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Warfare and Violence in the Iron Age of Southern France (Paperback, New)
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Warfare and Violence in the Iron Age of Southern France (Paperback, New)
Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series
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This study aims to identify patterns of warfare in the southern
French Iron Age through examination of the documentary, settlement,
iconographic and osteological evidence for warfare in this region,
each within its chronological context and in tandem with one
another. The Iron Age of southern France remains relatively unknown
in the English-speaking archaeological world. The best known
aspects of the archaeological material suggest a society in which
warfare was an overriding preoccupation. Major, fortified centres,
such as Entremont and Saint-Blaise, and the tradition of 'warrior
statues' like those from Entremont and Roquepertuse, suggest that
conflict was a recurrent theme. Literary sources, such as
Poseidonius have described the indigenous populations of this area
as a volatile and warlike people who took the heads of their
enemies from the battlefield and displayed or preserved them in
their settlements. Finds of skulls, some with nails still embedded
in the bone, appear to verify such reports. The pattern of warfare
which emerges from this analysis is then discussed within some of
the more prominent models of social-anthropological study. This
case study offers a more nuanced and contextual interpretation of
warfare in the southern French Iron Age and demonstrates how, if
treated as a form of social interaction, rather than a breakdown in
social norms, might be integrated into wider archaeological
interpretations of social and political change.
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