Power and Place in Etruria: Volume 1: The Spatial Dynamics of a Mediterranean Civilization, 1200-500 BC (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521380751)

This volume fills a gap in the study of an important, yet neglected case of state formation, by taking a landscape perspective to Etruria. Simon Stoddart examines the infrastructure, hierarchy/heterarchy and spatial patterns of the Etruscans over time to investigate their political development from a new perspective. The analysis both crosses the divide from prehistory to history and applies a scaled analysis to the whole region between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Arno and Tiber rivers, with special focus on the neglected region between Populonia on the coast and Perugia and the north Umbrian region adjoining the Apennines. Stoddart uncovers the powerful places that were in dynamic tension not only between themselves, but also with the internal structure constituted by the descent groups that peopled them. He unravels the dynamically changing landscape of changing boundaries and buffer zones which contained robust urbanism, as well as less centralized, polyfocal nucleations.

Author: Simon Stoddart
ISBN-10: 0521380758
ISBN-13: 9780521380751
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2020
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.75d