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This book draws on the complementary fields of visual cultural studies and interpretative archaeology to examine how successive generations transformed their visual culture to construct themselves, exploring this process through an extended case-study of art and social life in prehistoric south-east Italy, between the Upper Palaeolithic and the Bronze Age. A central argument is that a wide range of visually communicative artworks were consumed and produced in the cultural process. Such objects range from portable artefacts, to installations within sites, to monumental structures in the landscape – all of which were interwoven with people’s bodies in the experiences of daily life and special performances. More specifically, it is argued that these powerful aesthetic objects were actively used by people across space and time to perceive the world around them and to reproduce their social lives. They helped people to establish personal and collective boundaries, identities and relationships, to acquire and exercise power, to promote ideologies, and to contest them, especially at times of social tension. ... Read more

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An analysis of the many facets of Etruscan Italy 1200-400 BC using archaeological evidence alone to see how and why the society emerged, flourished and died. ... Read more

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Combining a guide for the Museum visitor with scholarly discussions of all objects on display, this catalogue provides background on the society, history, technology, and commerce of the Etruscan and Faliscan cultures from the ninth through the first centuries B.C. Several groups of material illustrate social, historical, and technological phenomena currently at the forefront of scholarly debate and study, such as the crucial period of the turnover from Iron Age hut villages to the fully urbanized princely Etruscan cities, the development and extent of ancient literacy, and the position of women and children in ancient societies. Many special objects seldom found or generally inaccessible in the United States include Faliscan tomb groups, Etruscan inscriptions, helmets, and trade goods.

The catalogue presents and analyzes objects of warfare, weaving, animals, religious beliefs, architectural and terracotta roofing ornaments, Etruscan bronze-working for utensils, weapons, and artwork, and fine, generic portraiture. It discusses the symbolic meaning of such objects deposited in tombs as a chariot buried with a Faliscan lady at Narce, a senator's folding stool buried in a later tomb at Chiusi, and a pair of horse bits with the teeth of a chariot team still adhering to them where the teeth fell when sacrificed for a funeral in the fifth-century necropolis at Tarquinia—much later than the horse sacrifice was previously known in Etruria.

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Chapters: House of the Tragic Poet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The House of the Tragic Poet (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) is a typical 2nd century BC Roman house in Pompeii, Italy. The house, or villa, is famous for its elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology. Discovered in November 1824 by the archaeologist Antonio Bonucci, the House of the Tragic Poet has captivated scholars and writers for generations. Although the size of the house itself is in no way remarkable, its interior decorations are not only numerous but of the highest quality among other frescoes and mosaics from ancient Pompeii. Because of the mismatch between the size of the house and the quality of its decoration, much has been wondered about the lives of the homeowners. Unfortunately, little is known about the family members, who were likely killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Traditionally, Pompeii is geographically broken up into nine regional areas, which are then further broken up into insular areas. The House of the Tragic Poet sat in Regio VI, Insula 8, the far-western part of Pompeii. The house faced the Via di Nola, one of Pompeii's largest streets that linked the forum and the Street of the Tombs. Across the Via di Nola from the House of the Tragic Poet sat the Forum Baths of Pompeii. PlanLike many Roman homes of the time period, the House of the Tragic Poet is divided into two primary sections. The front, south-facing portion of the house serves as a public, presentation-oriented space. Here, two large rooms with outward-opening walls serve as shops run by the homeowners, or, less likely, as servants quarters. These shops lie on either side of a narrow entranceway, or vestibule. At the en...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11145369 ... Read more

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Chapters: Archaeology Museums in Italy, Biographical Museums in Italy, Historic House Museums in Italy, Natural History Museums in Italy, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Museo Nazionale Della Magna Grecia, Capitoline Museums, Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, National Museum of Rome, National Archaeological Museum, Ca' Vendramin Calergi, Museo Egizio, Naples National Archaeological Museum, Vittoriale Degli Italiani, Secret Museum, Naples, Museo Di Storia Naturale Di Firenze, Ca' D'oro, Villa Verdi, Pisa Charterhouse, La Specola, Porta San Paolo, Museum of Oriental Art, National Etruscan Museum, South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Museo Storia Naturale Di Pisa, National Museum of Oriental Art, Centro Per L'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography, Museo Civico Di Zoologia, Casa Guidi, Museo Civico Di Storia Naturale Di Milan, Civico Museo Di Storia Naturale Di Trieste, Turin Museum of Natural History, Museo Di Storia Naturale Di Venezia, Zoological Museum of Naples, Museo Di Scienze Naturali Enrico Caffi, Museo Civico Di Storia Naturale Di Genova. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia (National Museum of Magna Grecia), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria (National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria) or Palazzo Piacentini is an Italian archaeological museum in Reggio Calabria with an archaeological collection from sites in Magna Grecia. Initially formed with a nucleus of material ceded from the city's Museo Civico in the 19th century, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Magna Grecia then grew via many discoveries in various excavation campaigns in the ancient city-states of Calabria, Basilicata and Sicily by the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria ri...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20707293 ... Read more

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This book describes how the Romans succeeded in changing the culture of the ruling classes of the Italian Allies during the imperial age. Evidence for this is primarily found in the archaeological record, but Torelli includes in his analysis the literary tradition and epigraphical evidence. Adopting an anthropological perspective, special emphasis is placed on the religious values and cult traditions of the Romans and their unifying role. ... Read more

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This important publication brings together substantial holdings in two Departments at the British Museum: Greek and Roman, and Prehistory and Early Europe. Some 850 objects will be arranged chronologically from the Copper Age, through the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, and within these headings the objects will be arranged typologically, e.g. axes, swords, fibulae. A major result of this study and the scientific research carried out at the BM has been the reassembly of several groups of bronzes probably originally from hoards and graves. Each entry will include a description, comparanda and bibliography. The encyclopaedic nature of the collections means that this catalogue will stand as a vital handbook of the material. The authors are leading international scholars in Italian bronzes of these periods. ... Read more

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This volume of Medieval European Coinage deals with the coinage of south Italy, Sicily and Sardinia between the mid-tenth century, when Volume 1 ended, and the reign of Ferdinand the Catholic, on the threshold of the modern era. It thus covers very different coinages of the immediate pre-Norman period and those of the Norman, Hohenstaufen, Angevin and Aragonese dynasties that in turn ruled part or the whole of the Mezzogiorno. The complex background to the history of this region makes its coinages among the most interesting of medieval Europe. ... Read more

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The focus of the book is primarily on the ancient metal technology of South Asia but its not a technical treatise. ... Read more

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Papers from a conference held at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, in June 2006. Contents: 1) Where have all the men gone? Sex, Gender and Womens Studies (Ruth D. Whitehouse); 2) Gender identities and cultural identities in the pre-Roman Veneto (Kathryn Lomas); 3) Where are they hiding? The invisibility of the native women of Puglia in the fourth century bc (Edward Herring); 4) Warriors and weavers: sex and gender in Daunian stelae (Camilla Norman); 5) Expressions of gender through dress in Latial Iron Age mortuary contexts: the case of Osteria dellOsa (Lisa Cougle); 6) Textile tools and specialisation in Early Iron Age female burials (Margarita Gleba); 7) United in death: the changing image of Etruscan couples (Marjatta Nielsen); 8) Isnt s/he lovely? An investigation of androgyny in Etruscan art (Bridget Sandhoff ); 9) Gender Benders? (Larissa Bonfante); 10) Burning boats and building bridges: women and cult in Roman colonization (Fay Glinister); 11) Women and the Romanisation of Etruria(Vedia Izzet); 12) Ethnicity and the costume of the Roman bride (Karen K. Hersch); 13) Livia and the lex Voconia (Bronwyn Hopwood). ... Read more

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With one of the richest archaeological records and most complicated histories in the Mediterranean, Sardinia provides an important laboratory for studying the interaction of indigenous societies and outside forces in a partly isolated geographical context. Stephen L. Dyson and Robert J. Rowland, Jr. use both material culture and written documents to reconstruct the social and economic processes of an island society that showed both cultural creativity and continuity but responded to invasions from the Phoenicians through the Romans to the Aragonese.

This first accessible reconstruction of island archaeology provides a balanced picture of the sweep of Sardinian history.

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The variety, quantity and importance of Italy's archaeological remains have attracted tourists throughout centuries; from the Neolithic settlements on the Italian peninsular through the legacy of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans to the Holy Roman Empire, seeing these heritage sights became established as the "Grand Tour". With this colour book you can create the Grand Tour without leaving your armchair - or refer to it as a permanent record of Italy's ancient treasures. The text has been compiled by a group of young Italian scholars under the supervision of Furio Durando, an archaeologist and lecturer in the history of art. ... Read more

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Study of two settlements made by the Greeks in Sicily during the eighth and seventh centuries BC which brings together much information on this little known period.

The settlements made by Greeks in archaic Italy have largely been seen in terms of colonies duplicated from, and heavily dependant on, mainland Greece. The scarcity of the literary sources for this period makes the archaeological record crucial. Franco de Angelis makes use of both the archaeological and what literary evidence there is in reconstructing a history of Megara Hyblaia and Selinous, two settlements established by the Greeks during the late eighth and mid-seventh century BC. He looks at the existing environment and political setting the Greeks found when they arrived, the development of the settlements, including the extent of their territory and influence; society and politics, and environment and economy. Throughout, and emphasis is placed on the individual nature of the settlements and their development, based on the particular circumstances that existed in Sicily, rather than seeing them as copies of city-states on mainland Greece. ... Read more

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I haven't read the full book yet, but I do study under Dr. De Angelis at the University Of Calgary and the man is a genious.Anything he writes I'll be willing to read, he is articulate and at the same time, attempt to convey his ideas in a simple way as not to confuse the reader.If your into Greeco/Romano History and the expansion of the Greeks during the so called "Dark Ages", then buy this book!. ... Read more

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This case study rigorously investigates village spatial organization and vernacular architecture of the Early Neolithic village of Beidha in southern Jordan. Around 10,000 years ago, humans began to establish farming villages in a variety of settings across Southwest Asia. Yet the changes in community social organization associated with this fundamental economic development have remained largely unexplored. This volume reveals that fundamental changes occurred over time in the built environment. Individual households became more independent and public buildings were increasingly important venues for conducting community-wide activities that served to integrate the village. This study will be of interest both to Southwest Asian archaeologists and all those interested in how early villages were formed. ... Read more

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A Bonn thesis studying town gateways of the Republican period in Italy. Discussion with a detailed catalogue and some 270 illustrations, mostly photos. ... Read more

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During the Early Iron Age and the Archaic period, the central Mediterranean was the scene of revolutionary changes and rapid development within the various cultural entities of Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily. It was this region that saw Greek settlement in South Italy and Sicily, Phoenician colonization in Sicily and Sardinia, and the beginnings of trade and contact between the cultures of the region and those of the East, with a subsequent exchange of technology, material, and ideas. The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, it centres upon a database of imported material in the Italian peninsula, Sardinia, and Sicily dating from approximately 800 to 500 BC, which has been constructed in order to study trade in this region. The database upon which this work is founded stands at a little over 50,000 objects. Making a database of imported objects into the central Mediterranean region, and undertaking a study of the methodology dealing with the statistical problems of such an endeavour, is an attempt to rectify a few of the shortcomings of past scholarship. It is the basis for a re-examination of the problem of the beginnings of trade and contact. The second major intention of this study reflects the necessity to ensure that applied theory remains embedded in data, and the potential for Iron Age and Archaic data, if handled appropriately, to form a fertile theoretical bed. The primary purpose of this work is to expand the range, the transparency and the flexibility of data not only for the short-term reason of admitting new questions, but also with the longer view of strengthening the soundness of applied theory in this field. Over and above the evaluation of current ideas and the illumination of new ones, this study is an open demonstration of the utility of databases of archaeological material as a tool for further research. ... Read more