Early Bronze Age burials
Inhumation
Late Bronze Age burials
Introduction of cremation in Po Valley
Iron Age burials
Cremation and biconical Urns
Iron Age inhumation cultures?
Greek colonies and Adriatic cultures
Iron Age language developments
40 different languages
Huge variation
Iron Age migration
Greek and Phoenician (8th-7th c)
Celtic (6th-5th)
Oscan (5th)
Who did the romans trace their ancestry to?
Romulus and Remus > Aeneas
The trojans
Key feature of the Iron Age
Cultural uniformity throughout Italy
Influences of Etruscan culture on the Romans
Dictators Kings holding fasces Priesthoods of haruspices and augurs Roman Kings Annual magistrates
Principle source type for very early Roman society (pre-500 BC)
Archaeology