Tracing the Transformation of Southern Italy in The Long Fourth Century BCE (Global Perspectives on Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology)

This book traces the transformations and developments in South Italy in the period from the late fifth century to the establishment of Roman political control in this area, the ‘long’ fourth century BCE.Tracing the Transformation of South Italy primarily focuses on dynamics within and among Italic communities in South Italy, but it also addresses transformations induced by entanglements with ‘Greek’/Italiote cities, connections with the wider Mediterranean world and encounters with the emerging power of Rome.The contributions present a new and multi-faceted picture for understanding the rapidly changing regional landscape at the threshold of “pre-Roman” and “early Roman” south Italy.This volume builds a new narrative of fourth-century south Italy based on the full breadth of archaeological evidence, rather than on later literary voices.It does so by combining research on various regions and by cutting across the compartmentalisation in the archaeology of south Italy, often based on reg