<p>This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the relationships between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation is rooted in individual interactions.</p>
Author(s): Jeremy Armstrong, Sheira Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 376
City: London
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Contents
List of contributors
List of maps, figures, and tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Maps
1 Communities and connectivities in pre-Roman Italy
2 Enchanted trade: technicians and the city
3 Metallurgy and connectivity in northern Etruria
4 Hephaestus’ workshop: craftspeople, elites, and bronze armour in pre-Roman Italy
5 Potters and mobility in southern Italy (500–300 BCE)
6 ‘The potter is by nature a social animal’: a producer-centred approach to regionalisation in the South Italian matt-painted tradition
7 Bronzesmiths and the construction of material identity in central Italy (1000–700 BCE)
8 The ‘Bradano District’ revisited: tombs, trade, and identity in interior Peucetia
9 Etruscan trading spaces and the tools for regulating Etruscan markets
10 A mobile model of cultural transfer in pre-Roman southern Italy
11 Mechanisms of community formation in pre-Roman Italy: a latticework of connectivity and interaction
Epilogue: writing of connectivity at a time of isolation
Bibliography
Index
