Municipality of the upper Sarno valley (Naples), where in 2000 an important suburban settlement was accidentally discovered during the works for the construction of the Poggiomarino / Striano wastewater treatment plant, frequented by the Middle Bronze Age (late 15th century century BC) up to the early stages of the 6th century BC. C.
This is the only known pile-dwelling site in this area, where important necropolises from the Iron Age were known, but no settlement related to them.
It was inhabited by a people of Oscan origin, the Sarrasti, and was definitively abandoned in the late orientalizing period, after having undergone some changes, because the population preferred the nearby cities of Pompeii and Nuceria, which were developing in that period.
The excavation campaigns, conducted on several occasions by multidisciplinary teams, revealed the advanced hydraulic knowledge possessed by the inhabitants of the site in such a remote age.
The village extended, in fact, for about 7 hectares on islets artificially obtained in a lagoon of the Sarno river, separated from each other by channels limited by wooden palisades, used both for water drainage and, the largest, as transport routes. and communication, also towards the coastal strip: the discovery of two oak canoes, one of which still with its load on board, testifies to this.
On the islets there were wooden huts, generally with a subrectangular plan, equipped with a double sloping roof and inside a hearth or a small domestic oven and, in some cases, outside, a larger oven used for the purpose productive.
In fact, they not only had a residential function, but were also intended for flourishing craft activities, which are well documented through the numerous objects found during the research, made of metal, bone, glass paste and amber and often found unfinished or unsuccessful. .
Today the wooden structures remain of the village, belonging to the houses, the canoes, the fences, etc .: elements generally subject to rapid deterioration that here, however, the presence of a water table, which led to the formation of an anaerobic environment, allowed to keep.
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