Ebook: A companion to the Etruscans

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Etruria -- Introduction -- Part I: History: beginnings / Simon Stoddart; Materializing the Etruscans / Skylar Neil; The Romanization of Etruria / Letizia Ceccarelli -- Part II: Geography, urbanization, and space: Etruscan Italy / Simon Stoddart; City and countryside / Simon Stoddart; The Etruscans and the Mediterranean / Giovannangelo Camporeale; Urbanization and foundation rites / Corinna Riva; Poggio civitate / Anthony S. Tuck; Southern and Inner Etruria / Claudio Bizzarri; Etruscan domestic architecture, hydraulic engineering, and water management technologies / Claudio Bizzarri and David Soren; Rock tombs and the world of the Etruscan necropoleis / Stephan Steingräber; Communicating with gods / P. Gregory Warden -- Part III: Evidence in context: Etruscan skeletal biology and Etruscan origins / Marshall J. Becker; Language, alphabet, and linguistic affiliation / Rex E. Wallace; Bucchero in context / Philip Perkins; Etruscan textiles in context / Margarita Gleba; Etruscan wall painting / Lisa C. Pieraccini; Votives in their larger religious context / Helen Nagy; Etruscan jewelry and identity / Alexis Q. Castor; Luxuria prolapsa est / Hilary Becker; Tanaquil / Gretchen E. Meyers; The Obesus Etruscus / Jean MacIntosh Turfa;This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classical worlds.