The Etruscans
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The Villanovan culture
The Villanovan was originally a bronze age culture with the distinctive feature of burying their dead in "urn-fields" . The Villanovan Iron Age began c. 750 BC around the time of Greek colonization in Italy at Ischia and Cumae. Subsequently, the Villanovan culture died out, and it is not known precisely what happened to it. However, it is likely the Villanovan peoples were absorbed into Etruscan culture in Tuscany and morphed into the Latin culture in Latium. By the C7th BC the peoples of Villanovian culture adopted inhumantion, which was the custom of the Etruscans, and the dead were laid in chamber-tombs cut into rock. Villages coalesced into small and wealthy cities. Greek pottery was imported. The fact that the practice of inhumation only gradually replaces the practice of cremation, practised by the Villanovians, suggests that the influx of the Etruscans was gradual. So it is likely that the Villanovian culture in Tuscany and Latium was assimilated into the Etruscan culture.
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Contents of
The Etruscans
1 The Villanovan culture
2 The origin of the Etruscans
3 Etruscan economy and culture
4 Etruscan cities
5 Etruscan art and philosophy
6 Etruscan haruspicy
7 Greek colonization in Italy
8 Foundation of Cumae
9 International relations of Etruria
10 Internal politics of Etruscan cities
11 Etruscan monarchy in Rome
12 Rome and the Etruscans
13 The effect of Etruscan rule on Rome
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