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In the footsteps of the Etruscans : changing landscapes around Tuscania from prehistory to modernity / Graeme Barker, Tom Rasmussen ; with contributions by Antony Brown [and ten others]

Barker, Graeme [Verfasser] ; Rasmussen, Tom [Verfasser] [1948-]

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xx, 382 pages)

British School at Rome studies

978-1-00-923001-8 ; 978-1-00-923002-5 ; 978-1-00-922997-5

 

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In the Footsteps of the Etruscans describes the archaeology of the countryside within a ten km radius of the small town of Tuscania near Rome, throwing light on the unrecorded lives of the generations of farmers and shepherds who have lived there. What was the character of prehistoric settlement prior to Etruscan urbanization? How did urbanization shape the lives of the 'ordinary Etruscans' working the land, hardly ever addressed in Etruscan archaeology? What was the impact on these people of being absorbed into the expanding Roman empire and its globalised economic structures? How did the empire's collapse and the subsequent emergence of the nucleated medieval village affect Tuscania's rural population? The project's 7500-year 'archaeological history', from the first farmers to those grappling with globalisation today, contributes eloquently to our understanding of how Mediterranean peoples have constantly shaped their landscape, and been shaped by it.