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Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians - Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe (Paperback)
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Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians - Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe (Paperback)
Series: Debates in Archaeology
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Who were the Iron Age peoples of Europe? Celts, Germans, Scythians
and others are among the names that come to mind. But such names,
and the characteristics associated with them, come to us from
outside observers - Greek and Roman writers - not from the native
peoples themselves. To understand how late prehistoric groups
constructed and expressed their identities, we need to examine the
rich archaeological evidence left by Iron Age Europeans themselves.
Recent theoretical and methodological advances in anthropology,
archaeology and history, together with results of archaeological
research all over Europe, provide the basis for a new approach to
the problem of the identities of Iron Age peoples. Peter Wells uses
patterns of identity revealed in the archaeology to interpret the
commentaries of Greek and Roman authors who conveyed their own
perceptions of these non-literate groups. Finally, he examines ways
in which Iron Age Europeans responded to the Greek and Roman
representations of them. The result was an ever-changing mosaic of
complex and dynamic identities among the diverse peoples of Late
Iron Age Europe.
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