Tracing the Transformation of Southern Italy in The Long Fourth Century BCE

Christian Heitz is Senior Scientist at the Institut für Archäologien of the University of Innsbruck. He has been working in different areas, from the Aegean Bronze Age to Imperial Rome. Currently, he is studying contexts in the area of pre- and early Roman southern Italy and excavation director at Ascoli Satriano (prov. Foggia/Apulia). His research topics range from social structure, gender issues and iconography to textile and pottery studies.Matthias Hoernes is a Mediterranean archaeologist at the University of Vienna, specialising in the funerary archaeology of pre-Roman southern Italy, particularly during the early Hellenistic period. He is also interested in transcultural encounters and dynamics in the Iron Age-Archaic Mediterranean, particularly in Sicily and southern Italy, as well as archaeological university collections, their history and cultural heritage management.Agnes Henning is Researcher and Curator of the Antiquities Collection at the Winckelmann□Institut of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research spans a wide spatial and chronological range, from Archaic Sicily and its Greek poleis to the provinces in the extreme east of the Roman Empire. The main focus of her research is on architecture and urbanism. In South Italy, she has been studying hilltop settlements and their fortifications in the mountains of Lucania for many years and has carried out several field research projects in this context.Edward Robinson was Assistant Curator of the Nicholson Museum and then Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Apulia and Basilicata. His principal research interests include ancient theatre, Information Classification: General the iconography and archaeometry of south Italian pottery, especially overpainted and red-figure wares, and cross-cultural contact in the region.

• Part I 00. Introduction 01. Change and transformation in southern Italy in the long fourth century BCE: History and historiography Part II 02. The rise of hilltop settlements in Samnium 03. Hilltop settlements and their fortifications in the mountainous inland of South Italy. Transformation and self-definition at the end of the fourth century BCE 04. Messapian settlements and their transformations in the fourth century BCE 05. Continuities, ruptures and the dynamics of transformation in ancient Calabria Part III 06. Mobile artisans, warriors and ideas in South Italy: evidence for the plays of Epicharmus07. Cross-cultural contacts and figured ware consumption: Pisticci and Metaponto in the fourth century BCE 08. Household material culture and transformations in Magna Graecia: Weaving tools and cooking ware in the fourth and third centuries BCE 09. War and wealth: The long fourth century BCE in southeastern Italy as an age of internationalization, prosperity and convergence Part IV 10. Funerary display and socio-political change in middle-republican central Italy: a view from the Samnite uplands 11. Funerary practices in Lucania as a reflection of fourth-century transformations12. Intra muros et extra: Funerary landscapes and settlement dynamics at Monte Sannace and Vaste in the fourth century BCE 13. Funerary practices and changes in the social hierarchy in central Apulian communities in the second half of the fourth century BCE Part V 14. Negotiating identities in Italic and Italiote communities: A “long”-fourth-century-BCE perspective on Heracles at Crotone 15. Cult places and the evolving social context in the region of ancient Lucania16. Archaeology of cult places in Apulia in the fourth and third centuries BCE 17. Weaving identities: Textiles and clothing in fourth-century BCE southern Italy 18. Conclusion: Studying the Fourth Century BCE in Southern Italy in the Twenty-First Century