Electa, 2000. Paperback. Very good softcover in printed wraps. 8vo.(6.3 x 0.39 x 9.45 inches) Page 35 has a marginalia note by the late Professor Peter Green. Rest of text free of marks or underlining. Color photos and illustrations. Includes a bibliography. 91 pp.

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ISBN: 9788843576401

This portion of the Museo Nazionale Romano unites a large body of archaeological evidence pertaining to the earliest phases of the culture that emerged throughout ancient Latium in the late protohistoric era (late Bronze Age, early Iron Age and Orientalizing period, 11th-10th centuries to the beginning of the 6th century B.C.). During this period, which coincides with the traditional date of Rome's foundation (mid 8th century B.C.), the communities of Latium were transformed from a type of tribal organization to early city-states.
The first part of the exhibition, on a general level, regards all of ancient Latium (the territory to the south of the Tiber River with its epicenter in the Alban Hills), in the context of the Tyrrhenian regions of the peninsula. Through studies of the archaeological materials, scholars have been successful in reconstructing the social structure, economy, religion, ideologies, territorial and political organization of this culture as well as its relationships with neighboring regions and its long distance communication network. In the period of time considered here, a profound transformation occurred among the communities of Latium, stimulated, in part, by contacts with contiguous areas: to the north, Etruria, a territory that was rich in metal resources and possessed a more advanced economic, social and political sys-tem; to the south, Campania, where the process of Greek colonization began in the 8th century B.C. with the foundation of a trade center on the island of Ischia (ca. 750 B.C.) and a colony in Cumae (ca. 730 B.C.).

The complex character and cultural development of the Latium culture is illustrated by the single centers that evolved in the territory of Rome.
This section, almost completely documented by recent archaeological research and excavations, is represented by the conglomerate, Osteria del-l'Osa-Castiglione, the area in which the Latin city of Gabii, and several other minor centers would rise: Castel di Decima, Acqua Acetosa Laurentina, Fidene, Crustumerium, and La Rustica. The development of Rome during these phases is illustrated in the Antiquariums of the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill.

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