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In the Archaic period, the Adriatic region constitutes a particularly favourable field of enquiry for studying the process of the construction of identity & culture. Analysis of ancient texts shows that the creation of a series of tales & mythological genealogies was designed to attribute a common ancestry to the "barbaric" peoples of the Western Adriatic & the Greeks of Arcadia & Crete. Archaeological enquiry reveals, among these Italic peoples, a phenomenon of identity construction which developed through the adoption of cultural markers & ritual practices. Thus while they maintained their differences, the populations intermingled within social groups & beyond ethnic frontiers. Adapted from the source document.