Etruscans Now The British Museum, London, UK 9-11 December 2002

List of papers and abstracts

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Architecture

 Edlund-Berry, I. - Traditional and Radical Views on Etruscan architecture: current research

Meyers, G. - Space and Sensibility: Archaic Etruscan Conceptions of Monumental Architecture

 Rathje, A. - Murlo, Images and Archaeology

 Winter, Nancy A. - Terracotta Roofing in Etruria, Corfu and Sicily: a Bacchiad family enterprise

 

Cities and settlement

 Bizzari, C. - Medieval settlements and Etruscan cities: man-made underground caves as an aid in the study of the layout of ancient cities

 Camin, L. and McCall, W. - The Romanisation of the Rural Complex of Podere Cosciano

 Ciampoltrini, G. and Firmati, M. - Il fabbro di Fonteblanda. Attività emporica e artigianale nel Tirreno settentrionale del VI secolo a C.

 De Puma, R., Togninelli, P. and di Gennaro, F. - Recent excavations at Crustumerium

 Firmati, M. - Nuovi dati sull'insediamento fortificato di Ghiaccio Forte nella Valle dell'Albegna

 Fontaine, P. - Le fortificazioni etrusche. Nuove scoperte archeologiche (1997-2001)

Rasmussen, T. - Etruscan pottery: in settlements and tombs

Rajala, U. - A Faliscan landscape? Settlement patterns and land use in south-east Etruria.

 Smith, H.W. - The Etruscan castellum: fortified settlements and regional autonomy in Etruria

 Steingräber, S. - The process of urbanization of the Etruscan settlements from the late Villanovan to the late Archaic period (end of 8th to beginning of 5th Century B.C.): presentation of a project

 Stoddart, S. - The impact of settlement archaeology on the understanding of the Etruscans

 Stopponi, S. - Recent Archaeological Investigations in Campo della Fiera at Orvieto

 Warden, G. and Thomas, M. - The Etruscan site of Poggio Colla

 Whitehead, J. – The Structure and Function of the Cistern at La Piana

 

Cultural identity

 Briggs, D. Nash, - Invisible trade: sea piracy and land-based slave trade in the history of Villanovan and Etruscan Italy and France from the ninth to the fifth centuries BC

 Capdeville, G. - Social Mobility in Etruria

Catacchio, N. N., Cardosa, M., and Guidetti, M. - The Etruscans of the Origins.  New data from the excavations of Sovana and Sorgenti della Nova Etruria Italy on the making of the Etruscan nation

 Gran Aymerich, J. and Gran Aymerich, E. - Les Etrusques en Gaule et en Ibérie: du mythe à la réalité des dernières découvertes.

 Izzet, V. - Winckelmann and Etruscan Art  

 Ridgway, D. - Damaratus now

 Small, J. - Hats off: the entry of Tarquinius Priscus into Rome?

 Van Der Meer, L. B. - Etruscan Origins

 

Funerary and Ritual studies

 Berrendonner, C. - The evolution of Etruscan society in the Hellenistic period: problems in the interpretation of the evidence

 Pieraccini, L. - Home is where the hearth is: the function of the Caeretan Brazier

 Serra Ridgway, F.R. - Late Etruscan Painting and Beliefs

Swaddling, J, and Prag, J. - The Seianti Project

 Turfa, J. M. - The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar and Modern Archaeological Discoveries

 Weber-Lehmann, C. - The evidence for the existence of wooden sarcophagi in early Etruria

 

Museum and institutional initiatives

 Briquel, D. - Etruscan Inscriptions in French Public Collections

 Christiansen, J. - The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. The Etruscan Collection Reconsidered

 Gaultier, F. - Le collezioni etrusche del Museo del Louvre: pubblicazioni, arricchimento, restauri, analisi e ricerche (1996-2001)

 Lubtchansky, N. - ICAR: a database for figured scenes in pre-Roman Italy

 Turfa, J. and Brownlee, A. - Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks and Romans. The Etruscan Gallery and Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Museum 2003

 

Music

 Holmes, P. - The Development of the Etruscan Lituus and Cornu

 Lawergren, B. - Etruscan musical culture and its wider Greek and Italian context

 

Mythology

 de Grummond, N. - A view of Etruscan and Praenestine Mythology

 Hostetler, K.L. - Serpent Iconography

 Paleothodoros, D. - Dionysiac Imagery in Archaic Etruria

 Rupp, W. - The Vegetal Goddess in the Tomb of Typhon

 Stevens, N. - Symbolic values of mythological representations on Hellenistic urns from Chiusi

 

Numismatics

 Vecchi, I. - Etruscan Numismatics: a notorious dating and identification problem

 Vismara, N. and Catalli, F. - Studies and publications in the numismatic field over the last five years

 

Regional reports

 Deuling, J. - Etruscan Studies in Australasia, 2002

 Soderlind, M. - Current Etruscology in Sweden

 

Ceramics, Technology and Workshop Production

 Berkin, J.M. - A Consideration of Bucchero Production in Northern Etruria: The Orientalizing Bucchero from the Lower Building at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)

 Gleba, M. - Textile Production in Protohistoric Italy

 Nagy, I. - Two West Coast mirrors

 Napolitano, F - Some considerations on the making and use of colours in Etruria during the Middle Orientalising period

 Perkins, P. - Bucchero in the collections of the British Museum

 Regter, W. - The earliest bucchero and metalwork

Toms, J. - Attribution study of Early Iron Age pottery from Tarquinia

 Towle, A. and Henderson, J.- Archaeometric evidence for the existence of an Etruscan glass industry?

 Van Kampen, I. - A Workshop of Stone Sculpture Production in South Etruria

Waiblinger, A. - Céramique Etrusque à figures rouges

 

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