Power and Place in Etruria

Stoddart, Simon

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“…Between the beginning of the Iron Age and the Archaic Period, (southern) Etruria underwent a complex process of urbanization (see e.g., Stoddart and Spivey, 1990;Barker and Rasmussen, 1998;Rasmussen, 2005;Bonghi Jovino, 2005;Pacciarelli, 2001Pacciarelli, , 2010aRiva, 2010;Marino, 2015;Stoddart, 2017). Contrary to what occurred for instance in the nearby region Latium Vetus, such a scenario did not lead to the emergence of any centralized authority or any noticeable disruptions in the balance between the city-states (on this see e.g., Fulminante and Stoddart, 2012).…”

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Modelling terrestrial route networks to understand inter-polity interactions (southern Etruria, 950-500 BC)

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Fulminante

et al. 2019

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Ancient regional routes were vital for interactions between settlements and deeply influenced the development of past societies and their "complexification". At the same time, since any transportation infrastructure needs some level of inter-settlement cooperation to be established, they can also be regarded as an epiphenomenon of social interactions at the regional scale. Here, we propose to analyze ancient pathway networks to understand the organization of cities and villages located in a certain territory, attempting to clarify whether such organization existed and if so, how it functioned.To address such a question, we chose a quantitative approach. Adopting network science as a general framework, by means of formal models, we try to identify how the collective effort that produced the terrestrial infrastructure was directed and organized. We selected a paradigmatic case study: Iron Age southern Etruria, a very well-studied context, with detailed archaeological information about settlement patterns and an established tradition of studies on terrestrial transportation routes, perfectly suitable for testing new techniques. The results of the modelling suggest that a balanced coordinated decision-making process was shaping the route network in Etruria, a scenario which correlates well with the picture elaborated by different scholars using a more traditional technique.

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Modelling terrestrial route networks to understand inter-polity interactions (southern Etruria, 950-500 BC)

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Fulminante

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“…Pastoralism was probably an increasing feature of the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, although the degree of longdistance transhumance cannot be assessed from the data presented here. Urbanisation would have led to more intensive exploitation of the landscape, but, in its initial stages, this would have encompassed considerable local variation, both at a regional scale (less developed North Etruria vs intensive South Etruria vs intensive Latium vetus) and between individual cities as shown by the variation in the relationship between the urban centre and the degree of rural settlement (Stoddart, 2016). Tree crops accompanied the establishment of the first larger towns or cities after 3000 cal.…”

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“…Latium vetus (Fulminante, 2014), the distinct political zone of the Latins (and the off-centre central place of Rome that gave its name to the later Roman empire), was placed to the south of the Tiber and comprised an important volcanic province to the north with significant lowlands around the Pontine marshes to the south, collectively bordering the Apennine foothills to the east. Etruria itself (Stoddart, 2016) to the north of the Tiber is geopolitically divided at this scale into two zones, separated by the Albegna river. To the south, South Etruria is distinguished by primate cities in another volcanic province, which, even if they had distinctive political trajectories and territorial sizes, broadly shared an intensity of urbanisation.…”

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Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape ecology

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This paper compares changes in vegetation structure and composition (using synthetic fossil pollen data) with proxy data for population levels (including settlements and radiocarbon dates) over the course of the last ten millennia in Tyrrhenian central Italy. These data show generalised patterns of clearance of woodland in response both to early agriculturalists and urbanism, as well as the specific adoption of tree crops and variations in stock grazing. The results provide a comprehensive understanding of the development of the

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“…For the study regions chosen for this project, first-millennium bce urbanism has so far largely been investigated in relation to urban growth, state formation, power relations and structures with a focus upon the ruling elites (for example, Cruz Berrocal et al 2013;Stoddart 2016Stoddart , 2020Terrenato 2019). The establishment and intensification of religious cult, often materialised in the monumentalisation of sanctuaries (Potts 2016; Mira 2019), has been tied to collective participation in urban settings and, in the case of Iberia, explicitly to social cohesion (Mira 2019, 350-1).…”

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Citizenship and religion in the first-millennium bce Mediterranean: from Etruria to Iberia

Riva¹

2021

Archaeology International

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This short contribution summarises an impending research project that will be carried as part of the 2021–22 Distinguished Fellowship programme at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (University of Erfurt) within the research cluster Religion and Urbanity. The aim of the project is to contribute to a comparative understanding of first-millennium bce Mediterranean urbanism by focusing on citizenship, through the investigation of the archaeological record of ritual contexts in two selected regions: southern Tyrrhenian Etruria and southeastern Iberia. The project builds on recent research on comparative urbanism and the role of religion in urban life, from Greek history to interdisciplinary studies on religion. The particular focus will be to understand whether, and the extent to which, religion provided the conceptual and material space for expressing membership to the urban community or, in one word, citizenship.

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Power and Place in Etruria

Cited by 17 publications

References 133 publications

Modelling terrestrial route networks to understand inter-polity interactions (southern Etruria, 950-500 BC)

Modelling terrestrial route networks to understand inter-polity interactions (southern Etruria, 950-500 BC)

Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape ecology

Citizenship and religion in the first-millennium bce Mediterranean: from Etruria to Iberia

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