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The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age (Oxford Handbooks) by Haselgrove, Colin (editor);Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina (editor);Wells, Peter S. (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents to students, scholars, and interested general readers a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC to the early historic period. During this period, new technologies, agricultural innovation, and demographic growth saw much of the landscape opened up to near modern limits, accompanied in many areas by greater social and economic complexity. Three introductory chapters situate the reader in the times and the environments of Iron Age Europe. Fourteen regional chapters provide overviews of developments in different parts of the continent, from Ireland and Spain in the west to the borders with Asia in the east, and from Scandinavia in the north to the Mediterranean shores in the south, exploiting the large quantities of new evidence yielded by the upsurge in archaeological research and excavation on this period over the last thirty years in many areas. Twenty-six thematic chapters then examine different aspects of Iron Age archaeology in more depth, from lifeways, economy, and complexity to identity, ritual, and expression. Among the many topics explored are agricultural systems, settlements ra
Who reads The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age (Oxford Handbooks)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Haselgrove, Colin (editor);Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina (editor);Wells, Peter S. (editor)
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199696826
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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