Exploring the origins of urbanism the emergence and development of the first cities, has long constituted one of the main challenges of archaeological and ancient historical research. Studying cities in a long-term and cross-cultural perspective links the past with the present, allowing a better understanding of one of the most important developments in human history. Moreover, archaeological research on ancient cities can contribute to a better understanding of contemporary processes of urbanisation. The 21 papers in this volume aim bring together the latest continental and English-speaking research with contributions by well-established researchers and younger colleagues providing innovative perspectives. The whole Iron Age ca. 800 BC to the beginning of the Common Era is considered on an international basis to consider such topics as the similarities and differences observed between centralisation and urbanisation processes of the Early and Late Iron Age; new approaches to the internal organisation of settlements and their formation processes; the supply management of central places and economic support from their environment; and the crucial role of sanctuaries in the formation of urban settlements. Contributions cover an area stretching from central Spain to Moravia and from southern France to Britain. The aim has been to produce a work of reference for readers interested in Iron Age archaeology in particular, and in urbanisation processes in general.
The 21 papers in this volume cover the whole Iron Age from ca. 800 BC to the beginning of the Common Era, exploring the origins of urbanism.
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The present volume.boasts several traits that put it ahead of the rest: first, it successfully covers all of the most significant new developments in both Eastern and Western Europe, during both the Early and Late Iron Ages. Secondly, written entirely in English, it has the merit of rendering accessible to the English-speaking scholarly community the latest news on continental research.
.it is rich in information and clearly presented. * Antiquity *
| Foreword Prof. Michael E. Smith |
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Grand Narratives: The Rise Of Urbanism In Temperate Europe |
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1 Introduction: New Perspectives on Iron Age Urbanisation |
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2 Urbanisation in Temperate Europe in the Iron Age: Mediterranean Influence or Indigenous? |
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Towns Before The Oppida: Centralisation Processes In The Early Iron Age |
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3 Understanding the Heuneburg: A Biographical Approach |
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4 Hallstatt Urban Experience before the Celtic Oppida in Central and Eastern Gaul. Two Cases-Studies: Bourges and Vix |
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5 Places of Memory, Hero Cults and Urbanisation during the First Iron Age in Southeast Gaul |
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Modelling Complexity: Villages And Cities In Late Iron Age Europe |
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6 Oppida and Urbanisation Processes in Central Europe |
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7 Oppida, Production and Social Status - Complexity of the Late La Tene Period in Central Europe |
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8 A Historical-Semantic Approach to the Concept of 'Oppidum'. The Example of Bibracte |
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9 Space, Architecture and Identity in Gaul in the 2nd/1st centuries BC |
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10 Symbolic Meanings of Iron Age Hillfort Defences in Continental Europe |
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Open Agglomerations And Fortified Centres: From Sites To Landscapes |
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11 Roseldorf -- An Enclosed Central Settlement of the Early and Middle La Tene Period in Lower Austria (Roseldorf/Nemcice Centre) |
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12 Aspects of Iron Age Urbanity and Urbanism at Manching |
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13 What's in a Wall? Considerations on the Role of Open Settlements in Late La Tene Gaul |
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14 Enlarging Oppida: Multipolar Town Patterns in Late Iron Age Gaul |
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15 Exploring Urbanisation in the Southern French Iron Age through Integrated Geophysical and Topographic Prospection |
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16 Interdisciplinary and Trinational Research into the Late La Tene Settlement Landscape of the Upper Rhine |
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17 Caesar's Conquest of Gaul -- A Factor of Crisis or Consolidation? The Otzenhausen Oppidum and its Environment |
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At The Edge Of The World? Iberia And Britain |
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18 The Emergence of Urbanism in Early Iron Age Central Iberia |
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19 The Celtiberian Oppidum of Segeda |
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20 Are the Developed Hillforts of Southern England Urban? |
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Manuel Fernįndez-Götz is Reader in European Archaeology and Head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored ca. 200 publications and held visiting scholar positions at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Brown, among others. His main research interests are Iron Age societies in Central and Western Europe, the archaeology of identities, and conflict archaeology. He has directed fieldwork projects in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Croatia. Dr. Holger Wendling is Head of the Department of Archaeology at the Salzburg Museum and the Dürrnberg Research Department at the Keltenmuseum Hallein. He studied at the University of Tübingen and at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, developing a strong interest in the Iron Age of temperate Europe. His current research focuses on settlement structures and burials at the Iron Age site of Dürrnberg in Austria, also integrating the Bronze and Iron Age evidence in the wider Salzburg area. Katja Winger is based at the Prehistory Department, Freie Universität Berlin.
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