How did exchange networks work during the Early Iron Age? Research on the interactions among Protohistoric societies is mostly focused on the elites and their ostentatious manifestations, exemplified by luxury imports and valued items. Indeed, during the first Iron Age – Hallstatt D –, exchanges substantially increased, thus promoting the rise of a dynamic system of long-distance network and enabling the dissemination of a wide range of raw materials and finished items across Europe. Partly linked with the growth of Mediterranean, Greek and Etruscan trade, these exchanges also favoured the dissemination of practices, symbols, as well as artistic manifestations across cultural boundaries. In this framework, because of the unusual nature of some of the imported artefacts, found away from their places of origin, studies on the subject have long been rooted to a “Mediterranean imports’ paradigm”, reducing the interactions to a mere prestige issue among Celtic, Italic and Mediterranean elites. However, this perception of the society hides a more complex reality, keeping ordinary people and their productions out of the picture. As illustrated by recent research in Northern Italy and France, the archaeology of interactions shall not be solely focused on a single class of objects, a single social class, or even a single cultural area, notwithstanding how rich may that be. To overcome these imbalances, the ITINERIS project focuses on daily objects (ornaments), their makers and dissemination patterns, adopting a strong continental and technological perspective. Thus, the characterization of Nord-italic bronze metalwork, a topic still poorly known, is the new paradigm structuring the investigation of cultural interactions and a multilevel model of the Protohistoric trade in the early Iron Age. The study of daily objects, features and technical traits, from both empirical and social perspectives, would lead to a contextualised understanding of artisanal, economic and cultural practices within a broader narrative about life-styles and (trans)-actions of European Iron age communities. Combining different methodological approaches used in Humanities, Physics, Chemistry and Computational Sciences, this project shifts the traditional paradigm pointing out the definition of metalwork traditions as a new key to a critical review of cultural interactions, emphasizing the role of artisans in Protohistoric transfers and their involvement in the process of cultural identity formation. Based on a wide dataset of bronze items from settlements belonging to three different cultural areas – Golasecca, Liguria and West Emilia – interacting with each other and involved in large-scale trade, this project will set out to rethink European interactions as a complex system of interconnected workshops operating at different social levels. It is a new reading of the social reality that is targeted by this global revision and socio-economic modelling of archaeological data; it is also the notion of import that is being tested here to deeply explore the social-cultural reasons that moved objects, practices, and fashion trends across Europe. Building on a technological approach and promoting an interdisciplinary analytic strategy, ITINERIS will be able to achieve a better cultural and anthropological understanding of Iron Age ancient societies, also taking part in the current debates on human mobility, and on dynamics of cultural integration and rejection.