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ISBN: 1-009-23001-8 , 1-009-22998-2

Series Statement: British School at Rome studies

Content: In the Footsteps of the Etruscans describes the archaeology of the countryside within a ten km radius of the small town of Tuscania near Rome, throwing light on the unrecorded lives of the generations of farmers and shepherds who have lived there. What was the character of prehistoric settlement prior to Etruscan urbanization? How did urbanization shape the lives of the 'ordinary Etruscans' working the land, hardly ever addressed in Etruscan archaeology? What was the impact on these people of being absorbed into the expanding Roman empire and its globalised economic structures? How did the empire's collapse and the subsequent emergence of the nucleated medieval village affect Tuscania's rural population? The project's 7500-year 'archaeological history', from the first farmers to those grappling with globalisation today, contributes eloquently to our understanding of how Mediterranean peoples have constantly shaped their landscape, and been shaped by it.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Oct 2023). , Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 The Tuscania Archaeological Survey: Rationale, Aims and Objectives -- Introduction -- Landscapes and Taskscapes -- Mediterranean Plough-Zone Archaeology -- Research Issues -- Etruscan Urbanization -- 'Romanization' and Roman Imperialism -- Medieval Settlement and Incastellamento -- The Selection of Tuscania -- Tuscania's Settlement Archaeology and History -- Tuscania's Neighbours -- The Physical Landscape -- Project Planning and Development -- Conclusion -- 2 Methodologies -- Introduction -- Defining the Study Area -- Sampling Strategy -- Site and Off-site/Non-site Archaeology -- Field-Walking -- Collecting -- Recording -- Classifying the Finds -- Analysing the Finds: Interpretative Issues -- Defining 'Sites' -- Settlement Densities -- Continuity or Discontinuity? -- Conclusion -- 3 The Natural Landscape and Its Evolution -- Introduction -- The Structural Components of the Landscape -- The Regional Palaeoenvironmental Record -- The Alluvial Stratigraphy of the Marta Valley -- Dating and Alluvial Chronologies -- Radiocarbon Dating -- Palaeomagnetic Dating -- Luminescence Dating -- The Regional Alluvial Record: Climate, People or Both? -- The Upper Marta: Natural or Artificial? -- Conclusion -- 4 Prehistoric Landscapes -- Introduction -- The Chipped Stone Collections -- Raw Materials -- Edge Conditions -- Typology -- Technology -- The Pottery -- Pre-Neolithic Activity ('Period 0') -- Transitions to Farming, c. 5500-3500 bc (c. 7500-5500 bp) -- Earlier Neolithic Settlement, c. 5500-4500 bc -- Later Neolithic Settlement, c. 4500-3500 bc -- Chalcolithic, c. 3500-2200 bc -- Bronze Age, c. 2200-950 bc -- Earlier Bronze Age Settlement, c. 2200-1400 bc. , Later Bronze Age Settlement, c. 1400-950 bc -- Early Iron Age, 950-700 bc -- 5 Etruscan Urbanization, c. 700-300 bc -- Introduction -- Etruscan Urbanization and Its Landscape Impacts -- Establishing Chronologies -- Pottery -- Tile -- Settlement Densities -- Settlement Distributions -- Tombs and Necropolises -- Landscape Histories -- Seventh Century bc -- Sixth Century bc -- Fifth Century bc -- Fourth Century bc (and Later) -- Landscape Engineering: Road Cuttings and Cuniculi -- Tuscania's 'Suburb': Site R14:13 -- An Etruscan Farm at Guidocinto (R24:19) -- Conclusion -- 6 'Romanization': The Roman Republican Period, c. 300-30 bc -- Introduction -- Methodologies -- Recording and Classifying the Roman Pottery -- Defining 'Sites' and 'Non-sites' -- Interpreting Densities -- Settlement Forms -- Grid Surveys -- Geophysical Surveys -- Regional Comparisons -- Settlement Patterns -- Settlement Trends -- Town and Territory -- The Socio-economic Landscape -- Conclusion -- 7 The Roman Imperial and Late Antique Periods, c. 30 bc-c. ad 700 -- Introduction -- Rural Settlement in the Early and Mid Empire (c. 30 bc-c. ad 260) -- Rural Settlement in the Late Empire and Late Antiquity (c. ad 260-c. 700) -- Site Histories -- Stability or Disruption in the Countryside? -- Town, Territory and Trade -- Changing Socio-economic Landscapes -- Conclusion -- 8 Incastellamento and Its Aftermath: Medieval and Modern Landscapes, c. ad 700 to the Present -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- Tuscania -- The Territory -- Classifying the Post-Classical Survey Materials -- Dating -- Generic Medieval (Eighth/Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries) -- High Medieval (Eleventh to Early Thirteenth Centuries) -- Late Medieval (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries) -- Post-Medieval (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) -- Modern (Eighteenth Century Onwards) -- Defining 'Sites'. , Changing Landscapes -- Generic Medieval (Eighth/Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries) -- High Medieval (Eleventh to Early Thirteenth Centuries) -- Late Medieval (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries) -- Post-Medieval (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) -- Modern (Eighteenth Century Onwards) -- From Incastellamento to Agriturismo -- 9 A Mediterranean Landscape from Prehistory to Modernity -- Introduction -- Tuscania's Landscape History -- Reflections on Methodologies -- Regional Comparisons -- The Tuscania Archaeological Survey and the Mediterranean Alluviation Debate -- The Tuscania Archaeological Survey and Mediterranean Landscape History -- Appendix I The Tuscania Archaeological Survey Etruscan Coarse Wares -- Appendix II The Tuscania Archaeological Survey Gazetteer -- Bibliography -- Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Barker, Graeme In the Footsteps of the Etruscans Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2023 ISBN 9781009230025

Language: English

Subjects: History , Geography

Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009230018