Douwe Yntema is professor of Mediterranean Archaeology and member of the Research Institute CLUE at the Vrij University Amsterdam , as well as fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Preface, 1. Introduction: aim, concept and biases, 2. Foreigners and fortifications: bronze age preludes, 3. The land and the people, 4. Huts, houses and migrants: the iron age (c. 1000/950 - 600/550 BC), 5. Temples, poleis and paramount chiefs: the ‘archaic - classical’ period (c. 600/550-370 BC), 6. Towns, leagues and landholding elites: the early-Hellenistic period, c. 370/350 - 250/230 BC, 7. Peasants, princes and senators: southeast Italy at the periphery of the Roman world (c. 250/230 - 100/80 BC), Bibliography, Index

Douwe Yntema is professor of Mediterranean Archaeology and member of the Research Institute CLUE at the Vrij University Amsterdam , as well as fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Preface, 1. Introduction: aim, concept and biases, 2. Foreigners and fortifications: bronze age preludes, 3. The land and the people, 4. Huts, houses and migrants: the iron age (c. 1000/950 - 600/550 BC), 5. Temples, poleis and paramount chiefs: the ‘archaic - classical’ period (c. 600/550-370 BC), 6. Towns, leagues and landholding elites: the early-Hellenistic period, c. 370/350 - 250/230 BC, 7. Peasants, princes and senators: southeast Italy at the periphery of the Roman world (c. 250/230 - 100/80 BC), Bibliography, Index

Douwe Yntema is professor of Mediterranean Archaeology and member of the Research Institute CLUE at the Vrij University Amsterdam , as well as fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Preface, 1. Introduction: aim, concept and biases, 2. Foreigners and fortifications: bronze age preludes, 3. The land and the people, 4. Huts, houses and migrants: the iron age (c. 1000/950 - 600/550 BC), 5. Temples, poleis and paramount chiefs: the ‘archaic - classical’ period (c. 600/550-370 BC), 6. Towns, leagues and landholding elites: the early-Hellenistic period, c. 370/350 - 250/230 BC, 7. Peasants, princes and senators: southeast Italy at the periphery of the Roman world (c. 250/230 - 100/80 BC), Bibliography, Index