Lorenzo Zamboni is Adjunct Professor at the University of Pavia, where he obtained his PhD in Archaeology with research on Spina. Since 2012 he has been co-director of the archaeological excavations at Iron Age Verucchio. His research covers a wide range of settlement, material, funerary, and theoretical aspects mainly concerning the human presence in Northern and Central Italy between the Final Bronze Age and the Roman period. Manuel Fernández-Götz is Reader in European Archaeology and Head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored ca. 200 publications and held visiting scholar positions at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Brown, among others. His main research interests are Iron Age societies in Central and Western Europe, the archaeology of identities, and conflict archaeology. He has directed fieldwork projects in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Croatia. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick is Full Professor and Chair for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the LMU Munich. She has directed several fieldwork and interdisciplinary research projects, including sites in Romania, Bavaria, Croatia, and Italy (Como). She was also co-speaker for the Munich Graduate School ‘Distant Worlds’, and PI of the LMU-based Research Unit ‘Transalpine Mobility and Cultural Transfer’. Her research interests focus on the European Bronze and Iron Ages with a wide thematic and geographical scope.

...succeeds admirably in its core aims of characterising the variability of early Iron Age urbanism beyond the Classical world and in anchoring northern Italy into the wider European picture. […] It should be required reading for any serious student of Iron Age urbanism, whilst the publisher’s enlightened decision to make the volume free-to-read online will ensure that it reaches the widest possible audience.

• PART 1 – URBAN ORIGINS AND TRAJECTORIES ACROSS THE ALPSEarly Urbanism South and North of the Alps: An IntroductionLorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernández-Götz and Carola Metzner-NebelsickAspects of Urbanism in Later Bronze Age Northern Italy Mark PearceUrbanisation and Deurbanisation in the European Iron Age: Definitions, Debates, and CyclesManuel Fernández-GötzFrom Genoa to Günzburg. New Trajectories of Urbanisation and Acculturation between the Mediterranean and South-Central EuropeLouis Nebelsick and Carola Metzner-NebelsickPART 2 – EARLY URBANISATION PROCESSES IN NORTHERN ITALYVerucchio: The Iron Age SettlementPaolo Rondini and Lorenzo ZamboniArchaeology of Early Felsina. The Birth of a Villanovan CityJacopo OrtalliSpheres of Consumption of Metalwork and Trans-regional Interactions at the Onset of the Urban Phenomenon in Northern ItalyCristiano IaiaUrbanism and Architecture in the Etruscan City of Kainua-Marzabotto: New PerspectivesElisabetta Govi, Chiara Pizzirani and Andrea GaucciRelationships between City and Necropolis in Northeast ItalyGiovanna GambacurtaThe Proto-urban Phenomenon in Veneto: A Review of the Population Dynamics of the Settlement of Oppeano (Verona)Massimo Saracino and Alessandro GuidiCoazze near Gazzo Veronese, on the Fringes of Veneto and Etruria Padana, NE ItalyAlessandro Vanzetti, Matteo Bertoldo, Francesca Di Maria, Dario Monti, Luciano Salzani and Fabio SaccoccioThe Etruscan Settlement of Adria (Italy, Rovigo): New Data from the Excavations in Via Ex Riformati (2015-2016)Simonetta Bonomi, Maria Cristina Vallicelli and Claudio BalistaExploring Spina: Urbanism, Architecture, and Material CultureAleksandra Mistireki and Lorenzo ZamboniThe Hidden City: Reconstructing the Urban Structure of the Etruscan Harbour of Forcello di Bagnolo San Vito through Excavations and Non-invasive MethodsRainer Komp, Tommaso Quirino and Marta RapiThe Early Iron Age Protourbanisation along the Ticino River and around ComoRaffaele Carlo de Marinis and Stefania CasiniThe First Results of Geophysical Prospections Using the ADS Method on the Proto-urban Settlement Site of Como, Spina VerdeFabian Welc, Louis Nebelsick, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick, Ines Balzer, Alessandro Vanzetti, and Barbara GrassiBergamo and Parre during the Early Iron Age: Early Urbanism and the Alpine WorldRaffaella Poggiani Keller and Paolo RondiniPART 3 – EARLY URBANISATION PROCESSES IN CENTRAL EUROPEEarliest Town North of the Alps. New Excavations and Research in the Heuneburg RegionDirk Krausse, Leif Hansen and Roberto TarpiniCentralisation Processes at the Fürstensitz Princely Seat on Mount Ipf in the Nördlinger Ries, Southern GermanyRüdiger KrauseEarly Urbanism and the Relationship between Northern Italy and Bohemia in the Early Iron AgeMiloslav ChytráčekVix: The Temptation of the CityBruno ChaumeBourges-Avaricum: A Western Example of a Princely Complex of c. 500 BC in Central FranceIan RalstonThe Early Iron Age Central Place at Most na Soči (NW Slovenia)Sneža Tecco HvalaThe Dürrnberg Salt Metropolis: Catalyst of Communication and Complexity in La Tène Central EuropeHolger WendlingPART 4 – CONCLUDING THOUGHTS AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVESThe Mediterranean at the Periphery of Urban OriginsCorinna RivaUntold Riches of the Urban Form Central to the Pre-Roman European ExperienceSimon Stoddart