The Iron Age Community of Osteria Dell'osa: A Study of Socio-Political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy

Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Quarto in black cloth in orange and brown dust jacket; illus., maps; 271 p., 26 cm. Very good(++) copy in Very good(++) dust jacket. Dust jacket was previously protected mylar and flaps were taped down to boards; faintest edge wear to DJ; wear and light fading to boards; else tight copy; pages are crisp, clean, bright and free of marks; binding is tight and square. in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0521326281

In English. Series: New studies in archaeology. Contents: 1. 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.