NUOVE RICERCHE A SAN BASILIO DI ARIANO NEL POLESINE (ROVIGO). I RISULTATI DEL SURVEY 2018 NELL’AREA DEL SITO ETRUSCO

The paper focuses on the archaeological survey held together in San Basilio di Ariano nel Polesine by the University of Padua and the University of Venice. The survey activity was the first step of a new project based in S. Basilio, aiming at resuming the research in the Etrusco-Padanian site on the edge of the Po river delta. The site was discovered in the 1980s, but, after that time, the archaeological research stopped until these years. The new research project has multiple aims. Firstly, redefining the chronology: the site started in the first decades of the 6th cent. BC, and it was thought to be abandoned between the end of the 5th and the early 4th cent. BC. Secondly, providing a better understanding of the wooden structures and other features of the settlement, along with a new environmental reconstruction. Finally studying the relationship between Etruscans, Greeks and Venetic people living together in the site, and their connection with the Adriatic coast.