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The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond (Paperback)
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The nature and causes of the transformation in settlement, social
structure, and material culture that occurred in Britain during the
Later Iron Age (c. 400-300 BC to the Roman conquest) have long been
a focus of research. In the past, however, there was a tendency for
attention to be directed mostly to southern England and the
increased manifestations of Gaulish and Roman influence apparent
there towards the end of this period. For the most part,
developments in other regions were assumed to be secondary in
character and of relatively little significance. Thanks to new
work, this viewpoint can no longer be sustained. Throughout
Britain, the extent and vitality of the social changes taking place
during the later first millennium BC is becoming more apparent, as
is the long-term character of many of the processes involved. The
time is ripe therefore for new narratives of the Later Iron Age to
be created, drawing on the burgeoning material from
developer-funded archaeology and the Portable Antiquities Scheme,
as well as on new methodological and theoretical approaches. The
thirty-one papers collected here seek to re-conceptualise our
visions of Later Iron Age societies in Britain by examining regions
and topics that have received less attention in the past and by
breaking down the artificial barriers often erected between
artefact analysis and landscape studies. Themes considered include
the expansion and enclosure of settlement, production and exchange,
agricultural and social complexity, treatment of the dead, material
culture and identity, at scales ranging from the household to the
supra-regional. At the same time, the inclusion of papers on
Ireland, northern France, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Germany
allows insular Later Iron Age developments to be placed in a wider
geographical context, ensuring that Britain is no longer studied in
isolation.
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