Research Catalog

Title

Iron Age communities in Britain : an account of England, Scotland and Wales from the seventh century BC until the Roman conquest / Barry Cunliffe.

Author

Cunliffe, Barry W.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Details

Description

x, 741 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"Iron Age Communities in Britain examines the lifestyles of the people and the ways in which they developed and displayed their distinctive identities. It explores their many craft skills, including their brilliant decorated bronze-work of the later centuries, and looks at how they traded raw materials and goods with each other and with overseas communities. They were deeply religious and at times warlike - all this can be deduced from the archaeological evidence and from a few references by classical authors. The book also charts the rapid social changes which took place in south-eastern Britain in the first century B.C. as the Romans first became neighbours and then invaders."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• History
• To 55 B.C
• Britons
• Great Britain > Antiquities, Celtic
• Great Britain > History > To 55 B.C
• Iron age > Great Britain

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 673-722) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The beginnings of Iron Age studies -- 2. Space and time -- 3. Background -- 4. Regional groupings : an overview -- 5. Regional groupings : the ceramic evidence -- 6. Protohistory to history, c. 150 B.C. to A.D. 43 -- 7. The tribes of the south-eastern core : Catuvellauni/Trinovantes, Cantii and Atrebates -- 8. The tribes of the periphery : Durotriges, Dobunni, Iceni and Corieltauvi -- 9. The late pre-Roman Iron Age in western and northern Britain -- 10. The establishment of Roman control -- 11. Themes -- 12. Settlement and the settlement pattern in the south-east -- 13. Settlement and the settlement pattern in the west -- 14. Settlement and the settlement pattern in the centre and north -- 15. The development of hillforts and enclosed oppida -- 16. Food-producing strategies -- 17. Exchanges with the wider world -- 18. Craft, production and art -- 19. Warfare -- 20. Beliefs and behaviour -- 21. Iron Age society and social change -- 22. Models, systems and beyond -- App. A. Pottery -- App. B. A note on radiocarbon dating -- App. C. List of principal sites.

ISBN

• 0415347793 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0203640748 (electronic book)

LCCN

^^2004003810

OCLC

• 54529166
• SCSB-9967096

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library