Table of Contents

1. The ancient city and Etruria; 2. A long process and rapid change; 3. Orientalizing: accessibility and transformation; 4. The transformation of funerary ideology; 5. The transformation of political authority; 6. The transformation of grave-goods; 7. Etruria and its urban Mediterranean network.

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Riva offers a reading of the socio-political transformations that led to the formation of urban centres in Tyrrhenian Italy.

About the Author

Corinna Riva is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London. A scholar of Iron Age Italy and the first millennium BC in the central Mediterranean, she is co-director of the Upper Esino Valley Survey Project. She is co-editor, with Nicholas Vella, of Debating Orientalization: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean and, with G. Bradley and E. Isayev, Ancient Italy: Regions without Boundaries.