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Iron Age Europe

Hallstatt Textiles BAR S 1351
by Peter Bichler
In 2004 the Austrian village of Hallstatt hosted the first Symposium on Hallstatt textiles, the proceedings of which are published here. Divided into three sections, the detailed and well-illustrated papers focus on material recovered from sites in ...
Paperback. Price GB £39.00

Dying For The Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age and Roman Europe
by Miranda Aldhouse Green
Human sacrifice is almost impossible to prove archaeologically and on the occasions when signs of a violent death can be detected, notably in the case of northern Europe's well preserved bogbodies, alternatives exist, including murder and execution. This highly readable and well-illustrated study, which focuses on the period from 600 BC to AD 400, considers the entire body of evidence from excavations across north western Europe to examine ...
Paperback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £17.99
Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £25.00

An Archaeology of Images: Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe
by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
In dismissing rather passive approaches to material objects that view them as `special items' to be looked at or worshipped, Miranda Aldhouse-Green regards them as `active ideological or social tools' that interacted with and had meaning for their creators and users. In choosing an eclectic set of objects to support her arguments, she opens up a better understanding of the images of people and animals used in the Iron Age and Roman periods, 600 ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.99

Iron Age Echoes: Prehistoric land management and the creation of a funerary landscape - the "twin barrows" at the Echoput in Apeldoorn
edited by David Fontijn, Quentin Bourgeois & Arjen Louwen
Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe's prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how "barrow landscapes" came into being . This book deals with that topic, by presenting the results of archaeological research carried out on a group of just two barrows that crown a small hilltop near the Echoput ("echo-well") in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

In 2007, archaeologists of the Ancestral Mounds ...
Paperback. Price GB £28.00

Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC: Crossing the Divide
edited by Tom Moore and Xose-Lois Armada
European first millennium BC studies have witnessed an increasing theoretical divide between the approaches adopted in different countries. Whilst topics such as ethnicity, identity, and agency have dominated many British studies, such themes have had less resonance in continental approaches. At the same time, British and Iberian first millennium BC studies have become increasingly divorced from research elsewhere in Europe. This volume addresses ...
Hardback. Price GB £105.00

The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities and Interactions
edited by Larissa Bonfante
The Barbarians of Ancient Europe deals with the reality of the indigenous peoples of Europe, in contrast to many publications that explore these peoples in the context of the Greek idea of 'barbarians' as the 'other'. These varied groups - Thracians, Scythians, Celts, Germans, Etruscans, and other peoples of Italy, the Alps, and beyond - had contact with one another and with Greek culture during its flowering. Images on the spectacular gold and ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

Gods of Battle: The Thracians at War, 1500 BC - AD 150
by Chris Webber
The Thracians were famed as warriors throughout the ancient world, and used as mercenaries par excellence in the armies of Greece, Rome and Persia. In this excellent study Chris Webber takes a comprehensive look at this military role, using evidence from all of the latest digs to reconstruct the arms, armour and costume of the Thracian warrior. He goes on to outline military organisation and the logistics of Thracian armies, as well as ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

Siedlungs- und Kustenforschung im Sudlichen Nordseegebiet
edited by Felix Bittmann et al.
Concentrating on the southern North Sea zone, these papers investigate the importance of rivers as communication and trade routes, focusing in the main on the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. Further themes include the identification and role of riverine settlements and landing places and the archaeology of ships and shipping. Essays mostly in German. 393p b/w illus (Verlag Marie Leidorf 2011)
Hardback. Price GB £65.00

Two Iron Age 'Aggregated' Settlements in the Environs of Leicester
by John Thomas
Excavations at Beaumont Leys and Humberstone, on the outskirts of Leicester, revealed two areas of Iron Age 'aggregated' settlement, closely associated with long-lived linear boundaries. Both sides were predominantly involved with livestock farming and are significantly larger than other previously investigated settlements, with Humberstone being the largest Iron Age site yet found in Leicestershire. The scale and longevity of the two sites is ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Caesar's Druids: Story of an Ancient Priesthood
by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Ancient chroniclers, including Julius Caesar himself, made the Druids and their sacred rituals infamous throughout the Western world. But in fact, as Miranda Aldhouse-Green shows in this fascinating book, the Druids' day-to-day lives were far less lurid and much more significant. Exploring the various roles that Druids played in British and Gallic society during the first centuries B.C. and A.D. - not just as priests but as judges, healers, ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00