Broschiertes Buch

Crossing the Alps

Beschreibung

This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the urbanisation processes that took place south and north of the Alps during the early first millennium BC, highlighting the interactions between the different geographical areas.The 26 chapters included in this book provide a combination of theoretical and methodological insights into urbanisation processes, regional overviews, and up-to-date evidence from key archaeological sites. The latter comprise both well-established names such as the Heuneburg, Vix-Mont Lassois, Verucchio, Marzabotto, and Spina, as well as other sites that are less well-known but equally relevant for the understanding of centralisation processes during the Iron Age.In particular, this volume brings together, for the first time, the rich archaeological evidence for urban and proto-urban sites in northern Italy, a region that has traditionally been neglected or underestimated in accounts on Iron Age urbanisation. Thus, the book transcends previous barriers in scholarship and helps to readdress one of the most attractive topics of current archaeological research: the multiple and nonlinear pathways towards urbanisation.ContentsPART 1 - URBAN ORIGINS AND TRAJECTORIES ACROSS THE ALPSPART 2 - EARLY URBANISATION PROCESSES IN NORTHERN ITALYPART 3 - EARLY URBANISATION PROCESSES IN CENTRAL EUROPEPART 4 - CONCLUDING THOUGHTS AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

Autor

Dr. Lorenzo Zamboni is Adjunct Professor at the University of Pavia, where he obtained his PhD in Archaeology with research on Spina. Since 2012 he has been co-director of the archaeological excavations at Iron Age Verucchio. His research covers a wide range of settlement, material, funerary, and theoretical aspects mainly concerning the human presence in Northern and Central Italy between the Final Bronze Age and the Roman period.

Dr. Manuel Fernández-Götz is Reader in European Archaeology and Head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored ca. 200 publications and held visiting scholar positions at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Brown, among others. His main research interests are Iron Age societies in Central and Western Europe, the archaeology of identities, and conflict archaeology. He has directed fieldwork projects in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Croatia.

Prof. dr. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick is Full Professor and Chair for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the LMU Munich. She has directed several fieldwork and interdisciplinary research projects, including sites in Romania, Bavaria, Croatia, and Italy (Como). She was also co-speaker for the Munich Graduate School 'Distant Worlds', and PI of the LMU-based Research Unit 'Transalpine Mobility and Cultural Transfer'. Her research interests focus on the European Bronze and Iron Ages with a wide thematic and geographical scope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sidestone Press
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1573g
• ISBN-13: 9789088909610
• ISBN-10: 908890961X
• Artikelnr.: 60200284