The Iron Age Community of Osteria Dell'osa: A Study of Socio-Political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy

by Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri

Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome. The cemetery materials provide rich insights into the emergence of the city-state in central Italy in the crucial period 900-580 BC. Paying particular attention to the causes of variation in burials - ritual, gender, age, status - Dr Bietti Sestieri is able to develop...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521103592
• ISBN13: 9780521103596
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"