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The extent to which an archeological culture is representative of a particular cohesive ancient group of people is open for debate; many of these cultures may be the product of a single ancient Italian tribe or civilization (e.g. Latial culture), while others may have been spread among different groups of ancient Italian peoples and even ...
Italy is considered one of the birthplaces of Western civilization [2] and a cultural superpower. [12] Italian culture is the culture of the Italians, a Romance ethnic group, and is incredibly diverse spanning the entirety of the Italian peninsula and the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.
The Sardinian Cavalcade (Italian: Cavalcata sarda) is an ancient cultural and traditional event that takes place in Sassari, usually on the penultimate Sunday of May, which consists of the parade on foot, on horseback or on the traccas (the characteristic floats decorated with flowers and everyday objects), of groups from all over Sardinia. [180]
Main Italian cultures of the Copper Age. During the Copper Age, at the same time that metalworking appeared, Indo-European speaking peoples are believed to have migrated to Italy in several waves. [3] Associated with this migration are the Remedello culture and Rinaldone culture in Northern and Central Italy, and the Gaudo culture of Southern ...
Italian Fascism is based upon Italian nationalism and in particular, seeks to complete what it considers as the incomplete project of Risorgimento by incorporating Italia Irredenta (unredeemed Italy) into the state of Italy. [186] [187] To the east of Italy, the Fascists claimed that Dalmatia was a land of Italian culture. [188]
This evidence takes the form of glass and amber necklaces for women, armor and horse harness fittings of bronze, and the development of elite graves in contrast to the earlier egalitarian culture. [10] Chamber tombs and inhumation (burial) practices were developed side-by-side with the earlier cremation practices.
An ancient village in Sicily is nestled largely inside a cave -- in a natural opening between two rocky mountains. ... Ancient village hidden in Italian cave. Updated May 9, 2019 at 3:34 PM.
The material culture of the Latins, known as the Latial culture, was a distinctive subset of the proto-Villanovan culture that appeared in parts of the Italian peninsula in the first half of the 12th century BC. The Latins maintained close culturo-religious relations until they were definitively united politically under Rome in 338 BC, and for ...