The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus

From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era

Francesca Fulminante

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781107030350
• eBook ISBN: 9781107596443
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book focuses on urbanization and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organization and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist 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 demonstrates important local developments towards higher complexity, dating to at least the beginning of the Early Iron Age, if not earlier. By adopting a multidisciplinary and multi-theoretical framework, this book overcomes the old debate between exogenous and endogenous by suggesting a network approach that sees Mediterranean urbanization as the product of reciprocal catalyzing actions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• One Urbanisation and State Formation in Middle Tyrrhenian Italy: Historical Questions and Theoretical Models
• Two The Latin Landscape, Data and Methodology
• Three The City Level: Rome from a Small Bronze Age Village to the Great City of the Archaic Age
• Four The Territorial Level: Definition and Dating of the Ager Romanus Antiquus
• Five The Territorial Level: The Roman Hinterland from the Bronze Age to the Republican Period
• Six The Regional Level: Settlement Pattern Analysis in Latium Vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Age
• Seven Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Theoretical Approach to Urbanisation and State Formation in Latium Vetus
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index