num_pages: 480
description: The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. Celts) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is to explore from the perspectives of three disciplinesarchaeology genetics and linguisticsthe background in later European prehistory to these developments. There is a traditional scenario according to which Celtic speech and the associated group identity came in to being during the Early Iron Age in the north Alpine zone and then rapidly spread across central and western Europe. This idea of Celtogenesis remains deeply entrenched in scholarly and popular thought. But it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile with recent discoveries pointing towards origins in the deeper past. It should no longer be taken for granted that Atlantic Europe during the 2nd and 3rd millennia BC were pre-Celtic or even pre-Indo-European. The explorations in Celtic from the West 3 are drawn together in this spirit continuing two earlier volumes in the influential series.Table of Contents John Koch &amp; Barry CunliffePart Archaeology1. Laure Behind the Bell Beakers and identities in Atlantic Europe (3rd millennium BC)2. Stuart The Lost Cultures of the Halberd a non-Beaker ideology in later third millennium Atlantic Europe 3. Catriona Closed for Business or Cultural Change? Tracing the re-use and final blocking of megalithic tombs during the Beaker period4. Simon Copper mining prospection and the Beaker phenomenon in Wales  the significance of the Banc Tynddol gold disc5. Kerri Burial practices in Ireland during the late third millennium BCconnecting new ideologies with local expressions.6. Dirk Stelae funerary practice and group identities in the Bronze and Iron Ages of SW a moyenne dure perspective7. William O Language Shift and Political Context in Late Bronze Age some implications of hillfort chronology8. Peter Metal Metalwork and the chemical composition of British Bronze Age swords in context9. Raimund Emerging Settlement Monumentality in North Wales during the Late Bronze and Iron the case of Meillionydd10. Adam Gwilt Mark Lodwick Jody Deacon Nicholas Wells Richard Madgwick and Tim Ephemeral Abundance at Exploring the residues and resonances of an Earliest Iron Age midden and its associated archaeological context in the Vale of GlamorganPart Genetics11. Bruce J. Winney and Walter F. The Genetic Structure of the British Populations and their Surnames12. Maria Pala Pedro Soares and Martin B. Archaeogenetic and palaeogenetic evidence for Metal Age mobility in EuropePart Linguistics13. J. P. Archaeology and Language Shift in Atlantic Europe14. Steve The Question of a Hamito-Semitic Substratum in Insular Celtic and Celtic from the West15. John T. Phoenicians in the West and the Break-up of the Atlantic Bronze Age and Proto-Celtic16. Fernando Fernndez Ancient Personal Names in the Iberian Peninsula and Parallels in Celtic Inscribed Artefacts from Early Medieval Britain and Ireland17. Peter Sound Change the Italo-Celtic Linguistic Unity and the Italian Homeland of Celtic18. Theo Celtic as Vasconized Indo-European? Three structural argumentsGeneral Index
language: English
title: Celtic from the West 3: Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages ― questions of shared language
publisher: Oxbow Books