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Verona

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DEFINITION: City in northern Italy at the foot of the Lessini Mountains on the River Adige. The city was founded by an ancient tribe (possibly the Euganei or Raeti) and was later occupied by the Gallic Cenomani. It became a Roman colony in 89 BC and rapidly rose in importance because it was at the junction of main roads between Italy and northern Europe. There are two large gateways dating from 1st century AD, a theater, and the Arena, the third-largest surviving Roman amphitheater.

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Quinzano

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DEFINITION: A quarry near Verona, Italy, with several lower and middle Palaeolithic levels and a human occipital skull-bone of Neanderthal type. There was an open settlement of the Square-Mouthed Pottery Neolithic culture and a cemetery of crouched inhumations. The name Finale-Quinzano is sometimes given to a variant of square-mouthed pottery named after this site and Arene Candide.

Riparo Tagliente

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DEFINITION: Rock shelter in Italy's Verona region with Mousterian, early Aurignacian, and final Epigravettian (13,300-12,000 bp) material. The Epigravettian had animal and abstract engravings on stone.

Rivoli

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DEFINITION: A series of sites, including hilltop settlements, of Rivoli, near Verona in northeast Italy, which have provided the name for a version of the northern Italian Neolithic Square-Mouthed Pottery culture. As well as the characteristic pottery, the sites have produced pintaderas, and a fragment of copper -- early evidence of metal working in the area. There is also a medieval castle begun by Victor Amadeus II, king of Sicily and Sardinia, in 1712 on the site of an older structure.