Etruscan Civilization
Etruscans
A people who inhabited early italy. an ancient inhabitant of Etruria, a land in north and central Italy.
Sabines
Neighboring people of the Romans whose daughters were abducted during a festival in Rome.
Latins
People from the ancient country of Latium, an area in what is now the country of Italy.
Villanovan Period
The Etruscan World: The Villanovan Period. Etruria emerged from the Bronze Age with a distinctive culture already formed. We call this early period (9th-8th centuries BC) Villanovan, after a cemetery near Bologna. The people of the Villanovan period were a society of warrior-farmers living in small hut-villages.