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Table of contents :
List of illustrations --
List of tables --
Notes on contributors --
Acknowledgments --
Map of Etruria --
Introduction --
Part I: History: beginnings / Simon Stoddart
Materializing the Etruscans / Skylar Neil
The Romanization of Etruria / Letizia Ceccarelli --
Part II: Geography, urbanization, and space: Etruscan Italy / Simon Stoddart
City and countryside / Simon Stoddart
The Etruscans and the Mediterranean / Giovannangelo Camporeale
Urbanization and foundation rites / Corinna Riva
Poggio civitate / Anthony S. Tuck
Southern and Inner Etruria / Claudio Bizzarri
Etruscan domestic architecture, hydraulic engineering, and water management technologies / Claudio Bizzarri and David Soren
Rock tombs and the world of the Etruscan necropoleis / Stephan Steingräber
Communicating with gods / P. Gregory Warden --
Part III: Evidence in context: Etruscan skeletal biology and Etruscan origins / Marshall J. Becker
Language, alphabet, and linguistic affiliation / Rex E. Wallace
Bucchero in context / Philip Perkins
Etruscan textiles in context / Margarita Gleba
Etruscan wall painting / Lisa C. Pieraccini
Votives in their larger religious context / Helen Nagy
Etruscan jewelry and identity / Alexis Q. Castor
Luxuria prolapsa est / Hilary Becker
Tanaquil / Gretchen E. Meyers
The Obesus Etruscus / Jean MacIntosh Turfa Part IV: Art, society, and culture: The Etruscans, Greek art, and the Near East / Ann C. Gunter
Etruscan artists / Jocelyn Penny Small
Etruscan bodies and Greek ponderation / Francesco de Angelis
Myth in Etruria / Ingrid Krauskopf
The "taste" for violence in Etruscan art / Alexandra A. Carpino --
Part V. The Etruscan legacy and contemporary issues: Annius of Viterbo and the beginning of Etruscan studies / Ingrid D. Rowland
Tyrrhenian Sirens / Richard Daniel De Puma
Looting and the antiquities trade / Gordon Lobay --
Appendix: Etruscan art in North American museums --
Supplementary images.

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