| Abstract: |
Based on papers given in 1981. The editors (1-8) introduce the volume, which provides a needed up-to-date survey and remedies the neglect of social aspects. T C Champion (9-22), Written sources and the study of the European Iron Age [unparalleled data set for study of growth of complex societies]; L Pauli (23-43), Early Celtic society: two centuries of wealth and turmoil in central Europe [evidence of Mediterranean contacts, feudalizing influences; slave trade; replacement by more egalitarian society]; Daphne Nash (45-67), Celtic territorial expansion and the Mediterranean world [shifting patterns of trade and their effects]; Peter S Wells (69-89), Mediterranean trade and culture change in Early Iron Age central Europe; Michael G Fulford (91-108), Roman material in barbarian society c 200 BC - c AD 400 [argues against trade as spur to change]; H Lorenz (109-22), Regional organization in the western Early La Tène province: the Marne-Mosel and Rhine-Danube groups [contrasts in burial artefacts]; D Alice Welbourn (123-31), Craft specialization and complex societies: a critique [questions how far 'standardization' implies 'stratification']; Sara Champion (133-60), Production and exchange in Early Iron Age central Europe [special reference to coral's progress down the social scale, and rise of craftsman's status]; J V S Megaw (161-91), Meditations on a Celtic hobby-horse: notes towards a social archaeology of Iron Age art; J-P Demoule & Michael Ilett (193-221), First-millennium settlement and society in northern France: a case study from the Aisne Valley [BA onwards]; Berta Stjernquist (223-38), Approaches to the problem of settlement patterns in eastern Scania in the 1st millennium BC. |
