The Urbanisation of Etruria
Funerary Practices and Social Change, 700–600 BC
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:28th Dec '09
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Riva offers a reading of the socio-political transformations that led to the formation of urban centres in Tyrrhenian Italy.
Through a close examination of burial ritual and the material culture associated with it, Riva traces the transformations of seventh-century elite funerary practices and the structuring of political power around these practices in Etruria, arguing that the tomb became the locus for the articulation of new forms of political authority.In this survey of the burial and settlement evidence of late Iron Age Etruria, Corinna Riva offers a new reading of the socio-political transformations that led to the formation of urban centres in Tyrrhenian central Italy. Through a close examination of burial ritual and the material culture associated with it, Riva traces the transformations of seventh-century elite funerary practices and the structuring of political power around these practices in Etruria, arguing that the tomb became the locus for the articulation of new forms of political authority at urban centres. Challenging established views that deem contact with eastern Mediterranean regions crucial to these developments, Riva offers a radically new interpretation of the so-called Orientalizing material culture, taking a long-term perspective on local changes and east-west contact across the Mediterranean.
ISBN: 9780521514477
Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 16mm
Weight: 670g
260 pages