The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some
cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and
northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute
such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures,
surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the
development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels,
fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology,
post-mortem C-sections in medicine, and more. In art, many
technical and iconographic developments, although they certainly
happened first in Greece or the Near East, are first seen in extant
Etruscan works, preserved in the lavish tombs and goods of Etruscan
aristocrats. These include early portraiture, the first full-length
painted portrait, the first perspective view of a human figure in
monumental art, specialized techniques of bronze-casting, and
reduction-fired pottery (the bucchero phenomenon). Etruscan
contacts, through trade, treaty and intermarriage, linked their
culture with Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, with the Italic tribes
of the peninsula, and with the Near Eastern kingdoms, Greece and
the Greek colonial world, Iberia, Gaul and the Punic network of
North Africa, and influenced the cultures of northern Europe. In
the past fifteen years striking advances have been made in
scholarship and research techniques for Etruscan Studies.
Archaeological and scientific discoveries have changed our picture
of the Etruscans and furnished us with new, specialized
information. Thanks to the work of dozens of international
scholars, it is now possible to discuss topics of interest that
could never before be researched, such as Etruscan mining and
metallurgy, textile production, foods and agriculture. In this
volume, over 60 experts provide insights into all these aspects of
Etruscan culture, and more, with many contributions available in
English for the first time to allow the reader access to research
that may not otherwise be available to them. Lavishly illustrated,
The Etruscan World brings to life the culture and material past of
the Etruscans and highlights key points of development in research,
making it essential reading for researchers, academics and students
of this fascinating civilization.
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