ABSTRACT
By about the 10th century BC the South-Italian landscapes looked quite different from what they had been in the Late Bronze Age (LBA). This observation holds especially good for the coastal strip of southern Apulia, Basilicata and northern Calabria where most of the major LBA settlements had been located. But first of all, it should be observed that the continuity of occupation between Bronze Age and Iron Age was strong. Most of the LBA sites - often with Early Bronze Age or Middle Bronze Age origins - continued to be inhabited during the Final Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. Important LBA sites such as Timmari, Scoglio del Tonno (Taranto) and Rocavecchia were also settlements of considerable importance during the Iron Age. LBA sites of probably secondary importance had a comparable settlement history and often survived into the Iron Age. 1
