Brais Curras - Alternative Iron Ages

Alternative Iron Ages examines Iron Age social formations that sit outside traditional paradigms, developing methods for archaeological characterisation of alternative models of society. In so doing it contributes to the debates concerning the construction and resistance of inequality taking place in archaeology, anthropology and sociology.

In recent years, Iron Age research on Western Europe has moved towards new forms of understanding social structures. Yet these alternative social organisations continue to be considered as basic human social formations, which frequently imply marginality and primitivism. In this context, the grand narrative of the European Iron Age continues to be defined by cultural foci, which hide the great regional variety in an artificially homogenous area. This book challenges the traditional classical evolutionist narratives by exploring concepts such as non-triangular societies, heterarchy and segmentarity across regional case studies to test and propose alternative social models for Iron Age social formations.

Constructing new social theory both archaeologically based and supported by sociological and anthropological theory, the book is perfect for those looking to examine and understand life in the European Iron Age.

Brais X. Currss (postdoctoral researcher, Coimbra University) research focuses on the understanding of the social and territorial organisation of Iron Age communities with the onset of Roman domination in north-western Iberia, employing both landscape archaeology and anthropological perspectives. His particular interest is also the economy of the Roman Empire, particularly the exploitation of gold and salt.

Ins Sastre (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas) chairs the Social Structure and Territory, Landscape Archaeology research group. She also serves as scientific secretary of the Archivo Espaol de Arqueologa and director of the Bibliotheca Praehistorica Hispana. Her particular research interest is the evolution of social structures in pre-Roman and Roman rural territories of the north-western Iberian Peninsula.

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Timothy Earle

Ins Sastre and Brais X. Currs

Ins Sastre and Brais X. Currs

Bill Angelbeck

Stephen A. Dueppen

Ralph Araque Gonzlez

John Collis

Richard Hingley

Brais X. Currs and Ins Sastre

Csar Parcero-Oubia, Xos-Lois Armada, Samuel Nin and Flix Gonzlez Insua

David MCOMISH

Ian Armit

Vladimir D. Mihajlovi

marjolijn kok

Alberto Santos Cancelas

Niall Sharples

John Bintliff

Francisco Burillo-Mozota and MA. Pilar Burillo-Cuadrado

Ignasi Grau-Mira

Bill Angelbeck (Douglas College)

Ralph Araque Gonzlez (University of Freiburg)

Xos-Lois Armada (Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas)

Ian Armit (University of Leicester)

John Bintliff (Leiden University)

M. Pilar Burillo-Cuadrado (University of Zaragoza)

Francisco Burillo-Mozota (University of Zaragoza)

John Collis (University of Sheffield)

Brais X. Currs (University of CoimbraCentro de Estudos em Arqueologia, Artes e Cincias do Patrimnio)

Stephen A. Dueppen (University of Oregon)

Timothy Earle (Northwestern University)

Flix Gonzlez Insua independent researcher

Ignasi Grau-Mira (University of Alicante)

Richard Hingley (University of Durham)

marjolijn kok independent researcher

David McOmish (Historic England)

Vladimir D. Mihajlovic (University of Novi Sad)

Samuel Nin (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

Csar Parcero-Oubia (Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas)

Alberto Santos Cancelas independent researcher

Ins Sastre