Re-approaching Celts: Origins, Society, and Social Change

Pope, Rachel ORCID: 0000-0001-6178-3481 (2022) Re-approaching Celts: Origins, Society, and Social Change. Journal of Archaeological Research, 30 (1). pp. 1-67.

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This work re-approaches the origins of “the Celts” by detailing the character of their society and the nature of social change in Europe across 700–300 BC. A new approach integrates regional burial archaeology with contemporary classical texts to further refine our social understanding of the European Iron Age. Those known to us as “Celts” were matrifocal Early Iron Age groups in central Gaul who engaged in social traditions out of the central European salt trade and became heavily involved in Mediterranean politics. The paper focuses on evidence from the Hallstatt–La Tène transition to solve a 150-year-old problem: how the Early Iron Age “Celts” became the early La Tène “Galatai,” who engaged in the Celtic migrations and the sacking of Rome at 387 BC.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2020 12:24
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 23:06
DOI:	10.1007/s10814-021-09157-1
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-021-09157-1
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3110458

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