The Tiber between Latins and Etruscans

Forty years after the conference “Il Tevere e le altre vie d’acqua del Lazio antico”, in which Giovanni Colonna and I addressedthe boundaries of the Latins and the Etruscans, our documentation has significantly expanded with the discovery of Mycenean presence at Vaccina and Casale Nuovo and the new excavations from Rome and its surroundings. The overall picture does not seem to have fundamentally changed: from a substantial homogeneity among the populations north and south of the Tiber up until the late 11th century, clear differences and cultural characteristics of the Etruscans and the Latins emerge thereafter, along with the rise of major centers such as Tarquinia or Rome.