Crossing the Alps
Early Urbanism between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900-400 BC)
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2020
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-90-8890-962-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the urbanisation processes that took place south and north of the Alps during the early first millennium BC, highlighting the interactions between the different geographical areas.The 26 chapters included in this book provide a combination of theoretical and methodological insights into urbanisation processes, regional overviews, and up-to-date evidence from key archaeological sites.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
137fc/82bw
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1828 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8890-962-7 (9789088909627)
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Persons
Lorenzo Zamboni is Adjunct Professor at the University of Pavia, where he obtained his PhD in Archaeology with research on Spina. Since 2012 he has been co-director of the archaeological excavations at Iron Age Verucchio. His research covers a wide range of settlement, material, funerary, and theoretical aspects mainly concerning the human presence in Northern and Central Italy between the Final Bronze Age and the Roman period. Manuel Fernandez-Goetz is Reader in European Archaeology and Head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored ca. 200 publications and held visiting scholar positions at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Brown, among others. His main research interests are Iron Age societies in Central and Western Europe, the archaeology of identities, and conflict archaeology. He has directed fieldwork projects in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Croatia. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick is Full Professor and Chair for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the LMU Munich. She has directed several fieldwork and interdisciplinary research projects, including sites in Romania, Bavaria, Croatia, and Italy (Como). She was also co-speaker for the Munich Graduate School 'Distant Worlds', and PI of the LMU-based Research Unit 'Transalpine Mobility and Cultural Transfer'. Her research interests focus on the European Bronze and Iron Ages with a wide thematic and geographical scope.
Content
PART 1 - URBAN ORIGINS AND TRAJECTORIES ACROSS THE ALPS
Early Urbanism South and North of the Alps: An Introduction
Lorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernandez-Goetz and Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
Aspects of Urbanism in Later Bronze Age Northern Italy Mark Pearce
Urbanisation and Deurbanisation in the European Iron Age: Definitions, Debates, and Cycles
Manuel Fernandez-Goetz
From Genoa to Guenzburg. New Trajectories of Urbanisation and Acculturation between the Mediterranean and South-Central Europe
Louis Nebelsick and Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
PART 2 - EARLY URBANISATION PROCESSES IN NORTHERN ITALY
Verucchio: The Iron Age Settlement
Paolo Rondini and Lorenzo Zamboni
Archaeology of Early Felsina. The Birth of a Villanovan City
Jacopo Ortalli
Spheres of Consumption of Metalwork and Trans-regional Interactions at the Onset of the Urban Phenomenon in Northern Italy
Cristiano Iaia
Urbanism and Architecture in the Etruscan City of Kainua-Marzabotto: New Perspectives
Elisabetta Govi, Chiara Pizzirani and Andrea Gaucci
Relationships between City and Necropolis in Northeast Italy
Giovanna Gambacurta
The Proto-urban Phenomenon in Veneto: A Review of the Population Dynamics of the Settlement of Oppeano (Verona)
Massimo Saracino and Alessandro Guidi
Coazze near Gazzo Veronese, on the Fringes of Veneto and Etruria Padana, NE Italy
Alessandro Vanzetti, Matteo Bertoldo, Francesca Di Maria, Dario Monti, Luciano Salzani and Fabio Saccoccio
The Etruscan Settlement of Adria (Italy, Rovigo): New Data from the Excavations in Via Ex Riformati (2015-2016)
Simonetta Bonomi, Maria Cristina Vallicelli and Claudio Balista
Exploring Spina: Urbanism, Architecture, and Material Culture
Aleksandra Mistireki and Lorenzo Zamboni
The Hidden City: Reconstructing the Urban Structure of the Etruscan Harbour of Forcello di Bagnolo San Vito through Excavations and Non-invasive Methods
Rainer Komp, Tommaso Quirino and Marta Rapi
The Early Iron Age Protourbanisation along the Ticino River and around Como
Raffaele Carlo de Marinis and Stefania Casini
The First Results of Geophysical Prospections Using the ADS Method on the Proto-urban Settlement Site of Como, Spina Verde
Fabian Welc, Louis Nebelsick, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick, Ines Balzer, Alessandro Vanzetti, and Barbara Grassi
Bergamo and Parre during the Early Iron Age: Early Urbanism and the Alpine World
Raffaella Poggiani Keller and Paolo Rondini
PART 3 - EARLY URBANISATION PROCESSES IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Earliest Town North of the Alps. New Excavations and Research in the Heuneburg Region
Dirk Krausse, Leif Hansen and Roberto Tarpini
Centralisation Processes at the Fuerstensitz Princely Seat on Mount Ipf in the Noerdlinger Ries, Southern Germany
Ruediger Krause
Early Urbanism and the Relationship between Northern Italy and Bohemia in the Early Iron Age
Miloslav Chytracek
Vix: The Temptation of the City
Bruno Chaume
Bourges-Avaricum: A Western Example of a Princely Complex of c. 500 BC in Central France
Ian Ralston
The Early Iron Age Central Place at Most na Soci (NW Slovenia)
Sneza Tecco Hvala
The Duerrnberg Salt Metropolis: Catalyst of Communication and Complexity in La Tene Central Europe
Holger Wendling
PART 4 - CONCLUDING THOUGHTS AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
The Mediterranean at the Periphery of Urban Origins
Corinna Riva
Untold Riches of the Urban Form Central to the Pre-Roman European Experience
Simon Stoddart
Early Urbanism South and North of the Alps: An Introduction
Lorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernandez-Goetz and Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
Aspects of Urbanism in Later Bronze Age Northern Italy Mark Pearce
Urbanisation and Deurbanisation in the European Iron Age: Definitions, Debates, and Cycles
Manuel Fernandez-Goetz
From Genoa to Guenzburg. New Trajectories of Urbanisation and Acculturation between the Mediterranean and South-Central Europe
Louis Nebelsick and Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
PART 2 - EARLY URBANISATION PROCESSES IN NORTHERN ITALY
Verucchio: The Iron Age Settlement
Paolo Rondini and Lorenzo Zamboni
Archaeology of Early Felsina. The Birth of a Villanovan City
Jacopo Ortalli
Spheres of Consumption of Metalwork and Trans-regional Interactions at the Onset of the Urban Phenomenon in Northern Italy
Cristiano Iaia
Urbanism and Architecture in the Etruscan City of Kainua-Marzabotto: New Perspectives
Elisabetta Govi, Chiara Pizzirani and Andrea Gaucci
Relationships between City and Necropolis in Northeast Italy
Giovanna Gambacurta
The Proto-urban Phenomenon in Veneto: A Review of the Population Dynamics of the Settlement of Oppeano (Verona)
Massimo Saracino and Alessandro Guidi
Coazze near Gazzo Veronese, on the Fringes of Veneto and Etruria Padana, NE Italy
Alessandro Vanzetti, Matteo Bertoldo, Francesca Di Maria, Dario Monti, Luciano Salzani and Fabio Saccoccio
The Etruscan Settlement of Adria (Italy, Rovigo): New Data from the Excavations in Via Ex Riformati (2015-2016)
Simonetta Bonomi, Maria Cristina Vallicelli and Claudio Balista
Exploring Spina: Urbanism, Architecture, and Material Culture
Aleksandra Mistireki and Lorenzo Zamboni
The Hidden City: Reconstructing the Urban Structure of the Etruscan Harbour of Forcello di Bagnolo San Vito through Excavations and Non-invasive Methods
Rainer Komp, Tommaso Quirino and Marta Rapi
The Early Iron Age Protourbanisation along the Ticino River and around Como
Raffaele Carlo de Marinis and Stefania Casini
The First Results of Geophysical Prospections Using the ADS Method on the Proto-urban Settlement Site of Como, Spina Verde
Fabian Welc, Louis Nebelsick, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick, Ines Balzer, Alessandro Vanzetti, and Barbara Grassi
Bergamo and Parre during the Early Iron Age: Early Urbanism and the Alpine World
Raffaella Poggiani Keller and Paolo Rondini
PART 3 - EARLY URBANISATION PROCESSES IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Earliest Town North of the Alps. New Excavations and Research in the Heuneburg Region
Dirk Krausse, Leif Hansen and Roberto Tarpini
Centralisation Processes at the Fuerstensitz Princely Seat on Mount Ipf in the Noerdlinger Ries, Southern Germany
Ruediger Krause
Early Urbanism and the Relationship between Northern Italy and Bohemia in the Early Iron Age
Miloslav Chytracek
Vix: The Temptation of the City
Bruno Chaume
Bourges-Avaricum: A Western Example of a Princely Complex of c. 500 BC in Central France
Ian Ralston
The Early Iron Age Central Place at Most na Soci (NW Slovenia)
Sneza Tecco Hvala
The Duerrnberg Salt Metropolis: Catalyst of Communication and Complexity in La Tene Central Europe
Holger Wendling
PART 4 - CONCLUDING THOUGHTS AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
The Mediterranean at the Periphery of Urban Origins
Corinna Riva
Untold Riches of the Urban Form Central to the Pre-Roman European Experience
Simon Stoddart