“…In central Italy, the work of Graeme Barker (1981) has been influential in transforming approaches to prehistory, introducing a strongly palaeoeconomic approach. For the later periods of central Italy, approaches have been more varied, offering alternative views of the importance of textual evidence and the linkage of art history and landscape (Ridgway, 1981;Spivey and Stoddart, 1990;Izzet, 1997;Barker and Rasmussen, 1998). In the south, similarly broad sweeps of the prehistoric past have been achieved, searching out broad trends that investigate interconnections between parts of -Italy as much as their individual identities (Malone, 1986;Whitehouse, 1992;Pluciennik, 1995;Hayden, 1998).…”