Università Roma Tre

The course is for students that got the laurea triennale, trying to give them tools and methods to afford prehistory research projects in the framework of European prehistory and protohistory, and affords the argument of the formation of the Etruscan cities between the end of the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age.
This theme will be developed with particular attention to the geographic area occupied by the Etruscan Dodecapolis, between Tuscany and northern Lazio, trying at the same time to analyze the areas concerned already in the protohistoric age with its expansion, such as the Po Valley and Campania and will be carried out in connection with the master's degree course in Etruscology and Italian Antiquities in which the developments of this situation in the Orientalizing and Archaic age will be studied in depth.
The course includes both introductory lectures and seminars for attending students in which various case studies will be examined, also with the help of experts who will be invited to present the results of their research, organizing if possible also visits to museums and/or archaeological areas.

Bibliography (texts for exam)

M.Pacciarelli, Dal villaggio alla città, Firenze 2000, pp. 115-179; 236-250; 255-276.
D. Parisi, F. Cecconi, F. di Gennaro, A. Schiappelli, Protostoria virtuale in Etruria meridionale: simulazione della nascita dei centri protourbani, in Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria VI, Milano 2004, vol. II, pp. 553-560.
A.Guidi, Archeologia dell’Early State: il caso di studio italiano, in Ocnus 16, 2008, pp. 175-192.
T. Marino, Aspetti e fasi del processo formativo delle città in Etruria Meridionale costiera, in Le città visibili (seminario di Alghero 2014), Roma 2015, pp. 97-141.
S. Santocchini Gerg, Felsina villanoviana: “città visibile”. Strategie insediative tra Bronzo Finale e Primo Ferro, in Le città visibili (seminario di Alghero 2014), Roma 2015, pp. 13-58.
A. Gobbi, Formazioni protourbane in Campania. Considerazioni tra Pontecagnano e Capua, in Le città visibili (seminario di Alghero 2014), Roma 2015, pp. 181-224.
G.Sassatelli, Noterelle su Felsina, in Archeologia Classica LXVI, 2015, pp. 407-415.
J.Ortalli, Altre noterelle su Felsina, in Thiasos 5, 2016, pp. 17-32.





Not attending students

These students must study also chapters on protohistory of central Italy (specially Latium) in the following handbook:
A.M.Bietti Sestieri, L’Italia nell’età del bronzo e nell’età del ferro, Roma 2010.