Campanian
The Campanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch (or, in chronostratigraphy: the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous series). The Campanian spans the time from 83.6 ± 0.7 Ma to 72.1 ± 0.6 Ma (million years ago). It is preceded by the Santonian and it is followed by the Maastrichtian.
National Archeologic Museum of Pontecagnano
With the systematic excavation of the necropolis started by Bruno D'Agostino in 1962, a new chapter of the ancient history of Campania has opened up. The vast necropolis, which, from the end of the 10th to the beginning of the 9th century BCE, were distributed around a large living space, are the most eloquent testimony of the expansion of Etruscan peoples in southern Italy in advance and then in conjunction with the process of Greek colonization of the coastal strip. The great center of Pontecagnano constitutes the most advanced point of that expansion and, at least since the end of the 6th century. a.C., had real urban characteristics. The considerable quantity of imported objects found in the funerary objects, both from the Greek and Eastern world and from the Greek and Italian ones, testify to its emporic function and cultural richness.