The Foundations of Roman Italy

Adriatic coast Ægean alphabet Alpine Alps ancient Italy Apennines appear Apulia Atestine Augustan belong Benacci Bologna bronze age burials Campania central Italy century B.C. chalcolithic Cisalpine Gaul civilization climate Comacine cremation culture doubt early iron age East Italic Etruria Etruscan inscriptions Faliscan Fibula goddess graves Greek Histria Iguvine Illyrian important Indo-European influence inhumation invaders iron age Italian Italic Dialects Keltic Kelts lake-dwellers language large number later Latin Latium least Lepontic Lepontic inscriptions Ligurian linguistic Lucania Mediterranean Messapic native neolithic north Italy northern Novilara older 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 situla southern Villanovans speech stone Tène terramara terremare territory tion tombs Torre Galli tradition tribes Umbrian valley vases Venetic Vetulonia Villanovans ware western