Montelabate Project

Field survey by Maurizio Matteini Chiari (in the late 1970s) and Gabriele Cifani in 2009 established the importance of this upland area. More recent field survey in September 2010 and excavation of the site of Col di Marzo in August 2011 has convincingly shown that the Etruscan frontier was established in the fifth-fourth century BC. A contrast can be drawn between the expansive political policy o  ...