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Informationen zum Autor Sinclair Bell is Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University. He is the co-editor of five other books, including New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome (2009 with H. Nagy), and is currently the reviews editor of Etruscan Studies: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation . Alexandra A. Carpino is Professor of Art History and Department Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University. The author of Discs of Splendor: The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans (2003) and several articles on Etruscan portraiture and mirror iconography, Dr. Carpino also served as editor-in-chief of Etruscan Studies: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation from 2012 to 2014. Klappentext This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classical worlds.* Includes contributions from an international cast of both established and emerging scholars* Offers fresh perspectives on Etruscan art and culture, including analysis of the most up-to-date research and archaeological discoveries* Reassesses and evaluates traditional topics like architecture, wall painting, ceramics, and sculpture as well as new ones such as textile archaeology, while also addressing themes that have yet to be thoroughly investigated in the scholarship, such as the obesus etruscus, the function and use of jewelry at different life stages, Greek and Roman topoi about the Etruscans, the Etruscans' reception of ponderation, and more* Counters the claim that the Etruscans were culturally inferior to the Greeks and Romans by emphasizing fields where the Etruscans were either technological or artistic pioneers and by reframing similarities in style and iconography as examples of Etruscan agency and reception rather than as a deficit of local creativity Zusammenfassung This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classical worlds. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations viii List of Tables xv Notes on Contributors xvi Acknowledgments xx Map of Etruria xxi Introduction xxii Alexandra A. Carpino and Sinclair Bell Part I History 1 1 Beginnings: Protovillanovan and Villanovan Etruria 3 Simon Stoddart 2 Materializing the Etruscans: The Expression and Negotiation of Identity during the Orientalizing, Archaic, and Classical Periods 15 Skylar Neil 3 The Romanization of Etruria 28 Letizia Ceccarelli Part II Geography, Urbanization, and Space 41 4 Etruscan Italy: Physical Geography and Environment 43 Simon Stoddart 5 City and Countryside 55 Simon Stoddart 6 The Etruscans and the Mediterranean 67 Giovannangelo Camporeale 7 Urbanization and Foundation Rites: The Material Culture of Rituals at the Heart and the Margins of Etruscan Early Cities 87 Corinna Riva 8 Poggio Civitate: Community Form in Inland Etruria 105 Anthony S. Tuck 9 Southern and Inner Etruria: Benchmark Sites and Current Excavations 117 Claudio Bizzarri 10 Etruscan Domestic Architecture, Hydraulic Engineering, and Water Management Technologies: Innovations and Legacy to Rome 129 Claudio Bizzarri and David Soren 11 Rock Tombs and the World of the Etruscan Necropoleis : Recent Discoveries,...
