Since its discovery in the 1960s, the Macchiabate necropolis of Francavilla Marittima in northern Calabria has been a key archaeological site when it comes to the encounter between the Greeks and the indigenous Iron Age cultures in southern Italy in the 8th century BC. 40 years after the end of the first excavation by the Italian archaeologist P. Zancani Montuoro, the University of Basel resumed the exploration of the burial ground with the aim of embedding the old excavations into a new basis and to shed new light on the beginning of the cultural exchange between the indigenous and the Greek actors of the migration process. In this volume, the results of the excavations from 2009 to 2016 are presented and located in terms of cultural history.