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The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent (Paperback)
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The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent (Paperback)
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The Earlier Iron Age (c. 800-400 BC) has often eluded attention in
British Iron Age studies. Traditionally, we have been enticed by
the wealth of material from the later part of the millennium and by
developments in southern England in particular, culminating in the
arrival of the Romans. The result has been a chronological and
geographical imbalance, with the Earlier Iron Age often
characterised more by what it lacks than what it comprises: for
Bronze Age studies it lacks large quantities of bronze, whilst from
the perspective of the Later Iron Age it lacks elaborate enclosure.
In contrast, the same period on mainland Europe yields a wealth of
burial evidence with links to Mediterranean communities and so has
not suffered in quite the same way. Gradual acceptance of this
problem over the past decade, along with the corpus of new
discoveries produced by developer-funded archaeology, now provides
us with an opportunity to create a more balanced picture of the
Iron Age in Britain as a whole. The twenty-six papers in the book
seek to establish what we now know (and do not know) about Earlier
Iron Age communities in Britain and their neighbours on the
Continent. The authors engage with a variety of current research
themes, seeking to characterise the Earlier Iron Age via the topics
of landscape, environment, and agriculture; material culture and
everyday life; architecture, settlement, and social organisation;
and with the issue of transition - looking at how communities of
the Late Bronze Age transform into those of the Earlier Iron Age,
and how we understand the social changes of the later first
millennium BC. Geographically, the book brings together recent
research from regional studies covering the full length of Britain,
as well as taking us over to Ireland, across the Channel to France,
and then over the North Sea to Denmark, the Low Countries, and
beyond.
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