{"product_id":"9781785709098","title":"Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent","description":"The Earlier Iron Age (c. 800-400 BC) has often eluded attention  in British Iron Age studies. Traditionally, we have been enticed  by the wealth of material from the later part of the millennium  and by developments in southern England in particular, culminating in the arrival of the Romans. The result has been a  chronological and geographical imbalance, with the Earlier Iron  Age often characterised more by what it lacks than what it  comprises: for Bronze Age studies it lacks large quantities of  bronze, whilst from the perspective of the Later Iron Age it  lacks elaborate enclosure. In contrast, the same period on  mainland Europe yields a wealth of burial evidence with links to  Mediterranean communities and so has not suffered in quite the  same way. Gradual acceptance of this problem over the past  decade, along with the corpus of new discoveries produced by  developer-funded archaeology, now provides us with an opportunity  to create a more balanced picture of the Iron Age in Britain as a  whole.   The twenty-six papers in the book seek to establish what we now  know (and do not know) about Earlier Iron Age communities in  Britain and their neighbours on the Continent. The authors engage  with a variety of current research themes, seeking to  characterise the Earlier Iron Age via the topics of landscape,  environment, and agriculture; material culture and everyday life;  architecture, settlement, and social organisation; and with the  issue of transition - looking at how communities of the Late  Bronze Age transform into those of the Earlier Iron Age, and how  we understand the social changes of the later first millennium  BC. Geographically, the book brings together recent research from  regional studies covering the full length of Britain, as well as  taking us over to Ireland, across the Channel to France, and then  over the North Sea to Denmark, the Low Countries, and beyond.","brand":"Rachel Pope","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051582046526,"sku":"9781785709098","price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781785709098.jpg?v=1707623592","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781785709098","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}