Enclosing space, opening new ground : Iron Age studies from Scotland to mainland Europe / Tanja Romankiewicz [and three others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romankiewicz, Tanja, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Europe--Antiquities.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Enclosing Space, Opening New Ground

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, [2019]

Summary:

Enclosures are among the most widely distributed features of the European Iron Age. From fortifications to field systems, they demarcate territories and settlements, sanctuaries and central places, burials and ancestral grounds. This dividing of the physical and the mental landscape between an 'inside' and an 'outside' is investigated anew in a series of essays by some of the leading scholars on the topic. The contributions cover new ground, from Scotland to Spain, between France and the Eurasian steppe, on how concepts and communities were created as well as exploring specific aspects and broader notions of how humans marked, bounded and guarded landscapes in order to connect across space and time. A recurring theme considers how Iron Age enclosures created, curated, formed or deconstructed memory and identity, and how by enclosing space, these communities opened links to an earlier past in order to understand or express their Iron Age presence. In this way, the contributions examine perspectives that are of wider relevance for related themes in different periods.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Bibliography of Professor Ian B. M. Ralston

Enclosing space and opening new ground inIron Age studies: An introduction

Block 1: Building enclosures

Chapter 1: Does fortified always equate to defensive? Some thoughts on the fortification systems of the Glauberg hillfort

Chapter 2: De Architectura Celtica: déclinaisons insolites du Murus Gallicus

Chapter 3: Julius Caesar’s assault ramp at the Oppidum of Avaricum in 52 BC

Chapter 4: How many hillforts are there in Scotland? Revisited

Block 2: Creating settlement communities

Chapter 5: The hillfort on Mount Ipf: A centre of power during the Bronze and Iron Ages in southern Germany

Chapter 6: Oram’s Arbour, Winchester: A new interpretation

Chapter 7: A new look at the Late Prehistoric settlement patterns of the Forth Valley

Chapter 8: Enclosure, autonomy and anarchy in Iron Age Scotland

Chapter 9: Exploring settlement dynamics through radiocarbon dating

Chapter 10: Oppida in Britain in the face of the Roman conquest

Block 3: Marking landscapes through time

Chapter 11: Atlantic-zone hillforts with up-right stone rows and their relationship with coastal routes

Chapter 12: Making mounds: monuments in Eurasian prehistory

Chapter 13: Urbanism and identity in Celtic Iberia. What did it mean to be aVetton, Vaccaean or Carpetanian in Late Iron Age oppida?

Chapter 14: L’enclos comme expression du pouvoir desaristocrates sur la campagne

Chapter 15: Memoryscapes in Late Iron Age northern Gaul:warfare and sacrifice from Ribemont to Titelberg Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781789252026

1789252024

9781789252040

1789252040

OCLC:

1430659415