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War, Wheels, and Woad:
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10.00 | Coffee on arrival | ||
10.15 | The beginning of the Iron Age in Europe: the discovery of iron; the Celts and the Indo-Europeans; the appearance of horse-riding and wheeled vehicles; the Hallstatt Culture and the princely burials | ||
11.15 | Coffee | ||
11.30 | The later Iron Age in Europe: the La Tène Culture; religion and the bog men; houses and descriptions by Classical writers | ||
12.30 | Lunch break | ||
14:00 | The Iron Age in Britain: invaders or natives?; ‘exotic’ chariot burials in the north; ‘native’ pottery in Suffolk; the arrival of the Belgae; cremation and chamber burials | ||
15:00 | Tea break | ||
15:15 | Iron Age houses and settlement patterns; religion and warfare in the enclosed sites; hillforts, terrets and torcs - Iron Age ‘bling’?; coinage and tribal identities | ||
16:15 | Close |
Edward Martin has worked as an archaeologist with Suffolk County Council for many years, specialising in prehistoric and historic landscape studies. He co-edited An Historical Atlas of Suffolk (3rd edition 1999) and has written a wide range of papers. He excavated the important Iron Age sites at Burgh and Barnham (both published in the EAA series) and has written a general study of the Iron Age in Suffolk (in Davies and Williamson Land of the Iceni. The Iron Age in Northern East Anglia). He is chairman of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History and of the Suffolk Gardens Trust.
Brunnaux, J.L, The Celtic Gauls: Gods, Rites and Sanctuaries, Seaby, London 1988
Collis, J., The European Iron Age, Batsford, London, 1984,1997
Cunliffe, B., Iron Age Communities in Britain, Routledge, London 1974 (4th ed., 2004)
Cunliffe, B., Iron Age Britain, Batsford, London 1995 (rev. ed., 2004)
Davies, J. and Williamson, T. (eds.), Land of the Iceni. The Iron Age in Northern East Anglia, Studies in East Anglia History 4, UEA Norwich, 1999
Dunnett, R., The Trinovantes. Duckworth, London 1975
Eluère, C., The Celts. First Masters of Europe, Thames and Hudson, London, 1993
Glob, P.V., The Bog People. Iron Age Man Preserved, Faber, London 1969 (several later eds, latest New York Review Books 2004)
Gregory, T., Excavations in Thetford, 1980-1982, Fison Way, East Anglian Archaeology 53, 1992
Hobbs, R., British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum, British Museum Press, London 1996
Hutcheson, N.C.G., Later Iron Age Norfolk: Metalwork, Landscape and Society, British Archaeological Reports 361, Archaeopress, Oxford 2004
James, S., Exploring the World of the Celts, Thames and Hudson, London 1993 (p’back 2005)
Mallory, J.P., In Search of the Indo-Europeans. Language, Archaeology and Myth, Thames and Hudson, London 1991
Mallory, J.P. and Adams, D.Q., The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, Oxford University Press 2006
Martin, E., Burgh, Iron Age and Roman Enclosure, East Anglian Archaeology 40, 1988
Martin, E., Settlements on Hill-tops: Seven Prehistoric Sites in Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 65, 1993.
Megaw, R and V., Celtic Art, From its beginnings to the Book of Kells, Thames and Hudson, London, 1989
Moscati, S., Frey, O.H., Kruta, V., Raftery, B. and Szabó, M. (eds) The Celts, Thames and Hudson, London 1991
Oppenheimer, S., The Origins of the British. A Genetic Detective Story, Constable, London, 2006
Reynolds, P.J., Iron-Age Farm. The Butser Experiment, Colonnade, London 1979
Ross, A., The Pagan Celts, Batsford, London 1986
Turner, R.C. and Scaife, R.G., Bog Bodies. New Discoveries and New Perspectives, British Museum Press, London 1995
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