Jeremy Armstrong is Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient History at the University of Auckland, NZ.

Sheira Cohen is a PhD candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA) at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA.

1. Communities and connectivities in pre-Roman Italy; Sheira
Cohen and Jeremy Armstrong; 2. Enchanted trade: technicians
and the city; Christopher Smith; 3. Metallurgy and connectivity
in northern Etruria; Seth Bernard; 4. Hephaestus' workshop:
craftspeople, elites, and bronze armour in pre-Roman Italy;
Jeremy Armstrong; 5. Potters and mobility in southern Italy
(500-300 BCE); E.G.D. (Ted) Robinson; 6. 'The potter is by nature
a social animal': A producer-centred approach to
regionalisation in the South Italian matt-painted tradition;
Leah Bernardo-Ciddio; 7. Bronzesmiths and the construction
of material identity in central Italy, (1000-700 BCE); Cristiano
Iaia; 8. The 'Bradano District' revisited: tombs, trade, and
identity in interior Peucetia; Bice Peruzzi; 9. Etruscan trading
spaces and the tools for regulating Etruscan markets; Hilary
Becker; 10. A mobile model of cultural transfer in pre-Roman
southern Italy; Christian Heitz; 11. Mechanisms of community
formation in pre-Roman Italy: a latticework of connectivity
and interaction; Sheira Cohen; Epilogue: writing of
connectivity at a time of isolation; Elena Isayev.