Regional pathways to complexity : settlement and land-use dynamics in early Italy from the Bronze Age to the Republican period / Peter Attema [and others]
Regional Pathways to Complexity; contents; preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Regional Settlement Dynamics of the Pontine Region; 3 Regional Settlement Dynamics of the Salento Isthmus; 4 Settlement Dynamics of the Sibaritide and its Hinterland; 5 Centralization and proto-urbanization in the Bronze and Iron Ages; 6 Rethinking early Greek -- Indigenous encounters in southern Italy; 7 Indigenous Urbanization in the Archaic Period; 8 Rural Infill, Urbanization and Roman Expansion; 9 A Supra-regional Comparative Perspective; bibliographic ref erences; Index; Colour plates
Summary
Synthesizing almost 30 years of Dutch archaeological research in central and southern Italy, this book discusses and compares settlement and land use patterns from the late protohistoric period to the late Roman Republic. Exploring both social and environmental explanations, as well as interregional parallellisms and divergences, the authors take a multi-scalar approach (from micro-regional to supra-regional) to the long-term development of Indigenous Bronze Age tribal pastoralist societies towards the complexity of urbanized Roman society. The culmination of a joint project conducted between
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-197) and index
