Power and Place in Etruria: Volume 1 - The Spatial Dynamics of a Mediterranean Civilization, 1200-500 Bc

Informationen zum Autor Simon Stoddart is a reader in prehistory at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has taught at the Universities of York, Bristol, and Cambridge. Klappentext This book reconstructs political history from the spatial organization of ancient society, challenging the approach favored by classicists. Zusammenfassung This book will interest prehistorians! anthropological archaeologists! anthropologists! geographers! classicists and historians. Readers will discover an unexpected example of political history read from the spatial dynamics of settlement history. It will provide rich understanding of politics read from landscape without resorting to text or image. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Etruria; 2. Analysis of the spatial dynamics of state organised societies; 3. The Material constraints; 4. Contrasting hierarchies of settlement; 5. The spatial dynamics of settlement; 6. Five regions of contrast; 7. Networking and connectivity; 8. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Stoddart, Simon (Magdalene College Stoddart, Stoddart Simon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780521380751
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38075-1
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Archaeolo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Italy, Ancient World, Archaeology by period / region, Etruria, c 1000 BCE to start of CE period, BCE to c 500 CE