Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Part 1. Crossing the divide
1: Tom MOORE and Xosé-Lois ARMADA: Crossing the Divide: opening a dialogue on approaches to Western European first millennium BC studies
Part 2. Landscape studies
2: Gonzalo RUIZ ZAPATERO: Settlement and landscape in Iron Age Europe: archaeological mainstreams and minorities
3: William MEYER and Carole L. CRUMLEY: Historical ecology: using what works to cross the divide
4: Sebastián CELESTINO PÉREZ, Victorino MAYORAL HERRERA, José Ángel SALGADO CARMONA and Rebeca CAZORLA MARTÍN: Stelae iconography and landscape in south-west Iberia
5: Ignacio GRAU MIRA: Landscape dynamics, political processes and social strategies in the eastern Iberian Iron Age
6: Oliver DAVIS: A re-examination of three Wessex type sites: Little Woodbury, Gussage All Saints and Winnall Down
7: Francisco SANDE LEMOS, Gonçalo CRUZ, João FONTE and Joana VALDEZ: Landscape in the Late Iron Age of north-western Portugal
8: Pierre NOUVEL: La Tène and early Gallo-Roman settlement in central Gaul. An examination of the boundary between the Aedui, Lingoni and Senoni (Northern Burgundy, France)
Part 3. The social modelling of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Societies
9: John COLLIS: Reconstructing Iron Age Society revisited
10: How did British Middle and Late Pre-Roman Iron Age societies work (if they did)a
11: Inés SASTRE PRATS: Social inequality during the Iron Age: interpretation models
12: Francisco Javier GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA, César PARCERO-OUBIÑA and Xurxo AYÁN VILA: Iron Age societies against the state. An account on the emergence of the Iron Age in north-western Iberia
13: Guy DE MULDER and Jean BOURGEOIS: Shifting centres of power and changing elite symbolism in the Scheldt fluvial basin during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age
14: Rebecca PEAKE, Valérie DELATTRE and Régis ISSENMANN: Examples of social modelling in the Seine valley during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age
15: Raimund KARL: Becoming Welsh. Modelling first millennium BC societies in Wales and the Celtic context
16: Dimitri MATHIOT: Person, family and community: the social structure of Iron Age societies seen through the organization of their housing in north-western Europe
17: Rachel POPE and Ian RALSTON: Approaching sex and status in Iron Age Britain with reference to the nearer continent
Part 4. Continuity and change
18: Barbara R. ARMBRUSTER: Approaches to metalwork - the role of technology in tradition, innovation and cultural change
19: John C. BARRETT, Mark BOWDEN and David McOMISH: The problem of continuity: re-assessing the shape of the British Iron Age sequence
20: Katharina BECKER: Iron Age Ireland: continuity, change and identity
21: Jody JOY: Exploring status and identity in Later Iron Age Britain: reinterpreting mirror burials
22: Jesús F. JORDÁ PARDO, Carlos MARÍN SUÁREZ and Javier GARCÍA-GUINEA: Discovering San Chuis hillfort (northern Spain): archaeometry, craft technologies and social interpretation
23: Alicia JIMÉNEZ DÍEZ: Changing to remain the same. The southern Iberian Peninsula between the third and the first centuries BC
Part 5. Rhythms of life and death
24: Robert VAN DE NOORT: Crossing the divide in the first millennium BC: a study into the cultural biographies of boats
25: Leonardo GARCÍA SANJUÁN: The warrior stelae of the Iberian south-west. Symbols of power in ancestral landscapes
26: Miguel Ángel ARNÁIZ ALONSO and Juan MONTERO GUTIÉRREZ: Funerary expression and ideology in the Cogotas culture settlements in the northern Meseta of the Iberian Peninsula
27: Raimon GRAELLS FABREGAT: Warriors and heroes from the northeast of Iberia: a view from the funerary contexts
28: Ian ARMIT: Headhunting and social power in Iron Age Europe
29: Valérie DELATTRE: The ritual representation of the body during the Late Iron Age in northern France
Part 6. Exploring European research traditions
30: Richard HINGLEY: Iron Age knowledge: Pre-Roman peoples and myths of origin
31: Adam ROGERS: Exploring Late Iron Age settlement in Britain and the near Continent: Reading Edward Gibbon s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and examining the significance of landscape, place, and water in settlement studies
32: Guillermo-Sven REHER DÍEZ: The introduction to ethnicity-syndrome in protohistorical archaeology
33: Niall SHARPLES: Boundaries, status and conflict: An exploration of Iron Age research in the 20th century

About the Author

Tom Moore is Lecturer in Archaeology at Durham University. His research focuses on the Iron Age in western Europe, particularly the Late Iron Age-Roman transition. Xosé-Lois Armada is a Post-doctoral Researcher in The Heritage Laboratory (LaPa) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His research focuses on the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in western Europe, dealing with issues such as metallurgy, rituals of feasting, and the history of archaeology.

Reviews

an important volume with many interesting contributions and an excellent introductory paper by the editors ... [a] highly interesting and stimulating book
*Manuel Fernández-Götz, European Journal of ArchaeologyPETER S. WELLS Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota*