Latium Vetus in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age / Il Latium Vetus nell'età del Bronzo e nella prima età del Ferro

This volume presents and analyses a catalogue of all 232 sites of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Latium vetus for which the location is known with certainty, including settlements, tombs, hoards and ritual loci. The catalogue is supported with an investigation of landscape chracter and changes. GIS and statistical techniques are used to identify tendencies and trends over time in the location of settlements, and the catalogued sites are submitted to a functional analysis on the basis of the availability of natural harbours, minerals and land with agricultural potential. The findings are interpreted in a substantial synthesis in English, which puts forward a model for the growth of social stratification in Bronze Age Latium Vetus, and the factors which contributed.