The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa
The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa
A Study of Socio-political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri
December 2008
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Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome. The cemetery materials provide rich insights into the emergence of the city-state in central Italy in the crucial period 900–580 BC. Paying particular attention to the causes of variation in burials - ritual, gender, age, status - Dr Bietti Sestieri is able to develop a convincing picture of the late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Latium vetus in the wider context of southern Etruria and Campania.
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December 2008Paperback
9780521103596
284 pages
229 × 152 × 15 mm
0.42kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cemetery studies and social reconstruction
- 3. Southern Etruria, ancient Lazio and Campania in the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages
- 4. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa
- 5. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa. General anthropological and archaeological data
- 6. Ritual biases and the overall reconstruction of individual role and status
- 7. The basic units of the cemetery. The earliest phases: the South and North groups
- 8. The North and South lineages
- 9. Period III: changes in social structure and territorial setting as seen from cemetery evidence
- 10. A comparison of the general Iron Age cultural process in ancient Lazio with the evidence of Osteria dell'Osa
- 11. The overall cultural process in Etruria, Lazio and Campania in the light of the study of Osteria dell'Osa
- 12. Conclusion.
