The transition from village communities to protourban societies

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ID20063095
AuthorsMarco Pacciarelli (0000-0002-8510-3652, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages561-580
Publication date2017-09-25
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEtruscology (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9781934078495-033
OpenAlexW2764105168
ISBN9781934078495
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In Italy, the research devoted to the origins o f the protourban centers in recent decades has clearly evidenced a rapid, profound and very early protourban reorganization began during the tenth century BCE in Etruria, the Veneto and other areas. The epicenter of this radical transformation-and also the best-studied area-is the southern part of Etruria (nowadays northern Latium). In this area, there is evidence of a very rapid change that happened in the tenth century, at the end of the Final Bronze Age. In the third phase of this period, more than ninety per cent of the preexisting villages disappeared in a short amount of time, at the same time as the formation of four very large (125-175 hectares) protourban centers, occupying plateaus thirty times larger than the average Bronze Age village. In a few generations, these large settlements became the historical Etruscan cities of Veii, Caere, Tarquinia and Vulci. In the interior of southern Etruria, we see the birth of two other large (80 hectare) settlements at the same time: Volsinii (Orvieto) and Bisenzio

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bronze Age · Geography · Human settlement · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History

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