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Book SynopsisAnna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome. The cemetery materials provide rich insights into the emergence of the city-state in central Italy in the crucial period 900580 BC.
Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Cemetery studies and social reconstruction; 3. Southern Etruria, ancient Lazio and Campania in the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages; 4. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa; 5. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa. General anthropological and archaeological data; 6. Ritual biases and the overall reconstruction of individual role and status; 7. The basic units of the cemetery. The earliest phases: the South and North groups; 8. The North and South lineages; 9. Period III: changes in social structure and territorial setting as seen from cemetery evidence; 10. A comparison of the general Iron Age cultural process in ancient Lazio with the evidence of Osteria dell'Osa; 11. The overall cultural process in Etruria, Lazio and Campania in the light of the study of Osteria dell'Osa; 12. Conclusion.
