Roca Archaeological Site

Roca Archaeological Site
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3000-1500 BC Bronze Age settlement on Italy's Adriatic coast, near modern Melendugno and Lecce. Excavated since the late 1980s by the University of Salento, it features the best-preserved monumental architecture of the Bronze Age in southern Italy [1]. The site also yielded the largest collection of Mycenaean pottery found west of mainland Greece [1].

TypeSettlement
Period3000 - 1500 BC
CountryItaly
Coordinates40.2877° N, 18.4264° E

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