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Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC: Crossing the Divide

Tom Moore and Xosê-Lois Armada

Abstract

European first millennium BC studies have witnessed an increasing theoretical divide between the approaches adopted in different countries. Whilst topics such as ethnicity, identity, and agency have dominated many British studies, such themes have had less resonance in continental approaches. At the same time, British and Iberian first millennium BC studies have become increasingly divorced from research elsewhere in Europe. While such divergence reflects deep historical divisions in theory and methodology between European perspectives, it is an issue that has been largely ignored by scholars ... More

Keywords: Europe, landscape studies, social organisation, historiography, dynamics of change, identity, Western Europe

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780199567959
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199567959.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Tom Moore, editor
Lecturer in Archaeology, Durham University

Xosê-Lois Armada, editor
Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Part I Crossing the Divide

1 Crossing the Divide

Tom Moore and Xosé-Lois Armada

Part II Landscape Studies

2 Settlement and Landscape in Iron Age Europe

Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero

3 Historical Ecology

William J. Meyer and Carole L. Crumley

4 Stelae Iconography and Landscape in South-west Iberia

Sebastián Celestino Pérez, Victorino Mayoral Herrera, José Ángel Salgado Carmona, and Rebeca Cazorla Martín

5 Landscape Dynamics, Political Processes, and Social Strategies in the Eastern Iberian Iron Age

Ignacio Grau Mira

6 A Re-examination of Three Wessex-type Sites

Oliver Davis

7 Landscape in the Late Iron Age of Northwest Portugal

Francisco Sande Lemos, Gonçalo Cruz, João Fonte, and Joana Valdez

8 La Tène and Early Gallo-Roman Settlement in Central Gaul

Pierre Nouvel

Part III The Social Modelling of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Societies

9 ‘Reconstructing Iron Age Society’ Revisited

John Collis

10 How Did British Middle and Late Pre-Roman Iron Age Societies Work (if they did)?

J. D. Hill

11 Social Inequality during the Iron Age

Inés Sastre

12 Iron Age Societies against the State

Francisco Javier González García, César Parcero-Oubiña, and Xurxo Ayán Vila

13 Shifting Centres of Power and Changing Elite Symbolism in the Scheldt Fluvial Basin during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age

Guy De Mulder and Jean Bourgeois

14 Examples of Social Modelling in the Seine Valley during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age

Rebecca Peake, Régis Issenmann, and Valérie Delattre

15 Becoming Welsh

Raimund Karl

16 Person, Family, and Community

Dimitri Mathiot

17 Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent

Rachel PopeIan Ralston

Part IV Continuity and Change

18 Approaches to Metalwork

Barbara R. Armbruster

19 The Problem of Continuity

John C. Barrett, Mark Bowden, and David McOmish

20 Iron Age Ireland

Katharina Becker

21 Exploring Status and Identity in Later Iron Age Britain

Jody Joy

22 Discovering San Chuis Hillfort (Northern Spain)

Jesús F. Jordá Pardo, Carlos Marín Suárez, and Javier García-Guinea

23 Changing to Remain the Same

Alicia Jiménez

Part V Rhythms of Life and Death

24 Crossing the Divide in the First Millennium BC

Robert Van de Noort

25 The Warrior Stelae of the Iberian South-west

Leonardo García Sanjuán

26 Funerary Expression and Ideology in the Cogotas Culture Settlements in the Northern Meseta of the Iberian Peninsula

Miguel Ángel Arnáiz Alonso and Juan Montero Gutiérrez

27 Warriors and Heroes from the North-east of Iberia: A View from the Funerary Contexts

Raimon Graells Fabregat

28 Headhunting and Social Power in Iron Age Europe

Ian Armit

29 The Ritual Representation of the Body during the Late Iron Age in Northern France

Valérie Delattre

Part VI Exploring European Research Traditions

30 Iron Age Knowledge: Pre-Roman Peoples and Myths of Origin

Richard Hingley

31 Exploring Late Iron Age Settlement in Britain and the Near Continent

Adam Rogers

32 The ‘Introduction to Ethnicity Syndrome’ in Proto-historical Archaeology

Guillermo-Sven Reher Díez

33 Boundaries, Status, and Conflict

Niall Sharples

End Matter

Index