Complexity, Trade, and Death: Analysis of the shift in Burial Practices during the Late La T
Beginning around the middle of the second century BC, the La T
The tale of the sword
One of the most common myths relating to the use of swords of the Bronze Age (both flange-hilted and full-hilted) relates to the shortness of the hilt, which appears to be too small for practical use. Having now tried out several hundred swords I can reject this myth as unfounded.
The Greco-Roman Conception of the North from Pytheas to Tacitus
The article summarizes Greek and Roman knowledge of the farthest northern frontiers by providing a survey of principal sources for the researcher of classical antiquity, and the archaeologist.
Metals, salt, and slaves: Economic links between Gaul and Italy from the eight to the late sixth centuries BC
This paper discusses the role of metals, salt, textiles, and slaves in the development of networks of reciprocal exchange that interlinked the élites of Etruscan Italy and Early Iron Age Gaul between the eighth and sixth centuries BC.
Classical culture for a classical country: scholarship and the past in Vincenzo Cuoco
What is the place of the classical past and its study in Italy, a classical country whose roots reach back to antiquity, but has existed as an independent nation only since 1860?
Roman funerary commemoration and the age at first marriage
This paper offers a critical assessment of the debate about the customary age at first marriage of men and women in Roman Italy and the western provinces of the early Roman empire.