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Celts from antiquity / edited by Gillian Carr & Simon Stoddart.

Contributor(s): Carr, Gillian | Stoddart, Simon
Publisher: Cambridge : Antiquity Publications, 2002.Description: 338 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0953976211Subject(s): Civilization, Celtic | Mythology, Celtic | Celts -- History | Europe -- Antiquities, Celtic | Great Britain -- Antiquities, CelticDDC classification: 936.4 LOC classification: D70 | .C455 2002
Contents:
1. "Celticity". The origin of the Kelts / G. Kraft -- Ancient Celts and modern ethnicity / J.V.S. Megaw & M.R. Megaw -- Celtic myths / John Collins -- Celts, politics and motivation in archaeology / Simon James -- "The mechanism of (Celtic) dreams?" : a partial response to our critics / J.V.S. Megaw & M.R. Megaw -- 2. Continental Europe. A hill-fort in Switzerland / Gerhard Bersu -- The oppidum of Manching / Werner Krämer -- An anthropomorphic Hallstatt stele from Germany / Hartwig Zürn -- The Vix burial / J.V.S. Megaw -- The late Hallstatt chieftan's grave at Hochdorf / J. Biel -- Central Gaul at the Roman conquest : conceptions and misconceptions / I. Ralston -- The origin of the Gundestrup Cauldron / Anders Bergquist & Timothy Taylor -- 3. The southern British Iron Age. The ABC of the British Iron Age / Christopher Hawkes -- Archaeology and modern times : Bersu's Woodbury 1938 and 1939 / C. Evans -- A prehistoric metropolis : the first Verulamium / R.E.M. Wheeler -- Excavations at Cadbury-Camelot, 1966-70 / Leslie Alcock -- The Iron Age settlement of Gussage All Saints / Geoffrey Wainwright & Mansel Spratling -- East Chisenbury : ritual and rubbish at the British Bronze Age - Iron Age transition / David McOmish -- The Snettisham Treasure : excavations in 1990 / I.M. Stead -- The Snettisham, Norfolk, hoards of Iron Age torques : sacred or profane? / A.P. Fitzpatrick -- Three cart burials from Wetwang, Yorkshire / John Dent -- A Catuvellaunian chieftan's burial from St. Albans / Rosalind Niblett -- 4. The Scottish Iron Age. Brochs and the Hebridean Iron Age / Euan W. MacKie -- That tower of Scottish prehistory - the broch / John W. Hedges & Bernard Bell -- Analysis of spatial patterns in buildings / Sally M. Foster -- Brochs and Iron Age society : a reappraisal / Mike Parker Pearson, Niall Sharples & Jacqui Mulville -- Whither Celts? / Gillian Carr & Simon Stoddart.

Includes bibliographic references (p. [333]-338).

1. "Celticity". The origin of the Kelts / G. Kraft -- Ancient Celts and modern ethnicity / J.V.S. Megaw & M.R. Megaw -- Celtic myths / John Collins -- Celts, politics and motivation in archaeology / Simon James -- "The mechanism of (Celtic) dreams?" : a partial response to our critics / J.V.S. Megaw & M.R. Megaw -- 2. Continental Europe. A hill-fort in Switzerland / Gerhard Bersu -- The oppidum of Manching / Werner Krämer -- An anthropomorphic Hallstatt stele from Germany / Hartwig Zürn -- The Vix burial / J.V.S. Megaw -- The late Hallstatt chieftan's grave at Hochdorf / J. Biel -- Central Gaul at the Roman conquest : conceptions and misconceptions / I. Ralston -- The origin of the Gundestrup Cauldron / Anders Bergquist & Timothy Taylor -- 3. The southern British Iron Age. The ABC of the British Iron Age / Christopher Hawkes -- Archaeology and modern times : Bersu's Woodbury 1938 and 1939 / C. Evans -- A prehistoric metropolis : the first Verulamium / R.E.M. Wheeler -- Excavations at Cadbury-Camelot, 1966-70 / Leslie Alcock -- The Iron Age settlement of Gussage All Saints / Geoffrey Wainwright & Mansel Spratling -- East Chisenbury : ritual and rubbish at the British Bronze Age - Iron Age transition / David McOmish -- The Snettisham Treasure : excavations in 1990 / I.M. Stead -- The Snettisham, Norfolk, hoards of Iron Age torques : sacred or profane? / A.P. Fitzpatrick -- Three cart burials from Wetwang, Yorkshire / John Dent -- A Catuvellaunian chieftan's burial from St. Albans / Rosalind Niblett -- 4. The Scottish Iron Age. Brochs and the Hebridean Iron Age / Euan W. MacKie -- That tower of Scottish prehistory - the broch / John W. Hedges & Bernard Bell -- Analysis of spatial patterns in buildings / Sally M. Foster -- Brochs and Iron Age society : a reappraisal / Mike Parker Pearson, Niall Sharples & Jacqui Mulville -- Whither Celts? / Gillian Carr & Simon Stoddart.