The volume collects contributions – most of them presented at a seminar organized in May 2021 for the postgraduate School in Archaeology, Universities of Udine, Trieste, Venezia – on Late Bronze Age hoards in Europe and the Mediterranean, from central and north-western Europe to south-eastern Alps, northern Italy and Late Mycenaean Greece. Towards the end of the 2nd millennium BC most of these regions were strongly interconnected, as a comparative survey of some transformative aspects of their depositional landscapes may suggest. Contexts and modes of deposition, fragmentation and scrap metal, association and composition of hoarded items are the main analytical categories applied at various degree of detail by the single contributors with the aim of explaining nature and function of the deposits and shedding light on the social practices implying deposition.
