The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa : A Study of Socio-political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy (New Studies in Archaeology)

Sestieri, Anna Maria Bietti

Cambridge University Press（2008/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 284 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521103596
• DDC分類 937.01

Full Description

Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome. The cemetery materials provide rich insights into the emergence of the city-state in central Italy in the crucial period 900-580 BC. Paying particular attention to the causes of variation in burials - ritual, gender, age, status - Dr Bietti Sestieri is able to develop a convincing picture of the late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Latium vetus in the wider context of southern Etruria and Campania.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Cemetery studies and social reconstruction; 3. Southern Etruria, ancient Lazio and Campania in the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages; 4. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa; 5. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa. General anthropological and archaeological data; 6. Ritual biases and the overall reconstruction of individual role and status; 7. The basic units of the cemetery. The earliest phases: the South and North groups; 8. The North and South lineages; 9. Period III: changes in social structure and territorial setting as seen from cemetery evidence; 10. A comparison of the general Iron Age cultural process in ancient Lazio with the evidence of Osteria dell'Osa; 11. The overall cultural process in Etruria, Lazio and Campania in the light of the study of Osteria dell'Osa; 12. Conclusion.