La cultura del Rodano o rodaniana era una cultura archeologica della prima età del bronzo (2200-1500 a.C. circa) diffusa nella Francia sud-orientale e nella Svizzera occidentale, lungo il corso del fiume Rodano[1][2]. Questa cultura si è sviluppata dalla cultura locale del vaso campaniforme, forse con ulteriori migrazioni dall'Europa centrale.[3] Secondo Sergent (1995) la cultura del Rodano rappresenta una variante meridionale della cultura di Unetice. I manufatti in metallo e la ceramica della cultura del Rodano sono particolarmente simili a quelli del gruppo di Straubing in Baviera.[4][5]
L'ascia di Thun-Renzenbühl (1800 a.C. circa), rinvenuta vicino a Thun e attribuita alla cultura del Rodano, è uno dei primi esempi di tecnica agemina nel mondo[6][7]. La decorazione intarsiata d'oro sull'ascia potrebbe avere un significato numerico o astronomico.
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[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- ^ Paolo Piccardo, Metallographic investigation of Early Bronze Age armbands from Western Switzerland (ca. 2200–1500 BC): new highlights about early manufacturing processes, in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, vol. 12, n. 9, 2020, DOI:10.1007/s12520-020-01178-z.«Archaeological studies thoroughly describe the Rhone culture that extends between Eastern France and Western Switzerland along the Rhone River during the EBA (ca. 2200–1500 BC).»
- ^ Claude Mordant, Chapter 32: The Bronze Age in France, in Anthony Harding e Harry Fokkens (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age, 2013, pp. 571–593, ISBN 978-0-19-957286-1.«The Rhône culture, in its strictest sense, occupies the Franche-Comté, eastern Burgundy, the northern Alps close to the Swiss Plateau, and the Valais, but a wider definition of this entity could be said to cover the whole of the Rhône Valley, extending even beyond part of the Massif Central (Gallay 1996). The fact remains that certain types of metallurgy or particular characteristics of pottery thought of as ‘Rhodanian’ spread right across eastern and central France and the Rhône corridor. This highlights the significant impact of metal production, which used metal resources from the western Alps during the late part of the Early Bronze Age.»
- ^ Civilisation du Rhône, su Dictionaire Historique de la Suisse, 2009.
- ^ Barbara Ann Kipfer, Rhône culture, in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, Kluwer Academic, 2000, pp. 479, ISBN 9780306461583.«The Rhône culture is the Swiss and east French counterpart of the Early Bronze Age cultures of central Europe. The metalwork and pottery are similar to those of the Straubing group in Bavaria.»
- ^ Barbara Ann Kipfer, Straubing, in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, Kluwer Academic, 2000, pp. 538, ISBN 9780306461583.«Straubing: Early Bronze Age regional variant of the Unetice culture in Lower Bavaria, Germany.»
- ^ History Museum of Valais, Sion, su Musées Cantonaux du Valais, 2013.«The Rhone Culture originated from Central Valais and the Thun area ... The burial of Thun-Renzenbühl in the Bernese uplands, with its axe decorated with gold nails, allows us to draw parallels with the princely burials of Eastern Central Europe.»
- ^ Daniel Berger, Katja Hunger, Sabine Bolliger-Schreyer, Daniel Grolimund, Stefan Hartmann, Jan Hovind, Felix Müller, Eberhard Lehmann, Peter Vontobel e Marie Wörle, New insights into early bronze age damascene technique north of the alps, in The Antiquaries Journal, vol. 93, giugno 2013, pp. 25–53, DOI:10.1017/S0003581513000012.
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