Poggio Civitate (Murlo) / / Anthony Tuck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Tuck, Anthony,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Cities and Communities of the Etruscans
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 115 b&w photos

Poggio Civitate in Murlo, Tuscany, is home to one of the best-preserved Etruscan communities of the eighth through the sixth centuries BCE. In this book, Anthony Tuck, the director of excavations, provides a broad synthesis of decades of data from the site. The results of many years of excavation at Poggio Civitate tell a story of growth, urbanization, ancient industrialization, and dissolution. The site preserves traces of aristocratic domestic buildings, including some of the most evocative and enigmatic architectural sculpture in the region, along with remnants of non-elite domestic spaces, enabling illuminating comparisons across social strata. The settlement also features evidence of large-scale production systems, including tools and other objects that reflect the daily experiences of laborers. Finally, the site contains the story of its own destruction. Tuck finds in the data clear indications that Poggio Civitate was methodically dismantled, and he posits hypotheses concerning the circumstances around this violent social and political act.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Cities and Communities of the Etruscans -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Plan 1: Poggio Civitate, Early Phas -- Plan 2: Poggio Civitate, Intermediate Phase -- Plan 3: Poggio Civitate, Archaic Phase -- Map of Tuscany -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Earliest Community of Poggio Civitate (Late Eighth Century BCE to the First Quarter/ Middle of the Seventh Century BCE) -- 3 The Lords of Piano del Tesoro: The “Orientalizing Period Complex” (ca. 675/650 BCE to the End of the Seventh or Beginning of the Sixth Century BCE) -- 4 Monumental Aspirations: Poggio Civitate’s Archaic Phase (ca. 600 BCE to Approximately 525 BCE) -- 5 Poggio Civitate: An Overview -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index