ABSTRACT
Among the new lines of investigation there is the important work on emission spectrography carried out on Aegean Late Bronze Age pottery in the Research Laboratory at Oxford, and the archaeological conclusions that Dr Catling has been able to draw from it concerning trade and colonization. The long series of Mycenaean wares from LH III A to III C found, along with 'Peschiera-type' bronzes, at Scoglio del Tonno in the Gulf of Taranto, in spite of the absence of any controlled stratigraphy, is taken to date these bronzes also to the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries. Peschiera and Boccatura del Mincio placed chronologically between the Middle Bronze Age of Italy and the beginning of Proto-Villanovan urnfields are also geographically central, bridging the Mycenaean Mediterranean world and that of Europe in and over the Alps. The so-called 'Peschiera' bronzes at Scoglio del Tonno are at the best of times a very mixed bag.
