1st Edition
The Atlantic Iron Age Settlement and Identity in the First Millennium BC
By Jon Henderson
Copyright 2007
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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It may be surprising to learn that this book is the first ever survey of the Atlantic Iron Age: this tradition is cited in archaeology frequently enough to seem firmly established, yet has never been clearly defined.With this book, Jon Henderson provides an important and much-needed exploration of the archaeology of western areas of Britain, Ireland, France and Spain to consider how far Atlantic... Read more
1 Atlantic Europe: the lands of the continuity of tradition 2 Atlantic land and sea 3 The Atlantic Late Bronze Age (1200–600 BC) 4 Atlantic settlement in the first millennium BC 5 The Ultima Thule: Atlantic Scotland and Ireland 700 BC–AD 200 6 The western approaches: South-west England and Armorica c. 750 BC–AD 200 7 Atlantic communities and the sea
Biography
Jon C. Henderson is currently Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. His areas of research lie within the settlement archaeology of the European Iron Age, with a particular focus on the Atlantic regions of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. He is also actively involved in underwater archaeology and in 2004 established the Underwater Archaeology Research Centre at Nottingham. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.
