Fingerprinting the Iron Age
Subtitle: approaches to identity in the European Iron Age : integrating South-Eastern Europe into the debate
By: Catalin Nicolae Popa and Simon Stoddart
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781782976752
Subjects: Iron age; Social archaeology; Group identity; History; Social structure; Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the challenge of Iron Age identity / Simon Stoddart and Catalin Nicolae Popa; title: Part I. Perspectives from south east Europe; title: The coexistence and interference of the late iron age Transylvanian communities / Sándor Berecki; title: Identities of the early Iron Age in north-eastern Slovenia / Matija Crenar and DimitrijMleku; title: Royal bodies, invisible victims: gender in the funerary record of late Iron Age and early Hellenistic Thrace / Bela Dimova; title: Mediterranean wine and Dacian conviviality: ancient and modern myths and archaeological evidence / Mariana Egri; title: Sarmizegetusa regia: the identity of a royal site? / Gelu Florea; title: The ethnic construction of early Iron Age burials in Transylvania: Scythians, Agathyrsi or Thracians? / Alexandra Ghenghea; title: Negotiating identities at the edge of the Roman Empire / Marko A. Jankovic; title: Tracing ethnicity backwards: the case of the central Balkan tribes / Vladimir D. Mihajlovic; title: The quest for group identity in late Iron Age Romania: statistical reconstruction of groups based on funerary evidence / Catalin Nicolae Popa; title: Changing identities of the Iron Age communities of southern Pannonia / Yvonne Inall, Hrvoje Potrebica and Marko Dizdar; title: Indigenous and colonist communities in the eastern Carpathianbasin at the beginning of the late Iron Age: the genesis of an eastern Celtic world / Aurel Rustoiu; title: Ancient Thrace between the east and the west / Nikola Theodossiev; title: "Hellenisation" and ethnicity in the continental Balkan Iron Age / Ivan Vranic; title: Part II. Perspectives from the west; title: Central places and the construction of collective identities in the middle Rhine-Moselle region / Manuel Fernández-Götz; title: Fingerprinting Iron Age communities in south-west Germany and an integrative theory of culture / Oliver Nakoinz; title: Iron Age identities in central Europe: some initial approaches / Peter C. Ramsl; title: Part III. Perspectives from the far west; title: Negotiating identity on the edge of empire / Louisa Campbell; title: Personal adornment in Iron Age Britain: the case of the missing glass beads / Elizabeth Foulds; title: Part IV. Perspectives from the south west; title: Spoiling for a fight: using spear typologies to identify aspects of warrior identity and fighting style in Iron Age south Italy; title: Communal vs. individual: the role of identity in the burials of Peucetia / Olivia Kelley; title: A view from the south (west): identity in Tyrrhenian central Italy / Simon Stoddart; title: Part V. Synthesis; title: Identity, integration, power relations and the study of the European Iron Age: implications from Serbia / Staa Babic; title: The Celts: more myths and inventions / John Collis; title: Material culture and identity: the problem of identifying Celts, Germans and Romans in late Iron Age Europe / Peter Wells; title: Fingerprinting the European Iron Age: historical, cultural andintellectual perspectives on identity and ethnicity / Catalin Nicolae Popa and Simon Stoddart.