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1 online resource (1216 pages)
ISBN:
9781134055234
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Routledge Worlds Ser.
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The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology, post-mortem C-sections in medicine, and more. In art, many technical and iconographic developments, although they certainly happened first in Greece or the Near East, are first seen in extant Etruscan works, preserved in the lavish tombs and goods of Etruscan aristocrats. These include early portraiture, the first full-length painted portrait, the first perspective view of a human figure in monumental art, specialized techniques of bronze-casting, and reduction-fired pottery (the bucchero phenomenon). Etruscan contacts, through trade, treaty and intermarriage, linked their culture with Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, with the Italic tribes of the peninsula, and with the Near Eastern kingdoms, Greece and the Greek colonial world, Iberia, Gaul and the Punic network of North Africa, and influenced the cultures of northern Europe. In the past fifteen years striking advances have been made in scholarship and research techniques for Etruscan Studies. Archaeological and scientific discoveries have changed our picture of the Etruscans and furnished us with new, specialized information. Thanks to the work of dozens of international scholars, it is now possible to discuss topics of interest that could never before be researched, such as Etruscan mining and metallurgy, textile production, foods and agriculture. In this volume, over 60 experts provide insights into all these aspects of Etruscan culture, and more, with
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COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- MAPS -- INTRODUCTION: TIME TO GIVE THE ETRUSCANS THEIR DUE -- PART I: ENVIRONMENT, BACKGROUND AND THE STUDY OF ETRUSCAN CULTURE -- 1 ETRUSCAN ENVIRONMENTS -- 2 MASSIMO PALLOTTINO'S "ORIGINS" IN PERSPECTIVE -- 3 ETRUSCAN ORIGINS AND THE ANCIENT AUTHORS -- 4 FLESHING OUT THE DEMOGRAPHY OF ETRURIA -- PART II: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ETRURIA -- 5 THE VILLANOVAN CULTURE: AT THE BEGINNING OF ETRUSCAN HISTORY -- 6 ORIENTALIZING ETRURIA -- 7 URBANIZATION IN SOUTHERN ETRURIA FROM THE TENTH TO THE SIXTH CENTURY BC: THE ORIGINS AND GROWTH OF MAJOR CENTERS -- 8 A LONG TWILIGHT: "ROMANIZATION" OF ETRURIA -- 9 THE LAST ETRUSCANS: FAMILY TOMBS IN NORTHERN ETRURIA -- PART III: ETRUSCANS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS -- 10 THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BEFORE THE ETRUSCANS -- 11 THE NURAGIC HERITAGE IN ETRURIA -- 12 PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC SARDINIA AND THE ETRUSCANS -- 13 ETRURIA AND CORSICA -- 14 THE FALISCANS AND THE ETRUSCANS -- 15 ETRURIA ON THE PO AND THE ADRIATIC -- 16 ETRUSCANS IN CAMPANIA -- 17 ETRURIA MARITTIMA, CARTHAGE AND IBERIA, MASSALIA, GAUL -- PART IV: ETRUSCAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY -- 18 POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND LAW -- 19 ECONOMY AND COMMERCE THROUGH MATERIAL EVIDENCE: ETRUSCAN GOODS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD AND BEYOND -- 20 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN -- 21 SLAVERY AND MANUMISSION -- 22 THE ETRUSCAN LANGUAGE -- 23 NUMBERS AND RECKONING: A WHOLE CIVILIZATION FOUNDED UPON DIVISIONS -- PART V: RELIGION IN ETRURIA -- 24 GREEK MYTH IN ETRUSCAN CULTURE -- 25 GODS AND DEMONS IN THE ETRUSCAN PANTHEON -- 26 HARUSPICY AND AUGURY: SOURCES AND PROCEDURES -- 27 RELIGION: THE GODS AND THE PLACES -- 28 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR ETRUSCAN RELIGIOUS RITUALS -- 29 TARQUINIA, SACRED AREAS AND SANCTUARIES ON THE CIVITA PLATEAU AND ON THE COAST: "MONUMENTAL COMPLEX".
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ISBN 9780415673082
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415673082
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Englisch
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