Fig. 1.11 The Certosa situla.
(D. Randall-MacIver, The Iron Age in Italy, frontispiece)
Fig. 1.12 Picene tomb-furniture from Fabriano.
(F. von Duhn and F. Messerschmidt, Italische Gräberkunde, 2, Pl. 31)
Fig. 1.13 Chieti, Museum. The Warrior of Capestrano. (Italian Ministry of Public Instruction)
If the prehistoric folk who lived on the Tavoliere, in the terremare, and around the nuraghi, if the later Villanovans and Siculans have any reality for us, we owe our insights into their culture to the patience, critical spirit, and intelligence of Bradford, Pigorini’s critics, Lilliu, Ducati, Orsi, and other archaeologists. Their work has pushed back the frontiers of Italian history nearly two millennia, and revealed to us how the energy and capacity for creative borrowing of provincial Italians contributed to the ultimate strength and coherence of the Roman state, or how the Italians fought the Romans when they proved high-handed. To Roman culture of historical times another great contribution was made by the Etruscans.