THE
MUTE
STONES
SPEAK
THE STORY
OF
ARCHAEOLOGY
IN
ITALY
PAUL MacKENDRICK
ST MARTIN’S PRESS · NEW YORK
Copyright © 1960 by Paul MacKendrick
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-8767
Manufactured in the United States of America
By H. Wolff, New York
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TO MY WIFE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book owes much to many: to the Trustees of theAmerican Academy in Rome, the John Simon GuggenheimMemorial Foundation, and the Research Committeeof the University of Wisconsin Graduate School, for givingme the opportunity to spend three years in Italy; to Lauranceand Isabel Roberts, for hospitality and moral support; toAxel Boëthius, for friendship and instruction; to ErnestNash, for photographs and advice; to Mrs. Inez Longobardi,the best and most helpful of librarians and friends;to Ferdinando Castagnoli, for sharing with me his incomparableknowledge of the topography of Rome and Latium;to R. I. W. Westgate and Alston Chase, who taught me Latinat Harvard and have been my friends for thirty years; tothe staff of the St. Martin’s Press: Diane Wheeler-Nicholson,and Fred J. Royar, for giving the book so handsome a dress;especially to my colleague J. P. Heironimus, for meticulousproofreading which saved me from much error; and toFrank E. Brown, who introduced me to archaeology andis hereby absolved from responsibility for all untowardresults of the introduction. My overarching debt is acknowledgedin the dedication.
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CONTENTS
| 1. Prehistoric Italy 1 | |
| Neolithic sites in Puglia—The terremare—Sardinian nuraghi—The early Iron Age: Villanovan and Siculan cultures | |
| 2. The Etruscans 25 | |
| Introduction—Origins—Etruscan cities—Political organization— Language—Religion—Creative arts—Life and customs | |
| 3. Early Rome 62 | |
| The Palatine hut—The Forum necropolis—Rome of the Kings—The “Servian” Wall—The Largo Argentina temples | |
| 4. Roman Colonies in Italy 91 | |
| Ostia—Alba Fucens—Cosa—Centuriation—Exploiting a frontier | |
| 5. Nabobs as Bu ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |