Book Cover
E-book

Title Communities and connections : essays in honour of Barry Cunliffe / edited by Chris Gosden [and others]
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xxix, 491 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Preface / Michael Fulford -- Part I. Travellers, coastal trade, and exploration -- Sailing to the Britannic Isles : some Mediterranean perspectives on the remote Northwest from the sixth century BC to the seventh century AD / John Wilkes -- Home truths from travellers' tales : on the transmission of culture in the European Iron Age / Daphne Nash Briggs -- Questions of context : a Greek cup from the River Thames / Richard Bradley, Amy C. Smith -- Pre-Roman Iron Age boats and rocks in the North : reality and reflection / John Coles -- Coasting Britannia : Roman trade and traffic around the shores of Britain / Michael Fulford -- The production technology of, and trade in, Egyptian blue pigment in the Roman world / Michael Tite, Gareth Hatton -- Part II. 'On the Edge'. At the fringes of Europe -- Cores and peripheries revisited : the mining landscapes of Wadi Faynan (Southern Jordan) 5000 BC-AD 700 / Graeme Barker, David Mattingly -- Where were North African Nundinae held? / Elizabeth Fentress -- A feast of Beltain? : reflections on the rich Danebury harvests / Martin Jones -- A re-assessment of the enclosure at Lugg, County Dublin, Ireland / Helen Roche, George Eogan -- The late Castro culture of Northwest Portugal : dynamics of change / Francisco M.V. Reimão Queiroga -- Part III. The Celtic heartlands -- From Austria to Arras : the gold armlets from Grave 115, Mannersdorf a.d. Leitha, Lower Austria / Ruth Megaw [and others] -- Bourges in the earlier Iron Age : an interim view / Ian Ralston -- British Potins abroad : a new find from Central France and the Iron Age in Southeast England / Katherine Gruel, Colin Haselgrove -- Mapping Celticity, mapping Celticization / John T. Koch -- Druids : towards an archaeology / Andrew P. Fitzpatrick
Part IV. Landscapes and society in Iron Age and Roman Britain -- Sculpture as landscape : archaeology and the Englishness of Henry Moore / Colin Renfrew -- Wessex hillforts after Danebury : exploring boundaries / Gary Lock -- A new Gallo-Belgic B coin die from Hampshire / Jonathan Williams [and others] -- Evidence of absence? : the rarity of gold in Durotrigan Iron Age coinage / Philip De Jersey -- Meme machines and the mills of the imagination : science and supposition in archaeological enquiry / Lisa Yildiz Brown -- 'How dare they leave all this unexcavated!' : continuing to discover Roman Bath / Peter Davenport -- Decoration and demon traps : the meanings of geometric borders in Roman mosaics / John Manley -- The race that is set before us : the athletic ideal in the aesthetics and culture of early Roman Britain / Martin Henig -- Barry Cunliffe : an interim bibliography / Philip De Jersey
Summary A collection of essays by many of the leading specialist in the archaeology of the Iron Age and early Roman periods in Britain and western Europe, paying tribute to Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe
A collection of essays by many of the leading specialists in the archaeology of the Iron Age and early Roman periods in Britain and western Europe, paying tribute to Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe. The subjects covered range over more than a thousand years, and from the Atlantic coasts to the eastern Mediterranean. - ;For almost forty years the study of the Iron Age in Britain has been dominated by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe. Between the 1960s and 1980s he led a series of large-scale excavations at famous sites including the Roman baths at Bath, Fishbourne Roman palace, and Danebury hillfort w
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Archaeology -- Great Britain
Celtic antiquities.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Antiquities
Archaeology
Celtic antiquities
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056606
Europe -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632
Subject Europe
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic book
Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Gosden, Chris, 1955- editor.
Cunliffe, Barry W., editor.
ISBN 9780191528118
0191528110
1281371416
9781281371416
9786611371418
6611371419
9780191917448
0191917443