Building up a middle Bronze Age fortification structure of the Terramara Culture in Montale using remakes of middle Bronze Age tools VIAS – Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science Wolfgang F.A. Lobisser

1. Wolfgang F.A. Lobisser
VIAS – Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science
Building up a middle Bronze Age fortification
structure of the Terramara Culture in Montale using
remakes of middle Bronze Age tools
Invited by: Museo Civico Archeologico Etnologico di Modena
Archaeological Open-Air Park Montale
Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science

2. Ground plan of the
fortified Bronze Age
settlement following
Prof. A. Cardarelli

3. Idealised graph of the Montale settlement, following A. Cardarelli

4. Andrea Cardarelli Ilaria Pulini
Museo Civico Archeologico Etnologico di Modena

5. Archaeological Park
And Open-Air Museum
Terramara Montale

6. Montale:
Inside the houses

7. Terramara di la Braglia:
Bronze Age fortification
With a gateway

8. Coppa
Nevigata
in Puglia:
Stone foundations
of a Bronze Age
gateway
with two
towers

9. Terramara
di Castione
Marchesi
Log cabin structures in the inner of the rampart
Excavation 1877

10. Ground plan
for the new
reconstruction
model of a
Bronze Age
gateway
in Montale
Draft:
A. Cardarelli et al.

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Remakes of Middle
Bronze Age tools

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Evolution of axe blades
from Late Neolithic times
up to the Early Iron Age

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Building material
Oak wood

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Log cabin structures

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The individual forms of the trunks
were marked out with compasses

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The half round recesses were formed with bronze axes

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Recesses on the upper ends of the blades
give stability in the knee-shaped handles

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Thickened ends on the blade sides of the handles avoid damage of the bindings

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Palisades of split oak trunks

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Palisades on both sides of the gate structure

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Remakes of Stone Age tools
Could bronze blades have been
used as well as adzes?

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Experimental result:
Bronze blades of the
Terramara Culture
can be used as adzes!

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The quite big bronze chisels of the Terramara Culture were very useful
to work out slots, mortices and recesses

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Construction of a double leaf gate

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Bringing the
heavy
door leaves
in position

32. The new Middle Bronze Age gateway model of Montale
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34. Thank you!