The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus: From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era

This book focuses on urbanization and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organization and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist view, which holds that the idea of the city was introduced to the West via Greek and Phoenician colonists from the more developed Near East, this book demonstrates important local developments towards higher complexity, dating to at least the beginning of the Early Iron Age, if not earlier. By adopting a multidisciplinary and multitheoretical framework, this book overcomes the old debate between exogenous and endogenous by suggesting a network approach that sees Mediterranean urbanization as the product of reciprocal catalyzing actions.

Author: Francesca Fulminante
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/10/2014
Pages: 428
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.00w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781107030350

About the Author
Fulminante, Francesca: - Francesca Fulminante is Supervisor and Visiting Fellow of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She is author of The Princely Burials in Latium Vetus and has excavated in Rome, Veii, Pompeii, Crustumerium, Gubbio and Broom (Bedfordshire).