Padusa. Bollettino del Centro Polesano di studi storici, archeologici ed etnografici di Rovigo. Anno XXXIX, 2003

The Bullettin was founded in 1965 on a fourmonthly basis and later annual to publish the work of the members of the research centre of Rovigo and its collaborators. In successive years the subscribers of Padusa has grown both in Italy and abroad. This thanks initially to the discovery of the late Bronze Age settlement of Fratta Polesine and its cemeteries, whose artefacts show trade and cultural relationships with the mineral rich Etruria, central Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Padusa, later in the Eighties, partecipated in the topographic and archeological research in the central Eastern Po plain regarding its two most significant pre-modern periods: the Bronze and the Roman Age.
The journal now hosts articles by specificists from various research institutions, most notably those of archeology in Northern Italy (pre-Protostoric and Classical), however maintaining its links with the local reality from which is grow: the ancient area of the Po delta whose contacts with the Etruscan and Aegean world, after the settlement of Frattesina, are well documented at Adria and other sites in the territory of Polesine.
After Padusa, a formounthly newssheet has been introduced describing the activity of the C.P.S.S.A.E. and all the cultural activities notified to the centre, and a monographic series the "Padusa Quaderni" has published; the "Papers of the 1st National Congress of Archeozoology" (P.Q. n.1) and "The palafitta Settlement of Canàr of San Pietro Polesine (RO): archeo-environmental aspects" (P.Q. n.2).