Table of Contents

• 1. Why Italy?; Elena Isayev, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Exeter
• 2. The ancient Veneti: community and state in northern Italy; Kathryn Lomas, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
• 3. Ligurians and Celts in north-west Italy; Ralph Haussler, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Osnabruck, Germany
• 4. The Archaeology of Picenum: the last decade; Corinna Riva, Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology, University College London
• 5. Etruria and the Etruscans: recent approaches; Vedia Izzet, Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Southampton
• 6. The Faliscans; Letizia Ceccarelli and Simon Stoddart, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University
• 7. Latium and the Latins: the Hinterland of Rome; Christopher Smith, Professor of Ancient History, University of St Andrews
• 8. The Samnites; Edward Bispham, Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Brasenose College, Oxford University
• 9. Ancient Campania; Mariassunta Cuozzo, Associate Professor of Etruscology and Italic Archaeology, Universities of Naples and Molise
• 10. Daunians, Peucetians and Messapians? societies and settlements in south-east Italy; Edward Herring, Lecturer in Classics, National University of Ireland, Galway
• 11. Romanisation: the end of the peoples of Italy?; Guy Bradley, Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

The first book in English to provide a detailed history of Italy’s non-Roman peoples through archaeology

Full detailed discussion of the latest archaeological discoveries and epigraphical research in Italy

The Introduction provides a substantial contextualisation showing how this new research relates to the wider picture of Italian history and archaeology

About the Author

Guy Bradley is Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University and author of Ancient Umbria (2000). Elena Isayev is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Exeter and author of Inside Ancient Lucania: Dialogues in History and Archaeology (2006). Corinna Riva is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London and co-editor of Debating Orientalization: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean (2006).

Reviews

A set of well-informed essays... ...the bibliographies at the end of each chapter...constitute a useful guide to the primary evidence for the areas and themes introduced. ... admirable (and well-indexed) collection). ... full of important material intelligently discussed. It will be essential reading for archaeologists and ancient historians at every level from undergraduate upwards.