The Urbanisation of Etruria: Funerary Practices and Social Change, 700-600 BC

by Corinna Riva

Book Overview

In this survey of the burial and settlement evidence of late Iron Age Etruria, Corinna Riva offers a new reading of the socio-political transformations that led to the formation of urban centres in Tyrrhenian central Italy. Through a close examination of burial ritual and the material culture associated with it, Riva traces the transformations of seventh-century elite funerary practices and the structuring of political power around these practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107428947
• ISBN13: 9781107428942
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.9"