1st Edition
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
By Douwe Yntema
Copyright 2014
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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 nature into the enormous state currently indicated as the Roman Empire.,This volume is a case study... Read more
Preface, 1. Introduction: aim, concept and biases, 2. Foreigners and fortifications: bronze age preludes, 3. The land and the people, 4. Huts, houses and migrants: the iron age (c. 1000/950 - 600/550 BC), 5. Temples, poleis and paramount chiefs: the ‘archaic - classical’ period (c. 600/550-370 BC), 6. Towns, leagues and landholding elites: the early-Hellenistic period, c. 370/350 - 250/230 BC, 7. Peasants, princes and senators: southeast Italy at the periphery of the Roman world (c. 250/230 - 100/80 BC), Bibliography, Index
Biography
Douwe Yntema is professor of Mediterranean Archaeology and member of the Research Institute CLUE at the Vrij University Amsterdam , as well as fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
