The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa
A Study of Socio-political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy

Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome.

Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri (Author)

9780521103596, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 December 2008

284 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.42 kg

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 a convincing picture of the late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Latium vetus in the wider context of southern Etruria and Campania.

1. Introduction
2. Cemetery studies and social reconstruction
3. Southern Etruria, ancient Lazio and Campania in the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages
4. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa
5. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa. General anthropological and archaeological data
6. Ritual biases and the overall reconstruction of individual role and status
7. The basic units of the cemetery. The earliest phases: the South and North groups
8. The North and South lineages
9. Period III: changes in social structure and territorial setting as seen from cemetery evidence
10. A comparison of the general Iron Age cultural process in ancient Lazio with the evidence of Osteria dell'Osa
11. The overall cultural process in Etruria, Lazio and Campania in the light of the study of Osteria dell'Osa
12. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Prehistoric archaeology [HDDA]