Miranda J. Green - The Celtic World

THE CELTIC WORLD

Edited by

Miranda J. Green

First published 1995

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CONTENTS

PART IX: THE CELTS IN EUROPE

ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLES

CONTRIBUTORS

Martin Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is currently directing the Experimental Earthwork Project, and a programme of intertidal wetland archaeology in the Severn Estuary. He is author (with Dr M.J.C. Walker) of Late Quaternary Environmental Change (1992) and editor (with Dr J. Boardman) of Past and Present Soil Erosion (1992).

Daphne Nash Briggs was an Assistant Keeper in the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and part-time University Lecturer in Roman, then Greek numismatics at Oxford University, from 1976[-]85. Her publications include (as Daphne Nash) Coinage in the Celtic World (1987).

Olivier Bchsenschtz is Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Archologies dOrient et dOccident, in Paris, and is Associate Professor at the University of Paris. He has published Structures dhabitats et fortifications de lge du Fer en France Septentrionale (1984); Architectures des ges des metaux (1988); he is co-author (with Franoise Audouze) of Towns, villages and countryside of Celtic Europe (1989), and has published reports on his excavations at Levroux.

Barry C. Burnham is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. His publications include a joint-authored volume on The Small Towns of Roman Britain (1990), and an edited work on Conquest, Co-existence and Change: Recent Work in Roman Wales (1991).

Sara Champion is Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. Her publications include A Dictionary of Terms and Techniques in Archaeology (1980) and numerous articles on coral, enamel, craft production and its relationship to social organization in iron age Europe.

Timothy Champion is Reader in Archaeology and Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. His publications include Prehistoric Europe (1984) and Centre and Periphery (1989).

Thomas Charles-Edwards is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of Early Irish and Welsh Kinship (Oxford, 1993)

John Collis is Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the Iron Age in Europe, and his books include The European Iron Age (1984), and Oppida, earliest towns north of the Alps (1984). His main field project is investigating the changes in settlement pattern and social and economic organization in central France.

Jeffrey L. Davies is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His publications include Conquest, Co-existence and Change (1991); Excavations at Segontium (Caernarfon) Roman Ford, 19759 (1993); and Cardiganshire County History Vol. I: From the earliest times to the coming of the Normans.

Sioned Davies is a lecturer in the Department of Welsh, University of Wales College of Cardiff. Her works include The Four Branches of the Mabinogi (1993) and a volume in Welsh on the art of the medieval story-teller (in press). She has published many articles on the Mabinogion, especially on issues relating to orality and literacy.

D. Ellis Evans is Jesus Professor of Celtic and Professorial Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Gaulish Personal Names, A Study of some Continental Celtic Formations (1967), and numerous articles on Continental Celtic and early Insular Celtic. He co-edited the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, and is now Chief Editor of Studio Celtica.

Otto-Herman Frey is Professor of Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Marburg/Lahn. His works include several papers on the pre-Roman Iron Age, especially in central and southern Europe, and he was co-editor of the Catalogue of the Venice Exhibition, The Celts.

Alex Gibson is Projects Manager with the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. He is author of Neolithic and Bronze Age Pottery, and co-author of Prehistoric Pottery for the Archaeologist.

Miranda J. Green is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Gwent College of Higher Education (a University of Wales Associate College), and she also lectures in Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her publications include The Gods of the Celts (1986); Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art (1989); Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend (1992); Animals in Celtic Life and Myth (1992); and Celtic Myths (1993). A new book on Celtic goddesses is in press.