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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 91
... Chief among the changes is the conversion from a food - gathering to a food - raising economy . And since the earliest traces of agricul- ture are found in the Near East as far back as the fourth millen- nium B.C. , since various ...
... Chief among the changes is the conversion from a food - gathering to a food - raising economy . And since the earliest traces of agricul- ture are found in the Near East as far back as the fourth millen- nium B.C. , since various ...
Pagina 95
... Chief reason for this belief is that the development from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age cultures is linear and the transition gradual , and while at given moments various regions exhibit a considerable increase in the rate of change ...
... Chief reason for this belief is that the development from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age cultures is linear and the transition gradual , and while at given moments various regions exhibit a considerable increase in the rate of change ...
Pagina 131
... chief sites being the so - called terramare of Taranto and the nearby cremation necropolis of Timmari , but also inhumation progressively regained lost ground in the north , due either to an infiltration of southern civilization , such ...
... chief sites being the so - called terramare of Taranto and the nearby cremation necropolis of Timmari , but also inhumation progressively regained lost ground in the north , due either to an infiltration of southern civilization , such ...
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