Cetamura Del Chianti

Nancy Thomson de Grummond is M. Lynette Thompson Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at Florida State University, director of excavations at Cetamura del Chianti, and coeditor of The Religion of the Etruscans and Caere.

• List of IllustrationsForewordPreface and AcknowledgmentsAlbum of MapsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Early and Middle Etruscan Periods (Seventh–Fourth Centuries BCE) Bucchero PotteryA Ritual CreviceChapter 3. Late Etruscan Phase I (300–150 BCE) Two WellsThe Artisans’ QuarterStructure K: Making Brick and TileStructures B and C: Water Management and Textile ProductionStructure J: A Workers’ PlatformStructure N: Iron WorkingPottery: A TypologyArtifacts in the Artisans’ QuarterFauna and FloraConclusionChapter 4. Late Etruscan Phase II (ca. 150–75/50 BCE) Structures A, B, and DArtifacts from Structures A and BBuilding L: The Sanctuary of the Etruscan ArtisansVotive Features of Building LChapter 5. The Wells of Cetamura: From Etruscan to Roman Well #2 (Structure M), on Zone IIWell #1, on Zone IChapter 6. Roman Cetamura (ca. 50 BCE to Late Antiquity) The Settlement of a Roman VeteranBaths and ProductionThe Early Roman EmpireThe Later Roman EmpireChapter 7. Cetamura as a CommunityChapter 8. Cetamura after AntiquityAppendix. A Timeline of History for Cetamura del ChiantiNotesReferencesIndex

[Cetamura del Chianti is] a model introduction to a small site and to the scholarly task of drawing connections between the micro and the macro...Cetamura is a case study of an artisan community and its infrastructure that could usefully inform more exploration of this phenomenon in Etruria...this is a book and a site with much to offer. (Ancient History Bulletin) [A] well-written study on the small hilltop settlement of Cetamura del Chianti in central Tuscany...[Cetamura del Chianti] provides an excellent example of how the evolution of a small Etruscan community can be described and understood effectively based on several decades of systematic research and archaeological excavation...This book, worthy in a multitude of ways, offers new insights into large and complex issues, seen from the unusual but fascinating and precisely described perspective of a small community, strengthening a type of archaeological and cultural analysis which will surely benefit from further development in the coming years. (Antiquity) This volume presents evidence from Cetamura in an accessible manner. It is best suited for students new to Etruscan archaeology and helps to broaden the discipline’s scope by focusing on a non-elite, rural community. Moreover, this volume underscores the value of rigorous palaeobotanical research. (The Classical Review) [Cetamura del Chianti has] much to offer scholars, students, and the general public interested in the intersections of archaeology, history, material culture, and  science as it pertains to a unique settlement that flourished between 300 BCE and 300 CE in the Chianti countryside. (American Journal of Archaeology)