Ancient Italy : regions without boundaries / edited by Guy Bradley, Elena Isayev and Corinna Riva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradley, Guy Jolyon.

Isayev, Elena.

Riva, Corinna.

University of Oxford. Department for Continuing Education.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italic peoples.

History.

Italy--History--To 476--Congresses.

Italy.

Italic peoples--History--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2007.

Summary:

Ancient Italy is the first English-language book to provide a detailed archaeological portrait of the pre-Roman peoples of Italy-the Ligurians and Celts, Veneti, Picenes, Etruscans, Faliscans, Latins, Samnites, the peoples of Campania, and the populations of Italy's southeastern regions.

Addressing themes in the study of the ancient world such as settlement and landscape, identity, religious and funerary ritual, as well as social and cultural interaction, Ancient Italy introduces each region and its communities, summarizes recent scholarship, provides site-specific maps and considers key issues in the regions' contemporary historiography.

An important tool for researchers working on the ancient Mediterranean, historians and archaeologists, this accessible volume provides a starting point for anyone interested in the peoples of ancient Italy.

Contents:

1 Why Italy? / Elena Isayev 1

2 The Ancient Veneti: Community and State in Northern Italy / Kathryn Lomas 21

3 At the Margins of Italy: Celts and Ligurians in North-West Italy / Ralph Haussler 45

4 The Archaeology of Picenum: The Last Decade / Corinna Riva 79

5 Etruria and the Etruscans: Recent Approaches / Vedia Izzet 114

6 The Faliscans / Letizia Ceccarelli, Simon Stoddart 131

7 Latium and the Latins: The Hinterland of Rome / Christopher Smith 161

8 The Samnites / Edward Bispham 179

9 Ancient Campania: Cultural Interaction, Political Borders and Geographical Boundaries / Mariassunta Cuozzo 224

10 Daunians, Peucetians and Messapians? Societies and Settlements in South-East Italy / Edward Herring 268

11 Romanization: The End of the Peoples of Italy? / Guy Bradley 295.

Notes:

"This volume had its origins in a conference on the 'Tribes of Ancient Italy' held in the Department of Continuing Education, Oxford."--P. [xiii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

085989813X

9780859898133

OCLC:

180880536