Part I: Archaeology
1. Celticization from the West: The Contribution of Archaeology
(Barry Cunliffe)
2. The Celts from Everywhere and Nowhere: A Re-evaluation of the
Origins of the Celts and the Emergence of Celtic Cultures (Raimund
Karl)
3. Ancillary Study: New Discovered Inscriptions from the South-west
of the Iberian Peninsula (Amílcar Guerra)
Part II: Genetics
4. Western Celts? A Genetic Impression of Britain in Atlantic
Europe (Ellen C. Røyrvik)
5. Irish Genetics and Celts (Brian P. McEvoy and Daniel G.
Bradley)
6. A Reanalysis of Multiple Prehistoric Immigrations to Britain and
Ireland Aimed at Identifying the Celtic Contributions (Stephen
Oppenheimer)
Part III: Language and Literature
7. The Origins of the Celtic Languages: Language Spread from East
to West (G. R. Isaac)
8. Tracking the Course of the Savage Tongue: Place-names and
Linguistic Diffusion in Early Britain (David N. Parsons)
9. Paradigm Shift? Interpreting Tartessian as Celtic (John T.
Koch)
10. Ancillary Study: Ancient References to Tartessos (Philip M.
Freeman)
11. Ancillary Study: The Problem of Lusitanian (Dagmar S. Wodtko
Barry Cunliffe was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. He has worked on many of the iconic British excavations including Fishbourne Roman Palace, Danebury Hillfort and Hengistbury Head. He is an authority on the Iron Age and the Celts, and the author of many scholarly and popular publications including The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe, Britain Begins, and The Celts, A Very Short Introduction. Professor John Koch is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales. His interests include the languages, literatures, and civilizations of the early Celtic peoples from prehistory through the early Middle Ages. His works have developed original ideas in such fields as the earliest Welsh poetry, the Mabinogi, Continental Celtic, Irish saga literature, St Patrick, the classical authors’ descriptions of the ancient Celts, and Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeology. He is the author of groundbreaking volumes, such as The Gododdin of Aneirin and The Celtic Heroic Age , has co-authored major innovative works, such as The Inscriptions of Early Medieval Brittany , and has contributed widely to international volumes and journals. He is the co-editor of all three Celtic from the West volumes.
Its fair to say that this book succeeds in re-thinking preceding ideas about Celts in a very approachable (and visually satisfying) way. In the introduction the authors set themselves the challenge of 'stimulating a breadth of original thinking, rather than launching an Atlantic Celtic thesis as a manifesto'. The breadth of scholarly writing here ensures the volume achieves that aim with considerable gusto.' -- Current World Archaeology Current World Archaeology The arguments are complex, and involve, as Barry says, leaving the comfort and familiarity of archaeological concepts to try to understand the methods of linguists and geneticists, but the book presents a powerful body of evidence from these sources to suggest that proto-Celtic came from the eastern Mediterranean with Bronze-Age traders seeking metal ores, and that it became the lingua franca of the mining and trading communities of the Atlantic tin trade, which might help to explain the apparent anomaly of a Phoenician gene marker being found in DNA samples from people living on Anglesey.' -- SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newslett SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newslett Its great strength is that it is multidisciplinary, consisting of chapters by archaeologists, geneticists and philologists... Overall, whatever you may think about the 'Celtic debate', this is an important book that provides easy access to multiple strands of evidence.' -- British Archaeology British Archaeology ...Koch's analysis reflects the authors superior scholarship...' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review Nominated for 2011 Book of the Year by Current Archaeology: This agenda-setting volume suggests Celtic speakers came not from Iron Age central Europe but rather from the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean.' -- Current Archaeology Current Archaeology
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