Communicating identity in Italic Iron Age communities / edited by Margarita Gleba and Helle W. Horsns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gleba, Margarita.

Horsnaes, Helle W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron age--Italy.

Iron age.

Social archaeology--Italy.

Social archaeology.

Ethnoarchaeology--Italy.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Italy--Antiquities.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent archaeological work has shown that South Italy was densely occupied at least from the Late Bronze Age, with a marked process of the development of proto-urban centres, accompanied by important technological transformations. The archaeological exploration of indigenous South Italy is a relatively recent phenomenon, thanks to the bias towards the study of Greek colonies. Therefore an assessment of processes taking place in Italic Iron Age communities is well overdue. Communicating Identity explores the many and much varied identities of the Italic peoples of the Iron Age, and how specific

Contents:

Cover; Preface; Authors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Communicating Identity in Italic Iron Age Communities - and Beyond; 1. Communicating Identities in Funerary Iconography: the Inscribed Stelae of Northern Italy; 2. The 'Distaff Side' of Early Iron Age Aristocratic Identity in Italy; 3. Weaving, Gift and Wedding. A Local Identity for the Daunian Stelae; 4. Identity in the Tomb of the Diver at Poseidonia; 5. Communicating Identity in an Italic-Greek Community: the Case of L'Amastuola (Salento); 6. Family and Community: Self-Representation in a Lucanian Chamber Tomb

7. The Inscribed Caduceus from Roccagloriosa (South Italy):Image of an Emerging 'Political' Identity8. Hybridity and Hierarchy: Cultural Identity and Social Mobility in Archaic Sicily; 9. Wohnen in Compounds: Haus-Gesellschaften und soziale Gruppenbildungim frühen West- und Mittelsizilien (12.-6. Jh. v. Chr.); 10. Constructing Identity in Iron Age Sicily; 11. Constructing Identities in Multicultural Milieux: The Formation of Orphism in the Black SeaRegion and Southern Italy in the Late 6th and Early 5th Centuries BC

12. Greek or Indigenous? From Potsherd to Identity in Early Colonial Encounters13. Coinages of Indigenous Communities in Archaic Southern Italy -The Mint as a Means of Promoting Identity?; 14. Corfinium and Rome: Changing Place in the Social War; 15. Aspects of the Emergence of Italian Identity in the Early Roman Empire; Plates

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781842176368

1842176366

9781842176382

1842176382

OCLC:

831118184