In the Footsteps of the Etruscans
Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity
Published on 10. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
402 pages
978-1-009-22997-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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'[A] true benchmark in terms of methodological rigor and intellectual honesty.' Elena Pontelli, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 48 Tables, black and white; 24 Maps; 80 Halftones, black and white; 2 Line drawings, color; 50 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
930 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-22997-5 (9781009229975)
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In the Footsteps of the Etruscans
Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity
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Persons
GRAEME BARKER is Disney Professor of Archaeology Emeritus and a Senior Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow at St John's College. He has investigated the archaeology of human landscapes in semi-arid (Italy), arid (Libya, Jordan, Iraq) and tropical rainforest (Borneo) environments. He has published over twenty-five books and edited books and over 350 research papers. Holding Fellowships of the British Academy, Royal Geographical Society and Society of Antiquaries, he was awarded the Dan David Prize for the Past Dimension in 2005 and appointed CBE in the Queen's New Year Honours 2014 for services to archaeology. TOM RASMUSSEN is an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures at the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the author of Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria (1979), co-editor (with Nigel Spivey) of Looking at Greek Vases (1991, Greek translation 1997) and co-author (with Graeme Barker) of The Etruscans (1998, Italian edition Gli Etruschi 2006).
Content
1. The Tuscania archaeological survey: rationale, aims and objectives Graeme Barker and Tom Rasmussen; 2. Methodologies Graeme Barker, Tom Rasmussen, Alison MacDonald, Annie Grant and Nicoletta Vullo; 3. The natural landscape and its evolution Antony Brown, Claire Ellis and Edward Rhodes; 4. Prehistoric landscapes Graeme Barker, Francesco di Gennaro and Tim Reynolds; 5. Etruscan urbanization c.700-300 BC Tom Rasmussen, Marco Rendeli and Graeme Barker; 6. 'Romanization': the Roman republican period, c.300-30 BC Alison MacDonald, Jeremy Taylor and Annie Grant; 7. The roman imperial and late antique periods, 30 BC- c.AD 700 Alison MacDonald and Annie Grant; 8. Incastellamento and its aftermath: Medieval and post-medieval landscapes c.AD 700 to the present Helen Patterson, Graeme Barker and Tom Rasmussen; 9. A Mediterranean landscape from prehistory to modernity Graeme Barker, Tom Rasmussen and Nicoletta Vullo; Appendix one: the Tuscania Survey Etruscan coarse wares Tom Rasmussen and Marco Rendeli; Appendix two: the Tuscania Survey Gazetteer Tom Rasmussen, Graeme Barker, Alison MacDonald, Annie Grant and Nicoletta Vullo; Bibliography; Index.