Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Venezia

Mira, Parco delle Giare

Un sito produttivo dell’età del Bronzo a due passi dalla Laguna

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Abstract

This contribution details the discovery of a Bronze Age production site, uncovered during a public works project focused on the environmental redevelopment of a significant area overlooking the Venice lagoon in the municipality of Mira. The paper outlines the discovery’s progression, from the starting archaeological supervision to the subsequent in-depth stratigraphic excavations. It then describes the investigations carried out through ministerial funding and in collaboration with academic institutions, aimed at understanding and contextualizing the findings while the construction project was still in progress. Finally, it presents the current research efforts aimed at environmental reconstruction, clarifying (where possible) the productive aspects and identifying the potential associated habitation site.


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Submitted: July 10, 2025 | Published Dec. 17, 2025 | Language: it

Keywords Geophysical measurements • Preventive Archaeological Interest Verification (V • Bronze Age • Fired clay vessels • Pyro-technological structures • Core-samples analysis

Copyright © 2025 Cecilia Rossi, Vanessa Baratella, Michele Cupitò, Rita Deiana, Gaia Garosi, Marco Gervasutti, Alessandro de Leo, Paolo Mozzi, Sandra Primon, Giovanni Tasca. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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