Fingerprinting the Iron Age: Approaches to identity in the European Iron Age: Integrating South-Eastern Europe into the debateCătălin Nicolae Popa, Simon Stoddart Archaeology has long dealt with issues of identity, and especially with ethnicity, with modern approaches emphasising dynamic and fluid social construction. The archaeology of the Iron Age in particular has engendered much debate on the topic of ethnicity, fuelled by the first availability of written sources alongside the archaeological evidence which has led many researchers to associate the features they excavate with populations named by Greek or Latin writers. Some archaeological traditions have had their entire structure built around notions of ethnicity, around the relationships existing between large groups of people conceived together as forming unitary ethnic units. On the other hand, partly influenced by anthropological studies, other scholars have written forcefully against Iron Age ethnic constructions, such as the Celts. The 24 contributions to this volume focus on the south east Europe, where the Iron Age has, until recently, been populated with numerous ethnic groups with which specific material culture forms have been associated. The first section is devoted to the core geographical area of south east Europe: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, as well as Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The following three sections allow comparison with regions further to the west and the south west with contributions on central and western Europe, the British Isles and the Italian peninsula. The volume concludes with four papers which provide more synthetic statements that cut across geographical boundaries, the final contributions bringing together some of the key themes of the volume. The wide array of approaches to identity presented here reflects the continuing debate on how to integrate material culture, protohistoric evidence (largely classical authors looking in on first millennium BC societies) and the impact of recent nationalistic agendas. |
Contents
Mediterranean Wine and Dacian Conviviality Ancient and Modern Myths | |
Sarmizegetusa Regia the Identity of a Royal Site? | |
The Ethnic Construction of Early Iron Age Burials in Transylvania Scythians | |
Negotiating Identities at the Edge of the Roman Empire | |
The Quest for Group Identity in Late Iron Age Romania Statistical | |
Indigenous and Colonist Communities in the Eastern Carpathian Basin at | |
Ancient Thrace between the East and the West | |
Central Places and the Construction of Collective Identities in the Middle | |
Fingerprinting Iron Age Communities in SouthWest Germany and | |
Some Initial Approaches | |
Personal Adornment in Iron Age Britain The Case of the Missing Glass | |
Using Spear Typologies to Identify Aspects of Warrior | |
the Role of Identity in the Burials of Peucetia | |
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Agathyrsi analysis ancient approach archaeological culture Archaeology artefacts Babić Balkans barrows Britain burials Cambridge Carpathian Basin Celtic Celts cemetery central centres ceramic colonial communities complex concept construction context cremation Crişan Dacian Danube Dardanians defined descent group Dietler Dizdar Early Iron Age east eastern elite ethnic Etruscan Europe European example excavated fibulae Florea fourth century BC funerary gender glass beads graves Greek Hallstatt Hellenisation Herodotos hillfort identity important indigenous individual inhumation interaction interpretation Late Iron Age Late La Tène London material culture Mediterranean modern Muntenia northern objects Oltenia oppidum organisation Oxbow Books Oxford Papazoglu period Pistiros political populations Poštela pottery practices prehistoric present region ritual role Roman Romania Romanian Routledge Rustoiu Sarmizegetusa Scordisci Scythian Serbia settlement social society southern spear spearheads specific suggest territory Teržan Thrace Thracian tombs traditional Transylvania tumulus types vessels Vulpe warrior weapons western written sources