Earliest Italy
Subtitle: An Overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780306464638
Subjects: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Economic And Social Archaeology; Prehistoric Archaeology; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Ancient Rome; Italy; Ancient - Rome; Anthropology - General; Archaeology; History / Ancient / Rome; Social Science / Archaeology; Social Science-Anthropology - General; Social Science-Archaeology; Anthropology - Cultural; Penology; Antiquities; Mesolithic period; Paleolithic period; Social archaeology
First sentence: Italy might well be, in the poet's words, "the land where the orange tree blossoms;" nonetheless, in a geographical view, this Mediterranean peninsula is rooted in central Europe (Bethemont and Pelletier 1983).