Etruscan civilization: a cultural history. (Later prehistory and protohistory of the central & western Mediterranean). (book review)

SYBILLE HAYNES. Etruscan civilization: a cultural history. xx+432 pages, 246 b&w illustrations, 84 colour illustrations, 1 table. 2000. London: British Museum Press; 0-7141-2228-9 hardback 35 [pounds sterling].

The Palazzo Grassi has again produced a major exhibition whose bi-product is a synthesis of a people of the ancient world. The result is a lavishly illustrated cultural history of the Etruscans, but a history without an extensive exploration of the underlying infrastructure. One of the great breakthroughs of Etruscan research is the understanding of the prehistoric ...

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