In a study concerned with understanding the types of population and contact in the multiple ecosystems of Iron Age Southern Italy (from the Greek polis of the coastal flood plains to the Apennine mountain cantons of Calabria and Lucania), to work out some models it is necessary to understand the contexts very deeply as each culture or part of culture, every social group, every region, can react in a different way to contact with other cultures. Particularly instructive in this respect is the picture that emerges from the Ionian coast between Taranto and Sybaris and its immediate hinterland, where it is possible to compare and differentiate realities that are not necessarily homogeneous or completely standardized. The paper discusses three different context of the Ionian coast, L’Amastuola, Incoronata and Francavilla Marittima, where the traditional reconstruction of the settlement dynamics, proposed in the late 80s and early 90s, saw the presence of Greeks as the disruptive element which shattered a static indigenous situation, leading firstly to the conquest and subjugation of the indigenous inhabitants who lived around the immediate hinterland of the apoika and then to a blazing inter-ethnic conflict. This perspective wanted to see in the clear traces of transformations between the late eight and seventh centuries in the indigenous settlements around the area later occupied by the greek chorai the local communities succumbing to the impact of the arriving Greeks. After the discussion of this traditional reconstruction, shifting the attention to the mountainous inland regions of the Apennine hinterlands, the paper will concern the problems of mobility and cultural contact in the italic milieu and the types of settlements and the development of the indigenous communities between Iron Age I and II (in particular the case of Torre di Satriano, where new researches has revealed an extraordinary documentation).

The Iron Age in South Italy: Settlement, Mobility and Culture Contact

OSANNA, Massimo
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In a study concerned with understanding the types of population and contact in the multiple ecosystems of Iron Age Southern Italy (from the Greek polis of the coastal flood plains to the Apennine mountain cantons of Calabria and Lucania), to work out some models it is necessary to understand the contexts very deeply as each culture or part of culture, every social group, every region, can react in a different way to contact with other cultures. Particularly instructive in this respect is the picture that emerges from the Ionian coast between Taranto and Sybaris and its immediate hinterland, where it is possible to compare and differentiate realities that are not necessarily homogeneous or completely standardized. The paper discusses three different context of the Ionian coast, L’Amastuola, Incoronata and Francavilla Marittima, where the traditional reconstruction of the settlement dynamics, proposed in the late 80s and early 90s, saw the presence of Greeks as the disruptive element which shattered a static indigenous situation, leading firstly to the conquest and subjugation of the indigenous inhabitants who lived around the immediate hinterland of the apoika and then to a blazing inter-ethnic conflict. This perspective wanted to see in the clear traces of transformations between the late eight and seventh centuries in the indigenous settlements around the area later occupied by the greek chorai the local communities succumbing to the impact of the arriving Greeks. After the discussion of this traditional reconstruction, shifting the attention to the mountainous inland regions of the Apennine hinterlands, the paper will concern the problems of mobility and cultural contact in the italic milieu and the types of settlements and the development of the indigenous communities between Iron Age I and II (in particular the case of Torre di Satriano, where new researches has revealed an extraordinary documentation).
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