The Caverzano Collection of The Arizona State Museum: Questions of Identity in the Iron Age Veneto

This thesis will consider the identity and ethnicity of the Veneto region in the Iron Age (800-400 BCE), an area historically understudied. Ethnicity, as an agglomerative concept of self-identification, is an especially intriguing consideration for a people who had to identify, erect, and maintain both fluid and fixed forms of identity in an area so thoroughly inundated with material and ideological trade. Examination of the Veneto region’s topography, organization, and role within the ancient world is of primary importance in discussing how identity and affiliation were expressed in the archaeological record without surviving written accounts. A case study of artifacts from the Caverzano necropolis will assist in providing funerary data from the Piave River valley and Belluno area.The inclusion of the Dana Estes collection from Caverzano in the Arizona State Museum prompts a discussion of why funerary data is both helpful and unhelpful for considerations of identity. While funerary contexts provide a space in which tradition and ancestor worship are paramount (thus displaying long-standing conceptions of identity), it is also the place where the display of new knowledge and wealth is first palpably discerned in archaeological contexts (thus displaying the fluid nature of identity). The purpose of this research, therefore, is to discuss how the Iron Age Veneto likely contextualized itself within the larger southeastern Alpine region and in what aspects the northern part of this region may have differed from the southern part. This project also seeks to contribute to the more localized discussion of the Caverzano necropolis, especially to the 1884 excavation in the locality of Font and the artifacts previously thought to be lost

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