Die Glasperlen des 8. und 7. Jhs. v. Chr. aus Verucchio (Emilia-Romagna, Italien).

Die monochromen Perlen und Augenperlen

Abstract

The presentation of glass beads from Verucchio, especially from recent excavations, serves to improve our knowledge of a often neglected genre of archaeological finds of the Early Iron Age in Italy. Glass beads of the 1st millennium B.C. are frequently listed as evidence of long-distance contacts, but are rarely studied and classified in detail. Autopsy or good photographic evidence is necessary for the correct evaluation of glass beads. Finally, the interest of analytical chemistry in this archaeological material is clearly increasing, without archaeological analyses and resulting questions to chemistry having been worked out. The present first part of the study, apart from presenting the monochrome beads and those decorated with dot or ring eyes, gives their comparative finding in Italy and beyond, and the state of research on glass chemistry, especially the colouring possibilities of the respective glasses. It becomes clear that certain bead forms remain restricted to the Bologna-Verucchio region, while others are scattered across Italy or also occur in the north-eastern adjoining central Europe. In a following contribution, the remaining bead types, their chronological occurrence and use in the graves will be discussed.