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4 See, for instance, by A. M. Bietti Sestieri, L’Italia nell’età del bronzo e del ferro. Dalle palafi tte
a Romolo (2200–700 A.C.) (Rome: Carocci, 2010). See also The Iron Age Community of Osteria
dell’Osa: A Study of Socio-political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy, (Cambridge University
Press, 1992, 2009); and, with Anna De Santis, “Relative and Absolute Chronology of
Latium Vetus from the Late Bronze Age to the Transition to the Orientalizing Period” in
D. Brandherm and M. Trachsel, eds., A New Dawn for the Dark Age? Shifting Paradigms in
Mediterranean Iron Age Culture, (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2008: 119–133).
5 Readers are recommended to consult his recently published scholarship on this and related
topics, including: “Italy from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age,” in Cambridge Ancient History,
vol. 4, ch. 12 (2nd edn, 1988); “The Etruscans,” in Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 4, ch. 13
(2nd edn, 1988); The First Western Greeks, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992);
“Nestor’s cup and the Etruscans,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 16:3 (1997) 325–344, in
which the mystery of the cheese grater is explained; “The fi rst Western Greeks revisited,” in
Ancient Italy in its Mediterranean Setting. Studies in honor of Ellen Macnamara, (Accordia Research
Institute, University of London, London 2000) 179–191; “An inscribed bucchero aryballos,”
Journal of Roman Archaeology 21 (2008) 248–254.
6 Again, Veii could easily fi ll more than one book. For basic background bibliography see S. A.
Collins-Elliott and I. Edlund-Berry, “A bibliography of sanctuaries and ritual in Etruria,” in
[143–165] 162–163. Recently released: G. Bartoloni, ed., 2011. Il culto degli Antenati a Veio.
Nuove testimonianze da scavi e ricerche recenti. Rome: Offi cina edizioni; and G. Bartoloni and M.
G. Benedettini, 2011. Veio. Il deposito votivo di Comunità Votive (Scavi 1889–2005). Rome: G.
Bretschneider.