Etruria and Surroundings; F. Fulminante: Le 'sepolture principesche' nel Latium vetus tra la fine della prima età del ferro e l'inizio dell'età orientalizzante. (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 36.) Pp. xiv + 267, maps, ills, figs. Rome: 'L'Erma' di Bretschneider, 2003. Cased, EUR200. ISBN: 88-8265-253-X.; C. Lambrugo: Il mondo degli Etruschi. Museo Archeologico di Milano: guida alla sezione etrusca. Pp. 78, ills. Milan: Civiche Raccolte Archeologiche e Numismatiche, 2004. Paper, EUR5. No ISBN.; A. Mu

Here are two revised tesi, a museum guide, the combined proceedings of two one-day conferences, and a return visit to an important CIE fascicule: a mere fraction of the outcomes of current research in Etruria and adjacent regions, but enough to show The Classical Review vol. 55 no. 2 The Classical Association 2005; all rights reserved 611 that useful work in these areas proceeds apace, and that the younger generation of Italian scholars is in the van. The Etruscan section of the civic Archaeological Museum in Milan consists mainly of a nucleus acquired from the nineteenth century onwards, and of more than 150 corredi (around 2,000 pieces) donated in 1975 from the Lerici Foundations excavations at Caere; another comparatively recent (1987) addition is a remarkable late seventh-century wooden head with traces of gold lamination (Vulci? A. Sartori, NumAntCl 30 [2001], 3751). The Valle Trebba graves provide no support for the commonly held notion that the graves of children and sub-adults account for less in the way of energy expenditure than those of their adult counterparts: and we learn a lot about the material evolution at Spina of ritual practices and rites of passage associated with child burial. For the rest, the valiant eorts of M. H. Marchetti and L. Ambrosini respectively at Veii and in the Ager Faliscus are hampered by the lack of proper excavation reports; and F. Sciaccas notes on the splendid buccheri from the Tomba Calabresi at Caere (see now id. and L. Di Blasi, La Tomba Calabresi e la Tomba del Tripode di Cerveteri [Vatican, 2003]) are no substitute for a proper Caeretan overviewnow needed more urgently than ever, in view of the conclusions (important also for Veii) reached by W. Regter, Imitation and Creation: Development of Early Bucchero Design at Cerveteri in the Seventh Century BC (Amsterdam, 2003; reviewed AWE 4 [2005], 21315).