Fingerprinting the Iron Age : approaches to identity in the European Iron Age. Integrating South-Eastern Europe into the debate / [edited by] Catalin Nicolae Popa and Simon Stoddart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Popa, Cătălin Nicolae, editor, author.

Stoddart, Simon, editor, author.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron age--Europe.

Iron age.

Social structure.

History.

Group identity.

Social archaeology.

Europe.

Social archaeology--Europe.

Group identity--Europe--History.

Social structure--Europe--History.

Europe--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 428 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction: the challenge of Iron Age identity / Simon Stoddart and Catalin Nicolae Popa

Part I. Perspectives from south east Europe

The coexistence and interference of the late iron age Transylvanian communities / Sándor Berecki

Identities of the early Iron Age in north-eastern Slovenia / Matija Crenar and DimitrijMleku

Royal bodies, invisible victims: gender in the funerary record of late Iron Age and early Hellenistic Thrace / Bela Dimova

Mediterranean wine and Dacian conviviality: ancient and modern myths and archaeological evidence / Mariana Egri

Sarmizegetusa regia: the identity of a royal site? / Gelu Florea

The ethnic construction of early Iron Age burials in Transylvania: Scythians, Agathyrsi or Thracians? / Alexandra Ghenghea

Negotiating identities at the edge of the Roman Empire / Marko A. Jankovic

Tracing ethnicity backwards: the case of the central Balkan tribes / Vladimir D. Mihajlovic

The quest for group identity in late Iron Age Romania: statistical reconstruction of groups based on funerary evidence / Catalin Nicolae Popa

Changing identities of the Iron Age communities of southern Pannonia / Yvonne Inall, Hrvoje Potrebica and Marko Dizdar

Indigenous and colonist communities in the eastern Carpathianbasin at the beginning of the late Iron Age: the genesis of an eastern Celtic world / Aurel Rustoiu

Ancient Thrace between the east and the west / Nikola Theodossiev

"Hellenisation" and ethnicity in the continental Balkan Iron Age / Ivan Vranic

Part II. Perspectives from the west

Central places and the construction of collective identities in the middle Rhine-Moselle region / Manuel Fernández-Götz

Fingerprinting Iron Age communities in south-west Germany and an integrative theory of culture / Oliver Nakoinz

Iron Age identities in central Europe: some initial approaches / Peter C. Ramsl

Part III. Perspectives from the far west

Negotiating identity on the edge of empire / Louisa Campbell

Personal adornment in Iron Age Britain: the case of the missing glass beads / Elizabeth Foulds

Part IV. Perspectives from the south west

Spoiling for a fight: using spear typologies to identify aspects of warrior identity and fighting style in Iron Age south Italy

Communal vs. individual: the role of identity in the burials of Peucetia / Olivia Kelley

A view from the south (west): identity in Tyrrhenian central Italy / Simon Stoddart

Part V. Synthesis

Identity, integration, power relations and the study of the European Iron Age: implications from Serbia / Staa Babic

The Celts: more myths and inventions / John Collis

Material culture and identity: the problem of identifying Celts, Germans and Romans in late Iron Age Europe / Peter Wells

Fingerprinting the European Iron Age: historical, cultural andintellectual perspectives on identity and ethnicity / Catalin Nicolae Popa and Simon Stoddart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Fingerprinting the Iron Age.

ISBN:

1782976752

OCLC:

870987148

Publisher Number:

99961706209