The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age

The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age

The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age

The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age

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Overview

The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through to the early historic periods, exploiting the large quantities of new evidence yielded by the upsurge in archaeological research and excavation on this period over the last thirty years. Three introductory chapters situate the reader in the times and the environments of Iron Age Europe. Fourteen regional chapters provide accessible syntheses of developments in different parts of the continent, from Ireland and Spain in the west to the borders with Asia in the east, from Scandinavia in the north to the Mediterranean shores in the south. Twenty-six thematic chapters examine different aspects of Iron Age archaeology in greater depth, from lifeways, economy, and complexity to identity, ritual, and expression. Among the many topics explored are agricultural systems, settlements, landscape monuments, iron smelting and forging, production of textiles, politics, demography, gender, migration, funerary practices, social and religious rituals, coinage and literacy, and art and design.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199696826
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/27/2023
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 1424
Product dimensions: 9.40(w) x 7.50(h) x 3.20(d)

About the Author

Colin Haselgrove, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Leicester,Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Group Leader, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Science,Peter S. Wells, Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

Colin Haselgrove is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. He lectured at Durham University from 1977-2004 and was Professor at Leicester University from 2005 until he retired in 2021. His main interests are in Iron Age studies, settlement landscapes, early coinage, and Roman impact on indigenous societies. He has conducted fieldwork in France, England and Scotland. He is currently working on developing chronologies for Iron Age sites in Wessex, on rural settlement in northern France in the first millennia BC and AD, and on south-east Britain at the time of Julius Caesar's invasions. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury is an archaeologist with a research focus on the European Bronze and Iron Ages. After completing her PhD in 2005, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Universities of Cambridge and Leicester in the UK, where she participated in research programmes on the human body and networks. In 2015, she was awarded the ERC Starting Grant for her project 'The value of mothers to society: responses to motherhood and child rearing practices in prehistoric Europe'. She directs the research group 'Prehistoric Identities' at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences and teaches at the University of Vienna.

Peter S. Wells is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has directed excavations at three settlement sites in southern Germany, recovering materials ranging in time from the Early Bronze Age through the Late Iron Age. His principal interests include interactions between communities, art and visuality, and ritual practices. His recent works include The Battle that Stopped Rome (2003) and Beyond Celts, Germans, and Scythians (2001).

Table of Contents

I: INTRODUCTION1. Introduction: the Iron Age in Europe, Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Peter S. Wells2. Europe in the Iron Age: landscapes, regions, climate, and people, Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Peter S. Wells3. Chronology in Iron Age Europe: current approaches and challenges, Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Peter S. WellsII: REGIONAL SYNTHESES4. The British Isles and the near Continent, Colin Haselgrove and Sophie Krausz5. Scandinavia and northern Germany, Frands Herschend6. The eastern Baltic, Valter Lang7. Eastern central Europe: between the Elbe and the Dnieper, Wojciech Nowakowski8. Central Europe, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick9. Southern France, Dominique Garcia10. The Iberian Peninsula, Xosé-Lois Armada and Ignacio Grau Mira11. The northern Adriatic, Raffaele de Marinis and Biba Terzan12. The central Mediterranean and the Aegean, Lin Foxhall13. Northern Greece and the central, Stefanos Gimatzidis14. The Carpathian and Danubian area, Aurel Rustoiu15. The northern Black Sea and north Caucasus, Sabine Reinhold and Valentina Mordvintseva16. Europe to Asia, Ludmila Koryakova17. Edges and interactions beyond Europe, Naoise Mac Sweeney and Peter S. WellsIII: THEMES IN IRON AGE ARCHAEOLOGY18. Food, foodways, and subsistence, Hansjörg Küster19. Animals and animal husbandry, Maaike Groot20. Households and communities, Leo Webley21. Urbanization and oppida, Stephan Fichtl22. Building landscapes and monuments, Holger Wendling and Manfred K. H. Eggert23. Iron and iron technology, Timothy Champion24. Raw materials, technology, and innovation, Rupert Gebhard25. Material worlds, Fraser Hunter26. Textiles and clothing, Johanna Banck-Burgess27. Trade and exchange, Chris Gosden28. Coinage and coin use, Colin Haselgrove29. Politics and power, John Collis and Raimund Karl30. Warriors, war, and weapons; or arms, the armed, and armed violence, Simon James31. Wealth, status, and occupation groups, Tom Moore32. Horses, wagons, and chariots, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury33. Demographic aspects of Iron Age societies, Michael Gebühr and Stefan Burmeister34. Gender and society, Rachel Pope35. Regions, groups, and identity: an intellectual history, T. L. Thurston36. Writing, writers, and Iron Age Europe, Daphne Nash Briggs37. Migration, Andrew Fitzpatrick38. Indigenous communities under Rome, Adam Rogers39. Feasting and commensal rituals, Jody Joy40. Funerary practices, Patrice Brun41. Ritual sites, offerings, and sacrifice, Ian Armit42. Formal religion, Miranda Aldhouse-Green43. Art on the northern edge of the Mediterranean world, Martin Guggisberg
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