terramara

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A form of terramare — Bronze Age lake dwellings and settlements of the Po valley in northern Italy, characterized by the presence of ammoniacal earthy deposit (black marl) in mounds.

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Meanings

nounterramara (countable and uncountable, plural terramaras)

plural terramaras

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of terramare.

    In one room there are, however, a few local collections from prehistoric graves and terramaras. The most interesting of these is a collection of objects found with an incinerated interment of the Iron Age at Sesto Calende.

    1890, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 497
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