The Stone and Bronze Ages in Italy and Sicily

This highly illustrated work 1909 demonstrates the development of prehistoric society from the Stone to the Bronze Age in Italy.

T. Eric Peet (Author)

9781108082235, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 July 2019

544 pages, 281 b/w illus. 4 maps
21.5 x 14 x 3.2 cm, 0.6 kg

Eric Peet (1882–1934) is better known as an Egyptologist, but this, his 1909 first published work, remained the standard reference on its subject for many years. Gaining a Craven Scholarship from Oxford, he spent three years exploring Italian and Maltese sites, but later found work on Egyptian excavations (his co-authored publication on The Cemeteries of Abydos is also reissued in this series). This book is organised chronologically from the palaeolithic period to the Bronze Age, and, as Peet points out in his preface, pulls together not only his own research but the earlier work of Italian archaeologists, mostly published in scattered form in journals. From the finds in early cave shelters to the sophisticated metal and ceramic wares found in Bronze Age settlements and burials, this highly illustrated work demonstrates the development of prehistoric society in a region generally much better known for the later achievements of the Romans.

Preface
Introduction
1. The Palaeolithic period
2. Neolithic cave-dwellings
3. Neolithic hut-foundations
4. Neolithic burials
5. The Neolithic period in the islands
6. Neolithic material
7. Problems of the Neolithic period
8. Eneolithic dwellings and cemeteries
9. The Eneolithic period in the islands
10. Eneolithic material
11. Rock-tombs and megalithic monuments
12. Problems of the Eneolithic period
13. The early lake-dwellings
14. The terremare
15. Bronze Age hut-settlements and caves of north Italy
16. The Bronze Age in south Italy
17. The Bronze Age in Sicily and Sardinia
18. The racial problem
19. Mycenaean influence in Italy
Glossary of Italian words
Index to place-names
Index to plates.

Subject Areas: Prehistoric archaeology [HDDA]