The Foundations of Roman Italy

Adriatic coast Ægean alphabet Alpine Alps ancient Italy Apennines appear Apulia Atestine Augustan Benacci Bologna bronze age burials Campania central Italy century B.C. chalcolithic Cisalpine Gaul civilization climate Comacine cremation culture early iron age East Italic Emilia epithet Etruria Etruscan inscriptions Faliscan fibula Gallic goddess graves Greek Histria Iguvine Illyrian important Indo-European influence inhumation invaders iron age Italian Italic Dialects Keltic Kelts lake-dwellers land language large number later Latin Latium least Lepontic Lepontic inscriptions Ligurian linguistic Lucania Mediterranean Messapic native neolithic north Italy northern Novilara older origin Oscan ossuary paleolithic peninsula perhaps Picene Picenum population pottery Prae-Italic Dialects pre-Roman proper names race Ræti Rætic Randall-MacIver region remains rite river Roman Rome Samnite Sardinia settlements Sicel Sicily southern Villanovans Tène terramara terremare territory tion tombs Torre Galli tradition tribes Umbrian valley vases Venetic Vetulonia Villanovans ware western