The Golasecca culture begins developing in the…
909 BCE to 766 BCE
It takes its name from Golasecca, a locality next to the Ticino where, in the early nineteenth century, abbot Giovanni Battista Giani will excavated its first findings (some fifty tombs with ceramics and metal objects).
Remains of the Golasecca culture span an area of about twenty thousand square kilometers south to the Alps, between the Po, Sesia, and Serio rivers, dating from the ninth to the fourth century BCE.
Their origins can be directly traced from that of Canegrate and to the so-called Proto-Golasecca culture (twelfth to tenth centuries BCE).
The Golasecca culture trades with the Etruscans and the Halstatt culture on the north, later reaching the Greek world (oil, wine, bronze objects, ceramics and others) and northern Europe (tin and amber from the Baltic coast).
In a Golasecca culture tomb in Pombia has been found the oldest known remain of common hop beer in the world.
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Southwest Europe
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