The archaeology of south-east Italy in the first millennium BC : Greek and native societies of Apulia and Lucania between the 10th and the 1st century BC /

Synthesizing some 30 years of archaeological research in south-east Italy, this book discusses a millennium that witnessed breathtaking changes: the first millennium BC. In nine to ten centuries the Mediterranean societies changed from a great variety of mostly small entities of predominantly tribal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yntema, Douwe Geert (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
Series:	Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 20.
Subjects:	Excavations (Archaeology) > Italy, Southern. Italy, Southern > Antiquities. Italy, Southern > Civilization. Social sciences. Social Sciences Sciences sociales. Fouilles (Archéologie) > Italie > Mezzogiorno. Mezzogiorno (Italie) > Civilisation. social sciences. Ancient history: to c 500 CE. Classical Greek and Roman archaeology. Landscape archaeology. Social Science / Penology. Antiquities Civilization Excavations (Archaeology) Southern Italy History, Art History, and Archaeology HIS Antiquity ANTIQ ARC Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : aim, concept and biases
Foreigners and fortifications : Bronze Age preludes
The land and the people
Huts, houses and migrants : the Iron Age (c. 1000/950-600/550 BC)
Temples, poleis and paramount chiefs : the 'Archaic-Classical' period (c. 600/550-370 BC)
Towns, leagues and landholding elites : the early-Hellenistic period, c. (370/350-250/230 BC)
Peasants, princes and senators : southeast Italy at the periphery of the Roman world (c. 250/230-100/80 BC).