Late Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, Symbolic and Territorial Aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age: Proceedings of the International Colloquium 'FortMetalAges', Guimar?es, Portugal

Late Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, Symbolic and Territorial Aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age presents the contributions to the International Colloquium ‘FortMetalAges’ (10th–12th November 2017, Guimarães, Portugal), The Colloquium was organised by the Scientific Commission ‘Metal Ages in Europe’ of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP/ IUSPP) and by the Martin Sarmento Society of Guimarães. Nineteen papers discuss different interpretive ideas for defensive structures whose construction had necessitated large investment, present new case studies, and conduct comparative analysis between different regions and chronological periods from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age.

Table of Contents

Late Prehistoric Fortifications in Europe: Defensive, symbolic and territorial aspects from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age – Davide Delfino, Fernando Coimbra, Gonçalo Cruz and Daniela Cardoso

My home is my castle? Thoughts about the archaeological axiom of the distinction of fortified and unfortified sites, referring to ethnographical records – Andy Reymann

A new overview of the later prehistoric hillforts of Britain and Ireland – Gary Lock and Ian Ralston

The chronology of the defensive systems at Los Millares (Santa Fe de Mondújar, Almería, Spain) – Fernando Molina González, José Andrés Afonso Marrero, Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano, Alberto Dorado Alejos, Rafael María Martínez Sánchez and Liliana Spanedda

Fortified and Monumentalised Landscapes of the Beira-Douro region between the 3rd and 1st millennia BC: Architecture, Scenarios and Symbology – Alexandre Canha

Terraced-walled settlements in Bronze Age Liguria (north-western Italy): can we speak of Iron Age ‘castellari’? – Davide Delfino and Angiolo Del Lucchese

From earth to wood: the ramparts of Ratinhos (Moura, Portugal) as an example in the transition between the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age – Luis Berrocal-Rangel, António Carlos S. Silva, Rosario García Giménez and Lucía Ruano

Another post in the fence. Proto-urban delimitations in Final Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Northern Italy – Paolo Rondini and Lorenzo Zamboni

The appropriation of settlement space in Western and Central Europe during the Iron Age – Caroline von Nicolai

Some symbolic and chronological aspects of rock art of the Hillfort Culture, northwest Iberian Peninsula – Fernando Coimbra

Fortifications of the Early Iron Age in the surroundings of the Princely Seat of Heuneburg – Leif Hansen, Dirk Krausse and Roberto Tarpini

The fortifications of the Heuneburg lower town: A summary and evaluation of the 2000-2008 excavations – Manuel Fernández-Götz

Compartment ramparts in the castros of northwest Iberia – Jorge Camino Mayor and Esperanza Martín Hernández

The Iron Age hillforts of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country): settlement patterns, fortification systems and territory control – Sonia San Jose, Antxoka Martínez, Xabier Peñalver, Carlos Olaetxea, Javier Prieto Domínguez and Juncal Calvo

Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff: Towards a narrative for the hillforts of south-east Wales – Oliver Davis and Niall Sharples

The oppidum of Manching: Examining the construction and defensive capability of a Late Iron Age fortification – Thimo Brestel

The fortifications of Colle Le Case: a new study of Samnite enclosures in Molise (Italy) – Francesca Di Palma

Walls and Castros. Delimitation structures in the proto-historic settlements of Entre Douro and Vouga region (central-north Portugal) – António Manuel S. P. Silva and Gabriel R. Pereira

Reviewing a pre-Roman oppidum in northern Portugal. Summary of the archaeological works carried out at Citânia de Briteiros (Guimarães) – Gonçalo Cruz and José Antunes

Gonçalo P. C. Cruz graduated in History and Archaeology at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) and is a staff archaeologist at the Martins Sarmento Society, Guimarães. His work involves the research and management of the archaeological sites under the administration of the Society, namely the Citânia de Briteiros and Castro de Sabroso, as well as the functioning and activity in different nuclei of the Martins Sarmento Museum.

Daniela Cardoso graduated in Landscape Archaeology at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, held an Erasmus award in Italy at the University of Ferrara in 2000, and completed in 2002 her Master of Advanced Studies degree at the Institute of Human Palaeontology, Paris. In 2015 she obtained her PhD in ‘Quaternário, Materiais e Culturas’ at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal. She is currently Senior Museum Technician at the Martins Sarmento Society.