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The Iron Age in Britain, 2 volume set: The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent, and, The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond

edited by Colin Haselgrove, with Rachel Pope and Tom Moore

The Earlier Iron Age (c. 800-400 BC) has twenty-six papers which 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. The Later Iron Age (c. 400-300 BC to the Roman conquest) has thirty-one papers here detailing the more popularly studied era in history but which attempt to re-conceptualise our visions of Later Iron Age societies in Britain by examining regions and topics that have received less attention in the past and by breaking down the artificial barriers often erected between artefact analysis and landscape studies. Themes considered include the expansion and enclosure of settlement, production and exchange, agricultural and social complexity, treatment of the dead, material culture and identity, at scales ranging from the household to the supra-regional. At the same time, the inclusion of papers on Ireland, northern France, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Germany allows insular Later Iron Age developments to be placed in a wider geographical context, ensuring that Britain is no longer studied in isolation. 416p and 512p (Oxbow Books 2007)

Related Titles

• The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond
  edited by Colin Haselgrove and Tom Moore

• The Earlier Iron Age in Britian and the Near Continent
  edited by Colin Haselgrove and Rachel Pope

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