C. Longhi1, C. Mangani2
1 Civico Museo Archeologico Di Bergamo, Italy
2 Civico Museo Archeologico "G. Rambotti", Desenzano Del Garda, Lecce, Italy

Forcello (Bagnolo S. Vito, Mantova) settlement, one of the most important Etruscan trading centres, has been investigated on a 600 sq.m. surface.
In area 'R18' the presence of 7 main phases has been recorded. These are marked with letters (A-G) and dated from the beginning of the 4th century BC until the second half of the 6th Century BC.
The porpoise of the present paper is 1. computerisation of paper records and data pertinent to phases F and G finds; 2. their management through a GIS software to test the advantages of a data processing analysis compared with the traditional method. During F phase a fire destroyed 2 houses separated by a canal; the GIS analysis of placing of elements, allowed us to confirm and improve the former hypothesis regarding use of the identified room collapse and placing of archaeological finds dynamics and their subsequent events.
Moreover, computerisation allows us to quickly handle a 20 digging-years data collection and to set up a starting point for the forthcoming researches adopting the new methodologies.
Key words: Northern Italy, Etruscan town, GIS, spatial analysis