A German writer, Nissen, has reckoned it at four or five thousand, men, women and children together, crowded into small huts.

But this estimate may be too high.

In any case, many of the Terremare are much smaller.
[43] The literature of the Terremare is very large.

The results obtained up to 1894 were summarized by F.von Duhn in the _Neue Heidelberger Jahrbuecher_, iv.

144; the best recent accounts are by T.E.Peet, _Stone and Bronze Ages in Italy_ (Oxford, 1909), chaps.