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Archaeological site · Ariano Irpino (AV)

La Starza

  • Visit: about 1 h 30 min
  • 410 m
La Starza
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On the gypsum hill of La Starza, near Ariano Irpino, the oldest Neolithic settlement in Campania.

On a gypsum rise at about 410 metres in the Miscano valley lies the site of La Starza, considered the oldest Neolithic settlement in Campania. Close to a perennial spring and the Ariano saddle, the village was inhabited almost without interruption from the Early Neolithic to the Bronze Age, before being abandoned around 900 BC.Excavations have uncovered rectangular huts, arrowheads, axes, blades and pottery; the economy was agro-pastoral, based on sheep and goats. The site was identified at the start of the 20th century and investigated by the British School at Rome between 1957 and 1962, then by the Superintendency. We suggest completing your discovery at the Ariano Irpino Archaeological Museum, where many of the finds are displayed.

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