The Iron Age in Lowland Britain

Harding, D. W.

ISBN 10: 0710076770 / ISBN 13: 9780710076779

Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1974

About this Item

Pp: xviii + 260. Gilt titles: sp. Illust. w/ b/w photos, maps, drawings & plans (listed). Black cloth bds. Interior leaves are clean and tight. An archaeological study of the British Iron Age and the material culture of its Celtic tribal inhabitants. Includes bibliography & index. A clean unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Iron Age in Lowland Britain
• Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710076770
• ISBN 13: 9780710076779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Dimensions: Quarto ~30 cm / 12" tall Quarto, Approximately 30 centimetres, or 12 inches tall
• Weight: 2.5 pounds

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Synopsis

This book was written at a time when the older conventional diffusionist view of prehistory, largely associated with the work of V. Gordon Childe, was under rigorous scrutiny from British prehistorians, who still nevertheless regarded the ‘Arras’ culture of eastern Yorkshire and the ‘Belgic’ cemeteries of south-eastern Britain as the product of immigrants from continental Europe. Sympathetic to the idea of population mobility as one mechanism for cultural innovation, as widely recognized historically, it nevertheless attempted a critical re-appraisal of the southern British Iron Age in its continental context. Subsequent fashion in later prehistoric studies has favoured economic, social and cognitive approaches, and the cultural-historical framework has largely been superseded. Routine use of radiocarbon dating and other science-based applications, and new field data resulting from developer-led archaeology have revolutionized understanding of the British Iron Age, and once again raised issues of its relationship to continental Europe.