Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-roman Italy

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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. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of contributors List of maps, figures, and tables List of abbreviations Acknowledgements Maps 1 Communities and connectivities in pre-Roman Italy 2 Enchanted trade: technicians and the city 3 Metallurgy and connectivity in northern Etruria 4 Hephaestus’ workshop: craftspeople, elites, and bronze armour in pre-Roman Italy 5 Potters and mobility in southern Italy (500–300 BCE) 6 ‘The potter is by nature a social animal’: a producer-centred approach to regionalisation in the South Italian matt-painted tradition 7 Bronzesmiths and the construction of material identity in central Italy (1000–700 BCE) 8 The ‘Bradano District’ revisited: tombs, trade, and identity in interior Peucetia 9 Etruscan trading spaces and the tools for regulating Etruscan markets 10 A mobile model of cultural transfer in pre-Roman southern Italy 11 Mechanisms of community formation in pre-Roman Italy: a latticework of connectivity and interaction Epilogue: writing of connectivity at a time of isolation Bibliography Index