The Iron Age Community of Osteria Dell'osa: A Study of Socio-Political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521103596)

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.

Author: Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri
ISBN-10: 0521103592
ISBN-13: 9780521103596
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2008
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.60d