Title: Rural settlement : relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age /
Authors: Cowley, David, 1966-; Fernández-Götz, Manuel; Romankiewicz, Tanja; Wendling, Holger
Year: 2019
Subjects: Land settlement Europe History; Landscapes Europe History; Land use, Rural Europe History; Landscape archaeology Europe.; Iron age Europe; Iron age; Land settlement; Land use, Rural; Landscape archaeology; Landscapes; Europe
Abstract: The majority of humanity have lived out their lives in a 'rural' context, and even in our increasingly urbanised world almost half of the global population still live in rural areas. In the European Iron Age, the vast mass of the population clearly lived in small hamlets and farmsteads, and this overarching 'rurality' is important for understanding these societies. While there has been a pronounced focus in recent archaeological research on patterns of centralisation and urbanisation, there is a need to reincorporate 'rural life' or rurality into these discussions of how people lived. This boo.