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THE URBANISATION OF ROME AND LATIUM VETUS

This book focuses on urbanisation and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the fi rst millennium BC by analysing settlement organisation and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast to the traditional diff usionist view, which holds that the idea of the city was introduced to the West via Greek and Phoenician colonists from the more developed Near East, this book dem- onstrates important local developments leading to higher complexity, dat- ing to the beginning of the Early Iron Age, if not earlier. By adopting a multi-disciplinary and multi-theoretical framework, the book circumvents the old debate between exogenous and endogenous perspectives by sug- gesting a network approach that sees Mediterranean urbanisation as the product of reciprocal catalysing actions.

Francesca Fulminante is Supervisor and Visiting Fellow of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She is author of The Princely Burials in Latium Vetus and has excavated in Rome, Veii, Pompeii, Crustumerium, Gubbio and Broom (Bedfordshire).

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THE URBANISATION OF ROME AND LATIUM VETUS

FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO THE ARCHAIC ERA

FRANCESCA FULMINANTE McDonald Institute of Archaeology, Cambridge University

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