Coppa Nevigata

Coppa Nevigata is a multi-period archaeological site on the Apulian coast of the Gargano peninsula in Foggia province, southern Italy. The earliest occupation dates to the Neolithic period, between the 7th and 5th millennia BC, when the site sat at the edge of a coastal lagoon with easy access to marine resources. During the Bronze Age, it developed into a significant fortified settlement with contacts reaching the Aegean world, evidenced by fragments of Mycenaean ceramics. The site provides early evidence for the extraction of purple dye from murex shells and olive oil pressing from the Protoapennine phase onward.