Women's roles in Iron Age Basilicata, south Italy

This paper is concerned with indigenous women and their range of social and political interactions during the Iron Age in Basilicata, South Italy. The following discussion is based upon an archaeological analysis of indigenous and Greek habitation areas and necropoleis. The information that these contexts and artefacts provide will be used to elucidate the range of indigenous women’s interactions with indigenous men and with non-indigenous (i.e. Greek) males.