Gaudo

A Chalcolithic cemetery site in Campania, Italy, with 3rd millennium BC rock-cut tombs; the type site of the Campanian Gaudo culture. The tombs produced up to 25 disarticulated skeletons each, and great quantities of highly burnished unusual pots, especially asymmetric straight-necked flasks (sometimes called askoi as they approximate the form of an askos). There were also cups, open dishes, lids, and double vessels. This group has with parallels with Central Italian Rinaldone. There are flint arrowheads and daggers; metalwork is rare, but some copper daggers and awls occur and a few small silver objects.

A cemetery site in Campania, southwest Italy, which has given its name to the local Copper Age culture of the 4th-3rd millennia bc. Gando sites are characterized by rock-cut tombs used for collective burial. Grave goods include abundant pottery — assymmetrical jars with strap handles sometimes called askoi (on analogy with the classical pottery form), double dishes linked by strap handles, and a variety of bowls and cups — and flint arrowheads and daggers; metalwork is rare, but some copper daggers and awls occur and one or two small objects of silver.