The Etruscan Woman: ‘Romanization’ and Funerary Culture
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This paper evaluates our knowledge of Etruscan women during the late Etruscan period (ca. 350-1 BC). This subject is complex for two main reasons: 1) the lack of Etruscan literary sources; 2) the Roman conquest of Etruria. Within the framework of glocalization and giving primacy to the role of female material culture, the societal status of the Etruscan woman is scrutinized analyzing the ratio of women in Etruscan tombs. This aspect is diachronically studied for Chiusi, so we can gauge the possible impact of both internal and external developments. This paper explicitly rejects the old paradigm of pervasive 'Romanization', by not a priori assuming Roman influence. Instead, Etruscan developments within a broader Italic context are seen as the basis for this analysis. Finally, this paper argues that there is no such thing as 'the Etruscan woman'. Rather, Etruria consisted of many subcultures with their own customs and modes of representation.
DOI: 10.16995/traj.18229
Author: Alexis Daveloose
Institution: Ghent University
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415297008
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