Laterza

A cemetery of rock-cut tombs near Taranto, southeast Italy, which has given its name to a local Copper Age culture of the 3rd millennium BC. The tombs were used for collective burial and contained grave goods including a few copper weapons, tools, and ornaments, bifacially worked flint arrowheads and a variety of decorated pottery bowls and cups, some of which appear to be ancestral to the Apennine pottery of the Bronze Age. Other Laterza burial sites are known; these include rock-cut tombs and stone cists and possibly megalithic tombs.

A cemetery of rock-cut tombs near Taranto in southeast Italy which has given its name to a local Copper Age culture of the 3rd millennium be. The tombs were used for collective burial and contained grave goods including a few copper weapons, tools and ornaments, bifacially worked flint arrowheads and a variety of decorated pottery bowls and cups, some of which appear ancestral to the Apennine pottery of the Bronze Age. Other Laterza burial sites are known; these include rock-cut tombs and stone cists and possibly megalithic tombs (certainly in use by the Proto-Apennine phase that succeeded Laterza). No settlements are known.