Villanovann.adj.

1924 D. Randall-MacIver Villanovans & Early Etruscans 3 In the fifth century the Villanovans disappear as a recognizable people, stifled no doubt..by the dominant Etruscans who had settled beside them.

1957 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 733/2 The close cousinship of the Bolognese Villanovans and the Atestines is proved by the complete identity not only of the burial rite, cremation, but of the forms and details of their graves.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 438/3 During the first quarter of the 7th century an Orientalizing civilization..was superimposed on the Villanovan in Tuscany. The northern Villanovans of the Po valley..continued to produce a geometric art..as late as the last quarter of the 6th century.

1928 D. Randall-MacIver Italy before Romans v. 73 Villanovan helmets and girdles and Villanovan ossuaries..may be seen side by side with Hallstatt swords.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places (1932) ii. 55 It seems as if the primitive inhabitants of this part of Italy always burned their dead, and then put the ashes in a jar, sometimes covering the jar with the dead man's helmet, sometimes with a shallow dish for a lid, and then laid the urn with its ashes in a little round grave like a little well. This is called the Villanovan way of burial, in the well-tomb.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Oct. 1179/4 The Iron Age possessors of the material culture (or cultural material) conventionally known as ‘Villanovan’ ought at least to have been mentioned.