Iron Age Italy

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At the beginning of the Iron Age, around 950 BC, Italy was a land of farming villages; just a few centuries later, it was one of the wealthiest and most densely urbanized parts of the Mediterranean world. This dramatic change was a product of a new world driven by metalworking, cities, and powerful elite groups.

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0:05.4	Thin wisps the smoke rose from the dying fire.
0:20.2	Chunks of whitish bone, broken and charred stood out amidst the cherry red embers and gray
0:25.3	ash.
0:26.3	They were the last remnants of a once-powerful man.
0:29.7	His bronze helmet with its thin crest weighted, along with the long bronze sword and the
0:33.8	square bronze kuras that had failed to protect him, to be placed in the grave along with
0:38.2	his cremated remains.
0:40.5	The mourners stood patiently around the pyre.
0:43.4	Their eyes occasionally strayed, playing over the hills and valleys visible from the high
0:47.4	point on which they stood.
0:49.5	Those with keen eyes could see the vague outlines of huts in their nearby clusters on this
0:53.3	volcanic plateau.
0:55.0	The collections of homes that defined the villages of this little corner of central Italy.
0:59.7	The attendees at the funeral had come from their huts this morning to gather here, to
1:03.3	finish the deceased man's journey to the next world.
1:06.6	They too would wait, along with the man's most prized possessions to do it properly.
1:11.2	The fire was out now, and only a bit of heat still radiated from the ashes.
1:15.4	It was time.
1:16.8	A beardless young man, his eyes puffy and red held a ceramic urn in his hands.
1:21.8	The urn was in the shape of a miniature hut, a perfect replica of the little circular
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