Formigine
Italian comune
Formigine (Modenese: Furméżen) is a town and comune in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. As of 2023, Formigine had an estimated population of 34,406.
History
Bronze Age
The earliest evidence of human occupation in the territory of modern-day Formigine dates to the Middle and Recent Bronze Age (c. 1550–1150 BC), with the Terramare settlement of Casinalbo. Of this settlement, its necropolis is particularly relevant. Being the most well documented Terramare funerary site to date, it has yielded more than 670 excavated burials and is estimated to have originally contained over 3,000 graves.
The Bronze Age settlement at Casinalbo was abandoned around 1150 BC as part of the wider collapse of the Terramare culture, a process that affected much of the central Po Valley and is linked to a combination of demographic, environmental, and socio-political factors.
Iron Age
During the Iron Age, the Etruscans populated the region, but did not establish any notable settlement, with only minor archeological findings in the region.
In the 4th century BC, the territory came under the control of the Celtic Boii, who settled in the southern Po Valley after displacing the Etruscans. Archaeological evidence suggests that the initial conquest was followed by a gradual integration between the Celtic newcomers and the surviving Etruscan communities before the Roman conquest.
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