Different Iron Ages: Studies on the Iron Age in Temperate Europe

Product Description This volume contains fourteen studies providing new perspectives on and material concerning the Iron Age in temperate Europe. Contributors include: P S Wells (The La Tène Period in Germany) ; T Hjorungdal (The Early Iron Age in western Norway) ; E Hamilton (Was there ever a Roman Conquest?) ; J Hill (A contextual study of Iron Age societies and hillforts in southern Britain) ; C Cumberpatch (Production and society in the Later Iron Age of Bohemia anmd Moravia) ; H Parzinger (The begining of La Tène culture in central Europe) ; R Gebhard (The `Celtic' oppidum of Manching and its exchange system) ; P Brun (Oppida and social `compexification' in France) ; G Ferrell (New perspectives on the Iron Age of north-east England) ; P van den Broeke (Iron Age sea salt trade in the Lower Rhine area) ; M Köhler (Hillfort settlement in Hallstatt Thuringia) ; J Webster (Interpretation and the Celtic gods) ; R Hingley (The Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland) . About the Author J.D. Hill is Research Manager in the British Museum and specializes in the Iron Age. Contributors include curatorial experts drawn from the whole range of the British Museum’s collection.