The culture was defined in 1967 by Francesco Biancofiore, following research in a necropolis of the same name situated to the north-west of the city of Taranto, in southern Apulia.
[4][5] Recent research of large sites, particularly near Rome and others in northern Campania, have extended knowledge of the homes of the culture.
In the necropoli di Selvicciola, a site in northern Lazio attributed to the Rinaldone culture, a jug of Laterza type was discovered.
[18] Laterza type decorations are also present in the ceramics of other localities of Central Italy,[19] for example at Maddalena di Muccia in Marche.
[20][21] In Osteria del Curato-via Cinquefrondi, on the periphery of Rome, a tomb was discovered which contained three different styles of pottery: Gaudo, Rinaldone and Laterza.