Caere Pieraccini, Lisa; de Grummond, Nancy Thomson
08/2016
eBook
The Etruscan city of Caere and eleven other Etruscan city-states were among the first urban centers in ancient Italy. Roman descriptions of Etruscan cities highlight their wealth, beauty, and ...formidable defenses. Although Caere left little written historical record outside of funerary inscriptions, its complex story can be deciphered by analyzing surviving material culture, including architecture, tomb paintings, temples, sanctuaries, and materials such as terracotta, bronze, gold, and amber found in Etruscan crafts. Studying Caere provides valuable insight not only into Etruscan history and culture but more broadly into urbanism and the development of urban centers across ancient Italy. Comprehensive in scope, Caere is the first English-language book dedicated to the study of its eponymous city. Collecting the work of an international team of scholars, it features chapters on a wide range of topics, such as Caere’s formation and history, economy, foreign relations, trade networks, art, funerary traditions, built environment, religion, daily life, and rediscovery. Extensively illustrated throughout, Caere presents new perspectives on and analysis of not just Etruscan civilization but also the city’s role in the wider pan-Mediterranean basin.
Etruscan architecture underwent various changes between the later Iron Age and the Archaic period. This book reconsiders these changes by focusing on the building materials and techniques used in the ...construction of domestic structures.
The subject of this chapter, Etruscans in Unexpected Places, highlights the assumption that there is a proper place and space for Etruscan objects, art, things and even discourse.¹ Broadly speaking, ...both the expected and unexpected norms of society’s collective imagination govern the ways in which we see and experience the world - and the past is no exception. In the case of an ancient culture like the Etruscans, their place is still very much an ongoing conversation in the general field of history, art history and archaeology.² This is due, in part, to the tightly structured classical curriculum which traditionally
Reviews a publication focused on the results of archaeological excavations conducted at the cemetery of Poggio Civitate in Murlo, Italy, "The necropolis of Poggio Civitate (Murlo) : burials from ...Poggio Aguzzo," by Anthony Tuck (Giorgio Bretschneider, 2009).
Cetamura as a Community de Grummond, Nancy Thomson
Cetamura Del Chianti,
01/2020
Book Chapter
The methodology for studying an Etruscan site as a community includes some of the same research questions as those used for a city. For both categories we make inquiries regarding the origin and ...development of the habitation, and how large the population was at its acme. Were there fortifications, and if so, of what type? What evidence is there for roads leading in and out of the settlements, and what kinds of connections do they establish? How was water provided? What kind of installations show religious activities, what kind of rituals are evident, and who are the gods? What kind
A wave of Etruscan travelers climbed the hill of Cetamura sometime in the fourth century BCE and liked what they found enough to decide to settle down there. The mount features a high zone, a small, ...flat plateau that has a sheer drop on one side and is easy to fortify on the other sides, and at least one lower zone, likewise flat but spreading out and offering more room for various needs of the community (see map 3). A freshwater spring emerged at the base of the hillside, about 200 meters down from the main zone. Beds of clay
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