The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through to the early historic periods, exploiting the large quantities of new evidence yielded by the upsurge in archaeological research and excavation on this period over the last thirty years. Three introductory chapters situate the reader in the times and the environments of Iron Age Europe. Fourteen regional chapters provide accessible syntheses of developments in different parts of the continent, from Ireland and Spain in the west to the borders with Asia in the east, from Scandinavia in the north to the Mediterranean shores in the south. Twenty-six thematic chapters examine different aspects of Iron Age archaeology in greater depth, from lifeways, economy, and complexity to identity, ritual, and expression. Among the many topics explored are agricultural systems, settlements, landscape monuments, iron smelting and forging, production of textiles, politics, demography, gender, migration, funerary practices, social and religious rituals, coinage and literacy, and art and design.
Edited by:
Colin Haselgrove (Emeritus Professor of Archaeology Emeritus Professor of Archaeology University of LeicesterEmeritus Professor of Archaeology University of Leicester),
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (Group Leader,
Group Leader,
Austrian Archaeological Institute,
Austrian Academy of ScienceGroup Leader,
Austrian Archaeological Institute,
Austrian Academy of Science),
Peter S. Wells (Professor of Anthropology,
Professor of Anthropology,
University of MinnesotaProfessor of Anthropology,
University of Minnesota)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 180mm,
Spine: 55mm
Weight: 2g
ISBN: 9780199696826
ISBN 10: 0199696829
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 1424
Publication Date: 28 November 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
I: INTRODUCTION 1: Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Peter S. Wells: Introduction: the Iron Age in Europe 2: Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Peter S. Wells: Europe in the Iron Age: landscapes, regions, climate, and people 3: Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Peter S. Wells: Chronology in Iron Age Europe: current approaches and challenges II: REGIONAL SYNTHESES 4: Colin Haselgrove and Sophie Krausz: The British Isles and the near Continent 5: Frands Herschend: Scandinavia and northern Germany 6: Valter Lang: The eastern Baltic 7: Wojciech Nowakowski: Eastern central Europe: between the Elbe and the Dnieper 8: Carola Metzner-Nebelsick: Central Europe 9: Dominique Garcia: Southern France 10: Xosé-Lois Armada and Ignacio Grau Mira: The Iberian Peninsula 11: Raffaele de Marinis and Biba Terzan: The northern Adriatic 12: Lin Foxhall: The central Mediterranean and the Aegean 13: Stefanos Gimatzidis: Northern Greece and the central 14: Aurel Rustoiu: The Carpathian and Danubian area 15: Sabine Reinhold and Valentina Mordvintseva: The northern Black Sea and north Caucasus 16: Ludmila Koryakova: Europe to Asia 17: Naoise Mac Sweeney and Peter S. Wells: Edges and interactions beyond Europe III: THEMES IN IRON AGE ARCHAEOLOGY 18: Hansjörg Küster: Food, foodways, and subsistence 19: Maaike Groot: Animals and animal husbandry 20: Leo Webley: Households and communities 21: Stephan Fichtl: Urbanization and oppida 22: Holger Wendling and Manfred K. H. Eggert: Building landscapes and monuments 23: Timothy Champion: Iron and iron technology 24: Rupert Gebhard: Raw materials, technology, and innovation 25: Fraser Hunter: Material worlds 26: Johanna Banck-Burgess: Textiles and clothing 27: Chris Gosden: Trade and exchange 28: Colin Haselgrove: Coinage and coin use 29: John Collis and Raimund Karl: Politics and power 30: Simon James: Warriors, war, and weapons; or arms, the armed, and armed violence 31: Tom Moore: Wealth, status, and occupation groups 32: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: Horses, wagons, and chariots 33: Michael Gebühr and Stefan Burmeister: Demographic aspects of Iron Age societies 34: Rachel Pope: Gender and society 35: T. L. Thurston: Regions, groups, and identity: an intellectual history 36: Daphne Nash Briggs: Writing, writers, and Iron Age Europe 37: Andrew Fitzpatrick: Migration 38: Adam Rogers: Indigenous communities under Rome 39: Jody Joy: Feasting and commensal rituals 40: Patrice Brun: Funerary practices 41: Ian Armit: Ritual sites, offerings, and sacrifice 42: Miranda Aldhouse-Green: Formal religion 43: Martin Guggisberg: Art on the northern edge of the Mediterranean world
Colin Haselgrove is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. He lectured at Durham University from 1977-2004 and was Professor at Leicester University from 2005 until he retired in 2021. His main interests are in Iron Age studies, settlement landscapes, early coinage, and Roman impact on indigenous societies. He has conducted fieldwork in France, England and Scotland. He is currently working on developing chronologies for Iron Age sites in Wessex, on rural settlement in northern France in the first millennia BC and AD, and on south-east Britain at the time of Julius Caesar's invasions. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Katharina Rebay-Salisbury is an archaeologist with a research focus on the European Bronze and Iron Ages. After completing her PhD in 2005, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Universities of Cambridge and Leicester in the UK, where she participated in research programmes on the human body and networks. In 2015, she was awarded the ERC Starting Grant for her project 'The value of mothers to society: responses to motherhood and child rearing practices in prehistoric Europe'. She directs the research group 'Prehistoric Identities' at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences and teaches at the University of Vienna. Peter S. Wells is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has directed excavations at three settlement sites in southern Germany, recovering materials ranging in time from the Early Bronze Age through the Late Iron Age. His principal interests include interactions between communities, art and visuality, and ritual practices. His recent works include The Battle that Stopped Rome (2003) and Beyond Celts, Germans, and Scythians (2001).
