Middle Bronze Age culture of the Po Valley known for its pile-dwelling villages built on artificial terraced mounds, organized cremation cemeteries, and a structured agricultural economy.
Collapsed suddenly around 1150 BCE when all its settlements in the Po Valley were abandoned, a crisis roughly contemporaneous with the broader Late Bronze Age collapse in the eastern Mediterranean, leaving the Emilia plain largely depopulated for centuries.
The major modern Italian monograph on the Terramare culture, covering settlement patterns, economy, and the dramatic collapse around 1150 BCE. In Italian but the definitive reference.
Covers the Middle/Late Bronze Age of northern Italy and the Po Valley pile-dwelling settlements within the wider European picture.