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Fingerprinting the Iron Age: Approaches to identity in the European Iron Age
Archaeology has long dealt with issues of identity, and especially with ethnicity, with modern approaches emphasising dynamic and fluid social construction. The archaeology of the Iron Age in particular has engendered much debate on the topic of ethnicity, fuelled by the first availability of written sources alongside the archaeological evidence which has led many researchers to associate the features they excavate with populations named by Greek or Latin writers. Some archaeological traditions have had their entire structure built around notions of ethnicity, around the relationships existing between large groups of people conceived together as forming unitary ethnic units. On the other han...
Celtic Art in Europe
The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these disciplines, art history offers the most direct message to a wider audience. This volume of 37 papers brings together a truly international group of pre-eminent specialists in the field of Celtic art and Celtic studies. It is a benchmark volume the like of which has not been seen since the publication of Paul Jacobsthal’s Early Celtic Art in 1944. The papers chart the history of attempts to unders...
A Companion to Ancient Thrace
A Companion to Ancient Thrace presents a series of essays that reveal the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the peoples inhabiting the Balkan periphery of the Classical world. • Features a rich and detailed overview of Thracian history from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity • Includes contributions from leading scholars in the archaeology, art history, and general history of Thrace • Balances consideration of material evidence relating to Ancient Thrace with more traditional literary sources • Integrates a study of Thrace within a broad context that includes the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, southwest Asia, and southeast Europe/Eurasia • Reflects the impact of new theoretical approaches to economy, ethnicity, and cross-cultural interaction and hybridity in Ancient Thrace
Communities and Connections
For almost forty years the study of the Iron Age in Britain has been dominated by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe. Between the 1960s and 1980s he led a series of large-scale excavations at famous sites including the Roman baths at Bath, Fishbourne Roman palace, and Danebury hillfort which revolutionized our understanding of Iron Age society, and the interaction between this world of 'barbarians' and the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean. His standard text on Iron Age Communities in Britain is in its fourth edition, and he has published groundbreaking volumes of synthesis on The Ancient Celts (OUP, 1997) and on the peoples of the Atlantic coast, Facing the Ocean (OUP, 2001). This volume brings together papers from more than thirty of Professor Cunliffe's colleagues and students to mark his retirement from the Chair of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford, a post which he has held since 1972. The breadth of the contributions, extending over 800 years and ranging from the Atlantic fringes to the eastern Mediterranean, is testimony to Barry Cunliffe's own extraordinarily wide interests.
Geschichte und Kultur der Kelten
Mit Bernhard Maier resümiert ein international anerkannter Keltenforscher faktenreich, allgemeinverständlich und auf aktuellem Forschungsstand unser Wissen über keltische Ereignisgeschichte, Siedlungs- und Wirtschaftsformen, Kunst und Handwerk, Handel und Verkehr, Sozialstruktur, Religion, Sprache sowie über Beziehungen von keltischen und mediterranen Kulturen. Die Geschichte der Kelten reicht weiter als zweieinhalb Jahrtausende zurück, und noch heute treffen wir allenthalben auf Zeugnisse ihrer Kultur: Ringwälle, Schanzen und Hügelgräber in der freien Natur, Gebrauchsgegenstände, Schmuck, Waffen - häufig als Grabbeigaben gehoben - in den Museen. Ihr Lebensraum erstreckte sich vom Norden des heutigen Schottlands und von der Iberischen Halbinsel bis ins ferne Kleinasien. Sie erscheinen in zahlreichen antiken Schriftquellen - so in Briefen des Apostels Paulus und in Caesars Werk Über den Gallischen Krieg. All dies hat eine lebendige Detailforschung inspiriert, doch eine systematische Zusammenfassung gesicherten Wissens, wie sie mit diesem Handbuch Bernhard Maier vorlegt, hat bis jetzt gefehlt.
Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy
In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy (1st millennium BCE) focused on the elites, their representation and cultural contacts. The aim of this volume is to look at dependent and marginalized social groups, which are less visible and often even difficult to define (slaves, servants, freedmen, captives, 'foreigners', athletes, women, children etc.). The methodological challenges connected to the study of such heterogeneous and scattered sources are addressed. Is the evidence representative enough for defining different forms of dependencies? Can we rely on written and pictorial sources or do they only reflect Greek and Roman views and iconographic conventions? Which social groups can't be traced in the literary and archaeological record? For the investigation of this topic, we combined historical and epigraphical studies (Greek and Roman literary sources, Etruscan inscriptions) with material culture studies (images, sanctuaries, necropoleis) including anthropological and bioarchaeological methods. These new insights open a new chapter in the study of dependency and social inequality in the societies of Pre-Roman Italy.
Das Museum in Zeiten der Pandemie
Die Coronakrise hat Auswirkungen auf das gesamte kulturelle Leben und wir wissen mittlerweile: Die Pandemie wird uns noch lange begleiten! Wie steht es nun um die Kultur und die Museen? Was sind die wichtigsten Maßnahmen und Entscheidungen für die Zukunft? Und was sind die neuen Prioritäten in Hinblick auf das Ausstellen, Vermitteln, Sammeln, Bewahren und Forschen? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes bieten einen Überblick über den Umgang kleiner bis großer Museen in, mit und nach der Krise. Damit geben sie einen aktuellen Einblick ins Museumsmanagement und zeigen gleichzeitig, dass in einer Krise auch das Potenzial für grundsätzliche Veränderungen und neue Perspektiven steckt — man muss es nur mutig und kreativ angehen.
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research
Network research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban spaces, visibility in past landscapes, material culture similarity, exchange, and much more. This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work for archaeological network research, featuring current topical trends and covering the archaeological application of network methods and theories. This is elaborately demonstrated through substantive topics and case studies drawn from a breadth of periods and cultures in world archaeology. It highlights and further develops the unique contributions made by archaeological research to network science, especially concerning the development of spatial and material culture network methods and approaches to studying long-term network change. This is the go-to resource for students and scholars wishing to explore how network science can be applied in archaeology through an up-to-date overview of the field.
