Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy

This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the relationships between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation is rooted in individual interactions.

Autorentext

Jeremy Armstrong is Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient History at the University of Auckland, NZ.

Sheira Cohen is a PhD candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA) at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA.

Inhalt

1. Communities and connectivities in pre-Roman Italy; Sheira
   Cohen and Jeremy Armstrong; 2. Enchanted trade: technicians
   and the city; Christopher Smith; 3. Metallurgy and connectivity
   in northern Etruria; Seth Bernard; 4. Hephaestus' workshop:
   craftspeople, elites, and bronze armour in pre-Roman Italy;
   Jeremy Armstrong; 5. Potters and mobility in southern Italy
   (500-300 BCE); E.G.D. (Ted) Robinson; 6. 'The potter is by nature
   a social animal': A producer-centred approach to
   regionalisation in the South Italian matt-painted tradition;
   Leah Bernardo-Ciddio; 7. Bronzesmiths and the construction
   of material identity in central Italy, (1000-700 BCE); Cristiano
   Iaia; 8. The 'Bradano District' revisited: tombs, trade, and
   identity in interior Peucetia; Bice Peruzzi; 9. Etruscan trading
   spaces and the tools for regulating Etruscan markets; Hilary
   Becker; 10. A mobile model of cultural transfer in pre-Roman
   southern Italy; Christian Heitz; 11. Mechanisms of community
   formation in pre-Roman Italy: a latticework of connectivity
   and interaction; Sheira Cohen; Epilogue: writing of
   connectivity at a time of isolation; Elena Isayev.