The earliest processes toward city-states, political power and social stratification in Middle Tyrrhenian Italy

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Published in Origini n. XXXIX/2016. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations | The Bronze Age in Italy (2200-925 BCE) corresponds to a historical cycle that witnesses the construction of forms of land occupation and exploitation headed by systems of interrelated villages. Starting in Middle Bronze Age phases 1-2 (1700-1400 BCE), within those communities, social groups of sword-bearer men emerge, into which a female component becomes integrated. In some areas this social group seems to have developed differentiated forms of access to certain goods, that in the South may have included livestock. However, at least until Recent Bronze Age, there are no proofs of neither the formation of markedly distinct socio-economic classes nor of stable forms of centralized political power. In some areas of Italy, especially in Recent...

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