Iron Age Community of Osteria Dell''osa - A Study of Socio-Political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy

Klappentext Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site! the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa! near Rome. Zusammenfassung Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome. The cemetery materials provide rich insights into the emergence of the city-state in central Italy in the crucial period 900–580 BC. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Cemetery studies and social reconstruction; 3. Southern Etruria, ancient Lazio and Campania in the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages; 4. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa; 5. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa. General anthropological and archaeological data; 6. Ritual biases and the overall reconstruction of individual role and status; 7. The basic units of the cemetery. The earliest phases: the South and North groups; 8. The North and South lineages; 9. Period III: changes in social structure and territorial setting as seen from cemetery evidence; 10. A comparison of the general Iron Age cultural process in ancient Lazio with the evidence of Osteria dell'Osa; 11. The overall cultural process in Etruria, Lazio and Campania in the light of the study of Osteria dell'Osa; 12. Conclusion.

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• Autori: Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, Sestieri Anna Maria Bietti
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521103596
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10359-6
• Pagine: 284
• Serie: New Studies in Archaeology; New Studies in Archaeology
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria, mondo antico; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria; prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Italy, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology