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
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 of the period. This book addresses these issues. Initial chapters introduce major themes (landscape studies, social organisation, historiography, dynamics of change, and identity), providing overviews on the history of approaches to these areas, personal perspectives on current problems, and possible future research directions. Subsequent chapters develop these topics, presenting case studies and in-depth discussions of particular issues relating to the first millennium BC in the Atlantic realm of Western Europe.
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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