The 24 contributions to this volume focus on the south east Europe, where the Iron Age has, until recently, been populated with numerous ethnic groups with which specific material culture forms have been associated.

This volume fills a gap in the study of an important, yet neglected case of state formation, by taking a landscape perspective to Etruria.

Archaeology has long dealt with issues of identity, and especially with ethnicity, with modern approaches emphasising dynamic and fluid social construction.

This volume fills a gap in the study of an important, yet neglected case of state formation, by taking a landscape perspective to Etruria.