The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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Pagina 97
... Iron Age culture can be found by 900 B.C. , and its spread thence to northern Italy across the manageable passes of the Alps was only a short step . As in the preceding metal ages , the evidence for the expansion of Iron Age cultures ...
... Iron Age culture can be found by 900 B.C. , and its spread thence to northern Italy across the manageable passes of the Alps was only a short step . As in the preceding metal ages , the evidence for the expansion of Iron Age cultures ...
Pagina 122
... Iron Age move- ments in Italy , one from the south , the other from the north , and two corresponding migration ... Age , it appeared that the new cultures reached Italy on two fronts . It seems to me that the pe- culiar testimony of the ...
... Iron Age move- ments in Italy , one from the south , the other from the north , and two corresponding migration ... Age , it appeared that the new cultures reached Italy on two fronts . It seems to me that the pe- culiar testimony of the ...
Pagina 124
... Iron Age cultures in Italy , without any ethnic or political connotation.49 The other Iron Age cultures of Italy , not subsumed under the heading Villanovan , that is , all those practicing inhumation burials in the center and south ...
... Iron Age cultures in Italy , without any ethnic or political connotation.49 The other Iron Age cultures of Italy , not subsumed under the heading Villanovan , that is , all those practicing inhumation burials in the center and south ...
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