Paths to complexity : centralisation and urbanisation in Iron Age Europe /
Fernández-Götz, Manuel,editor.
Wendling, Holger,editor.
Winger, Katja,editor.
"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. The 21 papers in this volume aim to bring together the latest continental and English-speaking research with contributions by well-established researchers and younger colleagues providing innovative perspectives. 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"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : New perspectives on Iron Age urbanisation / Manuel Fernández-Götz, Holger Wendling and Katja Winger -- Urbanisation in temperate Europe in the Iron Age : Mediterranean influence or indigenous? / John Collis -- Understanding the Heuneburg : a biographical approach / Manuel Fernández-Götz -- Hallstatt urban experience before the Celtic oppida in Central and Eastern Gaul : two cases-studies : Bourges and Vix / Pierre-Yves Milcent -- Places of memory, hero cults and urbanisation during the first Iron Age in southeast Gaul / Raphaël Golosetti -- Oppida and urbanisation processes in Central Europe / Vladimír Salač -- Oppida, production and social status : complexity of the Late La Tène Period in Central Europe / Alžběta Danielisová -- A historical-semantic approach to the concept of 'oppidum' : the example of Bibracte / Dominik Lukas -- Space, architecture and identity in Gaul in the 2nd/1st centuries BC / Sabine Rieckhoff -- Symbolic meanings of Iron Age hill-fort defences in Continental Europe / Caroline von Nicolai -- Roseldorf : an enclosed central settlement of the Early and Middle La Tène Period in Lower Austria (Roseldorf/Němčice Centre) / Veronika Holzer -- Aspects of Iron Age urbanity and urbanism at Manching / Holger Wendling and Katja Winger -- What's in a wall? Considerations on the role of open settlements in Late La Tène Gaul / Tom Moore and Côme Ponroy -- Enlarging Oppida : multipolar town patterns in Late Iron Age Gaul / Matthieu Poux -- Exploring urbanisation in the Southern French Iron Age through integrated geophysical and topographic prospection / Ian Armit, Tim Horsley, Chris Gaffney, Frédéric Marty, Nathan Thomas, Robert Friel, and Ashley Haye -- Interdisciplinary and trinational research into the Late La Tène settlement landscape of the Upper Rhine / Lars Blöck, Andrea Bräuning, Eckhard Deschler-Erb, Andreas Fischer, Yolanda Hecht, Corina Knipper, Reto Marti, Michael Nick, Hannele Rissanen, Norbert Spichtig and Muriel Roth-Zehner -- Caesar's conquest of Gaul : a factor of crisis or consolidation? The Otzenhausen oppidum and its environment / Sabine Hornung -- The emergence of urbanism in Early Iron Age Central Iberia / Jesús Álvarez-Sanchís and Gonzalo Ruiz-Zapatero -- The Celtiberian oppidum of Segeda / Francisco Burillo-Mozota -- Are the developed hillforts of Southern England urban? / Niall Sharples.
"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. The 21 papers in this volume aim to bring together the latest continental and English-speaking research with contributions by well-established researchers and younger colleagues providing innovative perspectives. 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"--Provided by publisher.
Iron age
Urbanization
Complexity (Philosophy)
Social change
Cities and towns, Ancient
Excavations (Archaeology)
Social archaeology
Landscape archaeology
Paths to complexity.