Regional Pathways to Complexity : : Settlement and Land-Use Dynamics in Early Italy from the Bronze Age to the Republican Period / / Peter Attema, Martijn van Leusen, Gert Jan Burgers.

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• VerfasserIn: Attema, Peter,; Burgers, Gert Jan,; van Leusen, Martijn,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam Archaeological Studies ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 120 color plates

Synthesizing almost thirty years of Dutch archaeological research in central and southern Italy, this book discusses and compares settlement and land use patterns from the late protohistoric period to the late Roman Republic. Considering both social and environmental factors, the authors analyze the long-term progression of indigenous Bronze Age tribal pastoralist societies towards the complexity of urbanized Roman society. Drawing on a decade of collaboration between Dutch and Italian researchers, this exhaustive study will be of great interest to students and scholars of Mediterranean archaeology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Regional Settlement Dynamics of the Pontine Region -- 3. Regional Settlement Dynamics of the Salento Isthmus -- 4. Settlement Dynamics of the Sibaritide and its Hinterland -- 5. Centralization and proto-urbanization in the Bronze and Iron Ages -- 6. Rethinking early Greek - indigenous encounters in southern Italy -- 7. Indigenous Urbanization in the Archaic Period -- 8. Rural Infill, Urbanization and Roman Expansion -- 9. A Supra-regional Comparative Perspective -- Bibliographic references -- Index -- Colour plates