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Etruscan civilisation

1200 BCE

PROTO-VILLANOVAN CULTURE 1200-900 BCE

A late Bronze Age civilisation existing just prior to the development of Villanovan culture, the oldest phase of Etruscan civilization.

Villanovan culture 900-750 BCE

Regarded as the first Etruscan civilization, they introduce iron working to the Italian peninsula and have burial rights involving cremation and ceramic urns. This is also the period that the city of

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