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Beyond Celts, Germans and Sycythians: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age
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Beyond Celts, Germans and Sycythians: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe Paperback - 2001

by Peter S. Wells


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Who were the Iron Age peoples of Europe? Celts, Germans, Scythians: these are among the names that come to mind. But such names, and the characteristics associated with them, come to us from outside observers - Greek and Roman writers - rather than from their own words. To understand how late prehistoric groups constructed and expressed their identities, the author examines the rich archaeological evidence left by the Iron Age Europeans themselves. Recent theoretical and methodological advances in anthropology, archaeology and history, together with results of archaeological research all over Europe, provide the basis for a new approach to the problem of the identities of Iron Age peoples. Peter Wells uses patterns of identity revealed in the archaeology to interpret the commentaries of Greek and Roman authors who conveyed their own perceptions of these non-literate groups. Finally, he examines ways in which Iron Age Europeans responded to the Greek and Roman representations of them. The result was an ever-changing mosaic of complex and dynamic identities among the diverse peoples of Late Iron Age Europe.

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The issue of identity has been a major theme of anthropological research since the 1970s and in archaeology since the 1980s.

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  • Title Beyond Celts, Germans and Sycythians: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
  • Author Peter S. Wells
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
  • Date 2001-07-12
  • ISBN 9780715630365 / 0715630369
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.74 x 0.48 in (21.49 x 14.58 x 1.22 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 930.1

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2002, Page 22

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Peter S. Wells is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, USA. His recent works include The Battle that Stopped Rome (2003), Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians (2001), Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age (1993), and The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (1999).
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