Tracing the Transformation of Southern Italy in The Long Fourth Century BCE

Part I. Introduction 01. Tracing transformations in Southern Italy’s long fourth century BCE: Material evidence and archaeology 02. Change and transformation in southern Italy in the long fourth century BCE: History and historiography Part II Villages, towns and cities: Settlement dynamics and the organisation of space 03. The rise of hilltop settlements in Samnium 04. Hilltop settlements and their fortifications in the mountainous inland of South Italy. Transformation and self-definition at the end of the fourth century BCE 05. Messapian settlements and their transformations in the fourth century BCE 06. Continuities, ruptures and the dynamics of transformation in ancient Calabria Part III Arts and crafts: Material and visual culture and crosscultural consumption 07. Mobile artisans, warriors and ideas in Southern Italy: Evidence for the plays of Epicharmus 08. Cross-cultural contacts and figured ware consumption: Pisticci and Metaponto in the fourth century BCE 09. Household material culture and transformations in Magna Graecia: Weaving tools and cooking ware in the fourth and third centuries BCE 10. War and wealth: The long fourth century BCE in southeastern Italy as an age of internationalisation, prosperity and convergence Part IV Social formation: Dynamics in funerary landscapes 11. Funerary display and socio-political change in middle-republican Central Italy: A view from the Samnite uplands 12. Funerary practices in Lucania as a reflection of fourth-century transformations 13. Intra muros et extra: Funerary landscapes and settlement dynamics at Monte Sannace and Vaste in the fourth century BCE 14. Funerary practices and changes in the social hierarchy in central Apulian communities in the second half of the fourth century BCE Part V Cult and identity: Changing affiliations and orientations 15. Negotiating identities in Italic and Italiote communities: A “long”-fourth-century-BCE perspective on Heracles at Crotone 16. Cult places and the evolving social context in the region of ancient Lucania 17. Archaeology of cult places in Apulia in the fourth and third centuries BCE 18. Weaving identities: Textiles and clothing in fourth-century BCE Southern Italy Part VI Conclusion 19. Studying the fourth century BCE in Southern Italy in the twenty-first century