Iron Age
The life of things long dead: A biography of Iron Age animal bones from Battlesbury Bowl, Wiltshire
Ellen Hambleton (Bournemouth University, UK)
The useful dead: bodies as objects in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland
Fiona Tucker & Ian Armit (University of Bradford, UK)
Iron Age Atlantic Scotland, like most of the rest of Britain, lacks an archaeologically identifiable burial tradition. The majority of human remains that have been found dating to this period were deposited on settlement sites, in a variety of contexts. These remains rarely comprise entire individuals; partial skeletons, articulated limbs or single bones are the characteristic deposits. Many of these human remains were obviously treated, modified, displayed or used as objects before their deposition.
Not wilderness, not not wilderness: The construction of liminal space in a rural context in late Iron Age/early Roman Britain
Martyn Allen (University of Nottingham, UK)
Hoedic in the Iron Age: isolated place or cultural crossroads?
Marie-Yvane Daire & Anna Baudry
with Catherine Dupont, Yvon Dréano, Nancy Marcoux & Anne Tresset
(CNRS, France)
Although research on the Iron Age site of Port-Blanc on Hoedic Island (Morbihan, Brittany) is still in progress, it already provides good illustrations of some of the current questions posed by island archaeology, both in Brittany and elsewhere in the world. The inescapable questions of isolation and remoteness must first of all be considered on the basis of individual cases, since environmental and cultural conditions can be quite diverse.
Ethnic interpretations in Spanish archaeology: history of research and current approaches in Iron Age studies
Manuel Fernández Götz, Eduadro Ferrer Albelda, and Franscisco José García Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
