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Iron Age-Roman Europe

Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne
by I M Stead, J-L Flouest and Valery Rigby
This volume reports on the excavation of a series of six Iron Age cemeteries in Champagne, France: Ménil-Annelles, Ville-sur-Retourne, Juniville, Alincourt, Saulces-Champenoises and Quilly. All the Champagne cemeteries were located via their distinctive ditched enclosures which served as the focus of each burial group. The excavations were conducted by an Anglo-French team of archaeologists between 1971 and 1982. In this report they describe ...
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Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology
by John T. Koch
The inscription from Mesas do Castelinho, south Portugal, was discovered in September 2008. With 82 readable signs it is now the longest of the corpus of 95 Tartessian inscriptions. These texts survive from the Early Iron Age in the south-western Iberian Peninsula, the earliest writing from Atlantic Europe. By recombining word roots, prefixes and endings previously attested, the new inscription permits a major breakthrough with the language, ...
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Fiskerton: An Iron Age Timber Causeway with Iron Age and Roman Votive Offerings
Field, N.
Fiskerton, located in the Witham valley of Lincoln, is one of only a handful of excavated sites in Europe to reveal the Iron Age practice of ritually destroying special and elite objects by placing them in a body of water. This volume reports on the 1981 excavations on the bank of the River Witham and provides fascinating insights into this important aspect of Iron Age religion and culture. A remarkable group of Iron Age and Roman artefacts was ...
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The Search for the Durotriges: Dorset and the West Country in the Late Iron Age
by Martin Papworth
This book considers the evidence for the Durotriges, one of the groups of people listed by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. Traditionally it has been believed that the Durotrigans formed a tribe whose territory included Dorset and parts of neighbouring Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. More recent commentators identify significant differences between the communities living within this Durotrigan area. This survey of the region ...
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Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France
by Michael Dietler
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, Michael Dietler explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. He shows how selective consumption ...
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Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region
edited by Hauke Jons, Matthias D. Schon and W. Haio Zimmermann
This volume presents 18 contributions on the theme "Herrenhofe and the hierarchy of power in the region to the south and east of the North Sea from the pre-Roman Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages and the Viking Age". They aim to shed light on how social hierarchy was expressed in built structures during this period and in particular in the Herrenhof or "magnates farms". 10 papers in English, 8 in German. 299p b/w illus (Verlag Marie Leidorf ...
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Landesarchaologie: Festschrift fur Dieter Planck
edited by Jorg Biel, Jorg Heiligmann and Dirk Krausse
This large festschrift is organised in two parts. The first contains the latest archaeological research on south-west Germany, with a marked focus on the Iron Age and Roman periods. The second contains contributions on the care, conservation and restoration of archaeological monuments. German text. 740p b/w and col illus (Konrad Theiss Verlag 2009)
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Late Iron Age and Romano-British Landscape of Gunhills, Armsthorpe, South Yorkshire
by J. Richardson
An agricultural and industrial Romano-British landscape east of Armthorpe, Doncaster has been extensively investigated during the last decade to reveal enclosures, a 'brickwork plan' of field systems, hearths, oven/kilns, a well and creemations. Here a rural communitywas involved with livestock husbandry, cereal production, coppicing and ironworking. Its origins (perhaps unenclosed) are likely to be Late Iron Age in date, although the ...
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Iron Age and Roman Settlement on the Northamptonshire Uplands: Archaeological work on the A43 Towcester to M40 Road Improvement scheme in Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire
by Andrew Mudd
Archaeological excavations in advance of the construction of the new A43 dual carriageway between Towcester and the M40, in both Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, were carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology in 2000 and 2001 in accordance with Highways Agency requirements. Excavations were undertaken on five settlement sites four dating to the Iron Age/early Roman period, and one to the Roman period. Three of the Iron Age sites, each of a ...
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Iron Age and Romano-British Settlements and Landscapes of Salisbury Plain
by M G Fulford, A B Powell, R Entwistle and F Raymond
This volume presents the results of a series of fieldwalking surveys and excavations of Iron Age and Romano-British sites in two areas of the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Altogether some 18 new settlement sites were discovered of which 13 were Romano-British, three were predominantly Iron Age, and two produced evidence of Middle-Late Bronze Age occupation. Small-scale excavation was undertaken at eight enclosures and field systems, accompanied ...
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