Gabriele Cifani
Italian archaeologist and historian specializing in Etruscan culture and the early history of Rome; author of works including The Origins of the Roman Economy (2020).
Books
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1. The Origins Of The Roman Economy
From the Iron Age to the Early Republic in a Mediterranean Perspective
A synthesis of archaeological and historical evidence tracing how Rome’s economy took shape from the Iron Age to the early Republic, emphasizing the roles of urbanization, elite competition, sanctuaries, warfare, and Mediterranean connectivity in structuring production and exchange before coinage and formal markets. It shows how agricultural intensification, craft specialization, and control over resources and mobility—through the Tiber corridor, roads, and early colonial foundations—generated networks of redistribution and trade that transcended a simple primitivist/modernist divide, laying the institutional and material foundations for later Republican expansion.
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