70. Southern Etruria

Zifferero, Andrea; Naso, Alessandro

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“…In the latter area, the number of rural sites increases twofold in the sixth century BC (Perkins 1999: 34), concurrent with the growth of a settlement at Doganella, five km from Marsiliana, which is interpreted as an amphora production and distribution centre (Perkins and Walker 1990). Most of these sites are difficult to date precisely, and only three farms have been well dated and excavated: Podere Tartuchino (Attolini and Perkins 1992), Poggio Alto near Marsiliana in the Albegna Valley (Zifferero 2010;Zifferero et al 2011) and Pian d'Alma near Vetulonia (Paribeni 2009). All three, established more or less contemporaneously in the late sixth century BC, show a pattern, once we consider them against Doganella and other coeval farms in Rome's hinterland, such as the Auditorium villa (Carandini et al 2007: 72-102;Morandini 2011: 82).…”

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Wine Production and Exchange and the Value of Wine Consumption in Sixth-century BC Etruria

Riva

2018

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This paper attempts to bridge the gulf between two often separate research agendas in Archaic period Etruria, one concerned with the archaeology of wine and agricultural production and redistribution, the other with figured representations of drinking and the associated symbolic visual language. It does so by examining the relationship between changing processes of production, consumption and exchange and the symbolism of drinking in the visual and material culture of sixth-century BC Tyrrhenian Etruria. In this analysis, I maintain that changing modes of agricultural production and distribution had an impact on such symbolism in elite funerary and domestic contexts, with key evidence also coming from sanctuaries. In particular, it is argued that during the seventh century BC, the visual language related to wine drinking alludes to experiences of bodily otherness; this is indicated by the symbolic correlation between accessibility to wine, the dangers of maritime travel and death. From the sixth century BC, we can trace a shift towards a visual language that centred on cultural difference or otherness: this is noticeable in the introduction of Dionysiac imagery and new mythological narratives of cross-cultural encounters, as well as a new emphasis on codified drinking and culturally differentiated drinking vessels. This shift is more or less contemporary with other changes, namely the production and distribution of 2 agricultural surplus in the Tyrrhenian region and beyond, and shifting values of objects in that exchange.

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Wine Production and Exchange and the Value of Wine Consumption in Sixth-century BC Etruria

Riva

2018

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“…A boundary area where oscillations in the extension of political control of specific Etruscan city-states conceal the complexity and changing nature of political relationships across the landscape is Monti della Tolfa (Figure 2). Rich in mineral resource and a topographical watershed between Tarquinia's and Cerveteri (Caere)'s territories, the area has been systematically explored through survey and excavation of a few settlements (Zifferero 1995;2000). After the abandonment of Final Bronze Age sites, the re-occupation of this area in the eighth century with the emergence of sites in strategic and defensive positions points to the control and exploitation of its mineral and woodland resources by competing social groups (Iaia and Mandolesi 2010).…”

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Connectivity Beyond the Urban Community in Central Italy

Riva¹,

Knapp²,

Dommelen³

2015

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean

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Two significant recent developments concerning the archaeology of Iron Age Central Italy call for a fresh analysis of settlement dynamics in the region and their relations vis-à-vis one another. The first development is the reconsideration of ancient urban centres as single entities and the need, which has mostly been advocated for the classical and later historical Mediterranean, to examine the systems or networks within which these centres functioned. The second development is the increasing amount of fieldwork-based research in those regions that have been situated at the margins of scholarly interest, partly because of their delay in urban development. New data from such research increasingly allow us to see the networks or systems that linked these regions to better-known ones on the Tyrrhenian coast. Such developments enable us to reassess the importance traditionally given to the core urban area of central Italy, and to offer a more balanced framework for understanding the exchange dynamics amongst Iron Age Central Italian communities. This chapter intends to do precisely that, and in so doing, its aim is twofold: first, to decentralise central Italy in line with studies on other Mediterranean regions that have similarly dispelled distinctions between core urban areas and non-urban peripheries; secondly, to shift attention away from evolutionary and other categories towards a perspective that stresses connectivity and patterns of human mobility.

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70. Southern Etruria

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Wine Production and Exchange and the Value of Wine Consumption in Sixth-century BC Etruria

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