Stranieri nei campi d'urne villanoviani

In some of the Urns cemetery of the Early Villanovan culture, we find some atypical inhumation tombs, often belonging to men with arms, another exceptional feature for this period. Analyzing the cases at Populonia, Caere and Pontecagnano, these abnormal burials do not seem to belong to marginal or lower status characters, as it happen elsewhere. This paper try to understand which reasons for this choice are and if the different rituals can be explained by the desire to assert an origin outside the community or a different role inside it. The processes of mobility that characterize the Tyrrhenian communities already by this stage glimpses into the openness and integration and sometimes even the acceptance of a foreigner leader, without fearing any menaces to their cultural integrity.