The Iron Age in South Italy: Settlement, Mobility and Culture Contact

Osanna, Massimo

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The Central Mediterranean and the Aegean

Foxhall

2018

The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age

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The early Iron Age in the Aegean has traditionally been perceived as a period of decline, in contrast to the splendour of the palatial societies of the later Bronze Age, and concomitantly is often presented as a ‘Dark Age’—a time of regionalism and isolation. Recent investigations across the Mediterranean region are, however, revealing a different and far more complex picture. A considerable amount of human and material interaction occurred between eastern and western Mediterranean societies in the period 1100–500 BC, and people, objects, and ideas were not travelling only in one direction. Links between so-called ‘Mediterranean’ and other European societies are also undergoing substantial re-evaluation. Adopting a regional approach, this chapter explores the developments which transformed Iron Age societies in the Aegean and central Mediterranean, and also examines how regional trajectories interlinked and converged through cross-cultural encounters, resulting in substantial material (including technological), social and political innovations.

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The Central Mediterranean and the Aegean

Foxhall

2018

The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age

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Widening horizons and close encounters: overseas engagement and economic outcomes in southern Italy

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2020

JGA

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This paper takes the first steps in a new direction on a much-studied theme, exploring how Late Bronze and Iron Age Italic societies in southern Italy, especially their elites, positioned themselves and operated within the wider networks through which they were connected. Here I will consider the economic consequences of engagement with these networks, with particular attention to the economic outcomes of interaction with Aegean visitors and cultures and the extent of their impact. I will argue that while the impact of interaction with Aegean culture was not insignificant, Italic elites may generally have been more concerned with and focused on local and regional interactions than on relationships with incomers from overseas and wider Mediterranean connectivity, even in the areas in which such engagement was most concentrated.

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The Iron Age in South Italy: Settlement, Mobility and Culture Contact

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The Central Mediterranean and the Aegean

The Central Mediterranean and the Aegean

Widening horizons and close encounters: overseas engagement and economic outcomes in southern Italy

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