Emma Blake

Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book uses social network analysis to trace the origins of pre-Roman Italian peoples from their earliest exchange networks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 838g
• ISBN-13: 9781107063204
• ISBN-10: 1107063205
• Artikelnr.: 41081635

Autorenporträt

Emma Blake is Assistant Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She has published widely on prehistoric Italy, on such topics as monumentality, identity, space and spatiality, social memory, and culture contract. She has conducted fieldwork in Sardinia and co-directs the Marsala Hinterland Survey, in Sicily.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the problem of Italy's ancient peoples
2. Imports and specialized products in Italy in the recent and final Bronze Ages
3. Group identity in prehistory: theory, interactions, and social networks
4. The recent and final Bronze Age peninsular networks: assessing structure and cohesion
5. The northern networks from the Terramare to the Veneto
6. West central Italy: networks and neighbors
7. Marche, Umbria, and the Apennine Mountain muddle
8. Southern Italy: networks by land and by sea
9. Conclusions and aftermath.