The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through to the early historic periods, exploiting the large quantities of new evidence yielded by the upsurge in archaeological research and excavation on this period over the last thirty years. Three introductory chapters situate the reader in the times and the environments of Iron Age Europe. Fourteen regional chapters
provide accessible syntheses of developments in different parts of the continent, from Ireland and Spain in the west to the borders with Asia in the east, from Scandinavia in the north to the Mediterranean
shores in the south. Twenty-six thematic chapters examine different aspects of Iron Age archaeology in greater depth, from lifeways, economy, and complexity to identity, ritual, and expression. Among the many topics explored are agricultural systems, settlements, landscape monuments, iron smelting and forging, production of textiles, politics, demography, gender, migration, funerary practices, social and religious rituals, coinage and literacy, and art and design.
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through to the early historic periods, exploiting the large quantities of new evidence yielded by the upsurge in archaeological research and excavation on this period over the last thirty years. Three introductory chapters situate the reader in the times and the environments of Iron Age Europe. Fourteen regional chapters
provide accessible syntheses of developments in different parts of the continent, from Ireland and Spain in the west to the borders with Asia in the east, from Scandinavia in the north to the Mediterranean
shores in the south. Twenty-six thematic chapters examine different aspects of Iron Age archaeology in greater depth, from lifeways, economy, and complexity to identity, ritual, and expression. Among the many topics explored are agricultural systems, settlements, landscape monuments, iron smelting and forging, production of textiles, politics, demography, gender, migration, funerary practices, social and religious rituals, coinage and literacy, and art and design.
I: INTRODUCTION
1: Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Peter S. Wells:
Introduction: the Iron Age in Europe
2: Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Peter S. Wells:
Europe in the Iron Age: landscapes, regions, climate, and
people
3: Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, and Peter S. Wells:
Chronology in Iron Age Europe: current approaches and
challenges
II: REGIONAL SYNTHESES
4: Colin Haselgrove and Sophie Krausz: The British Isles and the
near Continent
5: Frands Herschend: Scandinavia and northern Germany
6: Valter Lang: The eastern Baltic
7: Wojciech Nowakowski: Eastern central Europe: between the Elbe
and the Dnieper
8: Carola Metzner-Nebelsick: Central Europe
9: Dominique Garcia: Southern France
10: Xosé-Lois Armada and Ignacio Grau Mira: The Iberian
Peninsula
11: Raffaele de Marinis and Biba Terzan: The northern Adriatic
12: Lin Foxhall: The central Mediterranean and the Aegean
13: Stefanos Gimatzidis: Northern Greece and the central
14: Aurel Rustoiu: The Carpathian and Danubian area
15: Sabine Reinhold and Valentina Mordvintseva: The northern Black
Sea and north Caucasus
16: Ludmila Koryakova: Europe to Asia
17: Naoise Mac Sweeney and Peter S. Wells: Edges and interactions
beyond Europe
III: THEMES IN IRON AGE ARCHAEOLOGY
18: Hansjörg Küster: Food, foodways, and subsistence
19: Maaike Groot: Animals and animal husbandry
20: Leo Webley: Households and communities
21: Stephan Fichtl: Urbanization and oppida
22: Holger Wendling and Manfred K. H. Eggert: Building landscapes
and monuments
23: Timothy Champion: Iron and iron technology
24: Rupert Gebhard: Raw materials, technology, and innovation
25: Fraser Hunter: Material worlds
26: Johanna Banck-Burgess: Textiles and clothing
27: Chris Gosden: Trade and exchange
28: Colin Haselgrove: Coinage and coin use
29: John Collis and Raimund Karl: Politics and power
30: Simon James: Warriors, war, and weapons; or arms, the armed,
and armed violence
31: Tom Moore: Wealth, status, and occupation groups
32: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: Horses, wagons, and chariots
33: Michael Gebühr and Stefan Burmeister: Demographic aspects of
Iron Age societies
34: Rachel Pope: Gender and society
35: T. L. Thurston: Regions, groups, and identity: an intellectual
history
36: Daphne Nash Briggs: Writing, writers, and Iron Age Europe
37: Andrew Fitzpatrick: Migration
38: Adam Rogers: Indigenous communities under Rome
39: Jody Joy: Feasting and commensal rituals
40: Patrice Brun: Funerary practices
41: Ian Armit: Ritual sites, offerings, and sacrifice
42: Miranda Aldhouse-Green: Formal religion
43: Martin Guggisberg: Art on the northern edge of the
Mediterranean world
Colin Haselgrove is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the
University of Leicester. He lectured at Durham University from
1977-2004 and was Professor at Leicester University from 2005 until
he retired in 2021. His main interests are in Iron Age studies,
settlement landscapes, early coinage, and Roman impact on
indigenous societies. He has conducted fieldwork in France, England
and Scotland. He is currently working on developing chronologies
for
Iron Age sites in Wessex, on rural settlement in northern France in
the first millennia BC and AD, and on south-east Britain at the
time of Julius Caesar's invasions. He is a Fellow of the British
Academy. Katharina
Rebay-Salisbury is an archaeologist with a research focus on the
European Bronze and Iron Ages. After completing her PhD in 2005,
she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Universities of Cambridge
and Leicester in the UK, where she participated in research
programmes on the human body and networks. In 2015, she was awarded
the ERC Starting Grant for her project 'The value of mothers to
society: responses to motherhood and child rearing practices in
prehistoric Europe'. She
directs the research group 'Prehistoric Identities' at the Austrian
Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences and teaches at
the University of Vienna. Peter S. Wells is Professor of
Anthropology at the
University of Minnesota. He has directed excavations at three
settlement sites in southern Germany, recovering materials ranging
in time from the Early Bronze Age through the Late Iron Age. His
principal interests include interactions between communities, art
and visuality, and ritual practices. His recent works include The
Battle that Stopped Rome (2003) and Beyond Celts, Germans, and
Scythians (2001).
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