The Urbanization of Rome and Latium. From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era By Francesca Fulminante

https://www.academia.edu/2186062/The_Urbanization_of_Rome_and_Latium_From_the_Bronze_Age_to_the_Archaic_Era?rhid=37424924779&swp=rr-rw-wc-38081493&nav_from=817440be-b963-488e-b301-f28d5d647491 Italy during the first millennium BC by analysing settlement organisation and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast to 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 leading to higher complexity, dating to the beginning of the Early Iron Age, if not earlier. By adopting a multi-disciplinary and multi-theoretical framework, the book circumvents the old debate between exogenous and endogenous perspectives by suggesting a network approach that sees Mediterranean urbanisation as the product of reciprocal catalysing actions. Francesca Fulminante is Supervisor and Visiting Fellow of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She is author of The Princely Burials in Latium Vetus and has excavated in Rome, Veii, Pompeii, Crustumerium, Gubbio and Broom (Bedfordshire). ...