WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Unlike with the Greeks, however, the majority of our knowledge about Etruscan art comes largely from their burials. (Since most Etruscan cities are still inhabited, they hide their Etruscan art and architecture under Roman, Medieval and Renaissance layers).

Detailed explanation-2: -Tombs and necropoleis are among the most excavated and studied parts of Etruscan culture. Scholars learn about Etruscan society and culture from the study of Etruscan funerary practice. Burial urns and sarcophagi, both large and small, were used to hold the cremated remains of the dead.

Detailed explanation-3: -Villanovan Culture: Forerunner of Etruscan Civilization. Archaeologists call the Iron Age culture of ancient Etruria “Villanovan", reserving the name “Etruscan” for the period after c. 700 BCE.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Etruscans themselves dated the origin of the Etruscan nation to a date corresponding to the 11th or 10th century BC. The Villanovan culture emerges with the phenomenon of regionalization from the late Bronze Age culture called “Proto-Villanovan", part of the central European Urnfield culture system.