The National Archaeological Museum of Campli is directly linked to the nearby necropolis of Campovalano which, over some forty years of research, has yielded 610 burials from the Iron Age and the Romanisation period (9th-3rd century BC). With the help of graphic and environmental reconstructions, the exhibition illustrates the evolution of funerary ritual among a Praetutian people belonging to the Middle Adriatic or Picene cultural sphere. The oldest funerary monuments (Orientalising period) are characterised by large tumuli with stone circles similar to those of the Marche area, and by princely grave goods with weapons, bronze vessels of Etruscan tradition and the presence of the war or parade chariot. The female burials stand out for their extraordinary sets of bronze brooches (fibulae) with cowrie-shell pendants, bivalve bullae and necklaces of amber and glass paste. From the Archaic period to the period of crisis (4th-3rd century BC) we see a gradual, general impoverishment of the grave goods and all those cultural transformations marking the transition towards classical Roman culture.