Chiozza

A Neolithic settlement site in Emilia in northern Italy, of the later 5th or early 4th millennium BC. Structural remains are oval and circular pits. The pottery was square-mouthed and the term Chiozza is sometimes used for this type of pottery or its latter phase.

Neolithic settlement site in Emilia, northern Italy, of the later 5th or early 4th millennium be. The only structural remains were oval and circular pits, possibly the floors of sunken huts, but more probably storage pits. Pottery was of the square-mouthed type and indeed the term Chiozza is sometimes used as an alternative name for this type of pottery, or sometimes just for a later phase of it.