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This paper will stake a spatial-behavioral approach to the developing organization of Etruscan society from the 7th to 5th centuries BC. As political systems changed and developed over this period, urban spaces responded in kind. The 6th century saw a transition from the parallel aristocratic power structures that existed within each territory to more centralized state authority. This development was reflected in and even accommodated by a transition from settlements loosely organized around aristocratic complexes to urban forms focused on central spaces and the first explicitly public monumental structures. These novel structures represented the new primacy of state authority from which personal political authority was increasingly derived from the mid-6th century onwards gave shape to the habitual public activities of urban life.