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This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most
respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical
anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women
in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine focusing
on a particular area, and also includes almost 200 images, maps,
and charts. The sections cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia,
Cyprus, the Levant, the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe, and
include many lesser-known cultures such as the Celts, Iberia,
Carthage, the Black Sea region, and Scandinavia. Women's
experiences are explored, from ordinary daily life to religious
ritual and practice, to motherhood, childbirth, sex, and building a
career. Forensic evidence is also treated for the actual bodies of
ancient women. Women in Antiquity is edited by two experts in the
field, and is an invaluable resource to students of the ancient
world, gender studies, and women's roles throughout history.
The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the
construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan
culture, and their place within the framework of a general history
of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Bronze Age
Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included
are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry -
or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well as the
archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book
challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars' fallacies
about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible
evidence of the Etruscans' seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic
dentistry.
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.
The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the
construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan
culture, and their place within the framework of a general history
of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Bronze Age
Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included
are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry -
or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well as the
archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book
challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars' fallacies
about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible
evidence of the Etruscans' seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic
dentistry.
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.
This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most
respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical
anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women
in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine focusing
on a particular area, and also includes almost 200 images, maps,
and charts. The sections cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia,
Cyprus, the Levant, the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe, and
include many lesser-known cultures such as the Celts, Iberia,
Carthage, the Black Sea region, and Scandinavia. Women's
experiences are explored, from ordinary daily life to religious
ritual and practice, to motherhood, childbirth, sex, and building a
career. Forensic evidence is also treated for the actual bodies of
ancient women. Women in Antiquity is edited by two experts in the
field, and is an invaluable resource to students of the ancient
world, gender studies, and women's roles throughout history.
The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens
foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek
translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian.
The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic
Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age
society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the
Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health, and
disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near
Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its
predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of
Etruscan society reaching back the before the advent of writing and
the recording of the calendar.
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