Crafts and the City Ceramic Production in Etruria at the Dawn of the Urbanisation (late 10th –mid 7th cent. BCE)
During the early Iron Age (late 10th – late 8th cent. BCE), the Mediterranean basin became host to a complex network of seafaring peoples from different parts of the Mediterranean. Dramatic changes in sociocultural complexity occurred around the central Tyrrhenian Sea, particularly in Etruria. This area, at the crossroads between the eastern and western Mediterranean, witnessed many important innovations leading to economic and social-political developments that brought the transformation of farming villages to the renowned city-states of the Orientalising period (late 8th – early 6th cent. BCE)... learn more