This book takes an innovative approach to detecting regional
groupings in peninsular Italy during the Late Bronze Age, a
notoriously murky period of Italian prehistory. Applying social
network analysis to the distributions of imports and other
distinctive objects, Emma Blake reveals previously unrecognized
exchange networks that are in some cases the precursors of the
named peoples of the first millennium BC: the Etruscans, the
Veneti, and others. In a series of regional case studies, she uses
quantitative methods to both reconstruct and analyze the character
of these early networks and posits that, through path dependence,
the initial structure of the networks played a role in the success
or failure of the groups occupying those same regions in later
times. This book thus bridges the divide between Italian prehistory
and the Classical period, and demonstrates that Italy's regionalism
began far earlier than previously thought.
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