Urbanisation of Etruria - Funerary Practices and Social Change, 700-600 Bc

Informationen zum Autor Corinna Riva is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London. A scholar of Iron Age Italy and the first millennium BC in the central Mediterranean, she is co-director of the Upper Esino Valley Survey Project. She is co-editor, with Nicholas Vella, of Debating Orientalization: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean and, with G. Bradley and E. Isayev, Ancient Italy: Regions without Boundaries. Klappentext Riva offers a reading of the socio-political transformations that led to the formation of urban centres in Tyrrhenian Italy. Zusammenfassung Through a close examination of burial ritual and the material culture associated with it! Riva traces the transformations of seventh-century elite funerary practices and the structuring of political power around these practices in Etruria! arguing that the tomb became the locus for the articulation of new forms of political authority. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The ancient city and Etruria; 2. A long process and rapid change; 3. Orientalizing: accessibility and transformation; 4. The transformation of funerary ideology; 5. The transformation of political authority; 6. The transformation of grave-goods; 7. Etruria and its urban Mediterranean network.

Product details

• Authors: Corinna Riva, Corinna (University College London) Riva, Riva Corinna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107428942
• ISBN: 978-1-107-42894-2
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory