- List of contributors –
xxxiHilary Becker is an assistant professor of Classics at the University of Mississippi. She earned
her BA at Bryn Mawr College and her MA and PhD at the University of North Carolina. Her
publications include articles dealing with Etruscan property, archives, castella and settlement
patterns and she co-edited, with Margarita Gleba, the volume Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan
Religion (Brill 2009). She is currently researching a Roman imperial pigment shop in the Area
Sacra di S. Omobono in Rome as part of the ongoing excavations there.
Marshall Joseph Becker, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at West Chester University,
was trained at The University of Pennsylvania in all four fi elds of anthropology. He now applies
multiple anthropological approaches to gather information about the people of ancient Etruria
and elsewhere in the Mediterranean. His studies of skeletal populations from archaeological sites
in Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Czech Republic and elsewhere in the European Union have appeared
in dozens of articles and in a book co-authored with J. Turfa. Dr. Becker has published over 200
articles on the Lenape and other Native Americans as well as a number of book chapters and
monographs on the peoples of the lowland Maya region. His research has been supported by
grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The
American Philosophical Society, the National Geographic Society and the Social Science Research
Council.
Enrico Benelli is a specialist in Etruscology and the archaeology of pre-Roman Italy. He
worked in the Soprintendenza ai beni archeologici delle Marche from 1999 to 2001, becoming a
researcher in the CNR (National Research Council), where he is currently responsible for research
in Etruscan epigraphy and editor of the Thesaurus linguae Etruscae and the Corpus Inscriptionum
Etruscarum. He developed a new chronological framework for the archaic cultures of inner central
Italy, and conducted excavations in the Sabine necropolis of Colle del Forno (Eretum) from 2003
to 2009. His research includes Etruscan epigraphy, history and society, especially the later period;
a series of studies of late Etruscan inscriptions from the area of Chiusi, combining epigraphical,
archaeological and antiquarian topics, has led to innovative results, especially concerning the
social history of Chiusi and the whole of Etruria. He has taught Etruscology in the University of
Udine since 2005.
Claudio Bizzarri has a long record of achievements as director and collaborator on numerous
Etruscan and Roman archaeological excavations; he was the American Institute of Archaeology
Kress Foundation Lecturer in 2001–2002, and is now a corresponding member of the AIA. He
received his doctorate from the University of Perugia and is currently the Director of the PAAO
(Archaeological and Environmental Park of the Orvieto Area), a member of the board of the
Fondazione per il Museo C. Faina, and Resident Professor for “Arizona in Italy,” the Study Abroad
Program in Italy of the University of Arizona in Tucson. He has published extensively on the
archaeology and topography of the Orvieto region, and on Etruscan material culture, and has
taught archaeology courses at the universities of Macerata, Camerino, and Foggia.
Larissa Bonfante received her BA at Barnard College, her MA at the University of Cincinnati,
and her PhD at Columbia University, where she studied with Otto J. Brendel, Margarete Bieber
and Meyer Schapiro. She is Professor Emerita of Classics at New York University and has published
on Etruscan and Roman dress and Etruscan language and culture, particularly iconography. She
recently edited The Barbarians of Ancient Europe (2011), in which she also deals with Etruscan
infl uence in Europe, and is presently working on an edited book, Nudity as a Costume in the Ancient
Mediterranean. For the last ten years, with Jane Whitehead, she has been co-editor of Etruscan News,
the Bulletin of the US Section of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi. In 2007 she was awarded the Gold
Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America. She is a member of the Archaeological Institute
of America, the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, the German Archaeological Institute, the