Clues for processions in Bronze Age in the Central Mediterranean

Cult activities, i.e., ceremonies with various functions and meanings, and religious ideology in general, are difficult fields of investigation during the Bronze Age. The identification of places and practices of worship, including possible processions, as well as the interpretation of clear ‘religious’ or ‘mythological’ iconography are especially challenging topics. In the Italian Bronze Age, monumental sites exclusively devoted to cult activities are largely lacking.1 Several explanations can be put forward for this lack of evidence, starting with the lower degree of social complexity of the local communities in comparison with the palatial societies of the Eastern Mediterranean.