Ritualità e trattamento del corpo nella Civilitàdi Golasecca: lo studio antropologico dei resti umani

This work aims to analyze, for the first time as a whole, all the anthropological data available relating to the Civilization of Golasecca in its chronological and geographical development, summarizing the aspects of the treatment of the body of the deceased and trying to type chronological and / or peculiarities territorial. The Civilization of Golasecca developed between the 9th and 4th centuries BC, in an area ranging from eastern Piedmont to central-eastern Lombardy and from Sopraceneri in the Canton of Ticino to the Po. The lack of a work of synthesis, the large territory and the great chronological interval affected by the presence of the Golasecca Civilization, the presence of contexts found throughout the nineteenth century both with reliability and with different documentation methods and the dispersion of materials up to now, in collections, museums and warehouses they have placed a limit on research. Therefore, this work proposes a synthesis of the available anthropological data and is the first of a series, aimed at investigating the Golasecca Civilization in its entirety in a multidisciplinary and homogeneous way.