Rural Settlement
Relating Buildings, Landscape, and People in the European Iron Age
Published on 27. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-90-8890-818-7 (ISBN)
Description
The majority of humanity have lived out their lives in a 'rural' context, and even in our increasingly urbanised world almost half of the global population still live in rural areas. In the European Iron Age, the vast mass of the population clearly lived in small hamlets and farmsteads, and this overarching 'rurality' is important for understanding these societies. While there has been a pronounced focus in recent archaeological research on patterns of centralisation and urbanisation, there is a need to reincorporate 'rural life' or rurality into these discussions of how people lived.
This book is a contribution to the study of rural life in Iron Age Europe, collating case studies extending from southern Spain to northern Scotland and from Denmark to the Balkans. Papers are grouped thematically to open up cross-regional comparisons, ranging across studies of buildings, farms - the basic unit of Iron Age life consisting of its inhabitants, its livestock and associated agricultural lands - to wider settlement patterns and land use strategies. The 29 papers in this volume discuss the disposition, form and organisation of rural settlements, as well as underlying social and economic networks, illustrating both the variability between regions, and also common themes in cultural, economic and social interactions.
This volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research, presenting new results for the Iron Age specialist as well as a wider audience interested in the rich tapestry of rural settlement in Europe.
This book is a contribution to the study of rural life in Iron Age Europe, collating case studies extending from southern Spain to northern Scotland and from Denmark to the Balkans. Papers are grouped thematically to open up cross-regional comparisons, ranging across studies of buildings, farms - the basic unit of Iron Age life consisting of its inhabitants, its livestock and associated agricultural lands - to wider settlement patterns and land use strategies. The 29 papers in this volume discuss the disposition, form and organisation of rural settlements, as well as underlying social and economic networks, illustrating both the variability between regions, and also common themes in cultural, economic and social interactions.
This volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research, presenting new results for the Iron Age specialist as well as a wider audience interested in the rich tapestry of rural settlement in Europe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 280 mm
Width: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-8890-818-7 (9789088908187)
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Dave Cowley is an archaeologist in the Survey & Recording Group at Historic Environment Scotland, where he manages a programme of archaeological mapping. His research is focused on survey methodology and the development of the landscape, with a specific interest in Iron Age settlement patterns. He is undertaking part-time doctoral research at Ghent University on population in southeast Scotland in the period 1000 BC to AD 1000. Manuel Fernandez-Goetz is Reader in European Archaeology and Head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored ca. 200 publications and held visiting scholar positions at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Brown, among others. His main research interests are Iron Age societies in Central and Western Europe, the archaeology of identities, and conflict archaeology. He has directed fieldwork projects in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Croatia. Tanja Romankiewicz is a Research Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Developing from her PhD on the complex roundhouses of the Scottish Iron Age, supervised by Ian Ralston, she currently investigates prehistoric and Roman architectures more widely across northwest Europe, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Dr. Holger Wendling is Head of the Department of Archaeology at the Salzburg Museum and the Duerrnberg Research Department at the Keltenmuseum Hallein. He studied at the University of Tuebingen and at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, developing a strong interest in the Iron Age of temperate Europe. His current research focuses on settlement structures and burials at the Iron Age site of Duerrnberg in Austria, also integrating the Bronze and Iron Age evidence in the wider Salzburg area.
Content
Exploring rural settlement in Iron Age Europe - An introduction
Dave Cowley, Manuel Fernandez-Goetz, Tanja Romankiewicz & Holger Wendling
Beyond the site: settlement systems and territories
Regional settlement entities or terroirs in Late Iron Age northern France
Alexandra Cony
Regional aspects of landscape exploitation and settlement structure in Denmark in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age
Mads Runge
Iron Age settlement in mid-west Ireland
Katharina Becker
Recent research on the Arras Culture in its landscape setting
Peter Halkon
Settlement and landscape in the Iron Age of eastern Iberia
Ignasi Grau Mira
Approaching Late Iron Age rural landscapes: New ways of looking at the archaeological record in the southeast Iberian Peninsula
Leticia Lopez-Mondejar
From hut to factory: models of rural occupation in the Lower Guadalquivir valley during the 1st millennium BC
Eduardo Ferrer-Albelda, Francisco Jose Garcia-Fernandez & Jose Luis Ramos-Soldado
Space and place in the Early Iron Age in eastern Burgundy
Regis Labeaune
Settlement units and buildings
The chronology of wetland settlement and its impact on Iron Age settlement dynamics in southwest Scotland
Graeme Cavers & Anne Crone
Settlement nucleation and farmstead stabilisation in the Netherlands
Karen M. de Vries
Turf worlds: Towards understanding an understudied building material in rural Iron Age architecture - some thoughts in a Scottish context
Tanja Romankiewicz
The concept of 'house' and 'settlement' in the Iron Age of the middle Tisza region
Peter F. Kovacs
House or workshop? A case study of two pit-houses at the Iron Age settlement site of Michalowice, Kazimierza Wielka county (Poland)
Jan Bulas, Michal Kasinski & Gabriela Juzwinska
Late Iron Age settlement in Hungary
Karoly Tanko & Lorinc Timar
At the fringes of the La Tene world - The Late Iron Age rural occupation of the Banat region, Romania
Andrei Georgescu
Late Iron Age rural settlements in southern Pannonia
Ivan Drnic
Meillionydd: a Late Bronze and Iron Age double ringwork enclosure in northwest Wales
Katharina Moeller & Raimund Karl
The changing patterns of La Tene Farmsteads in Central and Western continental Europe
Angelika Mecking
Rural settlement patterns in urbanised Areas: The oppidum of Manching
Thimo J. Brestel
Status and settlement hierarchy
Rural residential places? Rethinking the Fuerstensitze-elites correlation
Manuel Fernandez-Goetz & Ian Ralston
Middle and Late La Tene rural aristocratic establishments in Gaul: plans and organisation
Stephan Fichtl
Scordiscan stronghold: A Late Iron Age multiple fortification at Backa Palanka in northern Serbia
Holger Wendling
The emergence of oppida in Celtiberia: The case study of Los Rodiles (Guadalajara, Spain)
Marta Chorda, Alvaro Sanchez-Climent, Emilio Gamo & Maria Luisa Cerdeno
New tools and perspectives
Microtopographies of Dacian upland settlement strategies and community aggregation trends in the Orastie Mountains, Romania
Ioana A. Oltean & Joao Fonte
A structured Iron Age landscape in the hinterland of Knezak, Slovenia
Bostjan Laharnar, Edisa Lozic & Benjamin Stular
Around the Muensterberg: How online tools help us to rethink our data
Loup Bernard
Archaeology, landscapes, and heritage in the southeast Iberian Peninsula: The ALHIS project
Leticia Lopez-Mondejar
Rural domestic patterns in northwest Iberia: An ethnoarchaeological approach to Iron Age household layout
Lucia Ruano & Luis Berrocal-Rangel
Dave Cowley, Manuel Fernandez-Goetz, Tanja Romankiewicz & Holger Wendling
Beyond the site: settlement systems and territories
Regional settlement entities or terroirs in Late Iron Age northern France
Alexandra Cony
Regional aspects of landscape exploitation and settlement structure in Denmark in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age
Mads Runge
Iron Age settlement in mid-west Ireland
Katharina Becker
Recent research on the Arras Culture in its landscape setting
Peter Halkon
Settlement and landscape in the Iron Age of eastern Iberia
Ignasi Grau Mira
Approaching Late Iron Age rural landscapes: New ways of looking at the archaeological record in the southeast Iberian Peninsula
Leticia Lopez-Mondejar
From hut to factory: models of rural occupation in the Lower Guadalquivir valley during the 1st millennium BC
Eduardo Ferrer-Albelda, Francisco Jose Garcia-Fernandez & Jose Luis Ramos-Soldado
Space and place in the Early Iron Age in eastern Burgundy
Regis Labeaune
Settlement units and buildings
The chronology of wetland settlement and its impact on Iron Age settlement dynamics in southwest Scotland
Graeme Cavers & Anne Crone
Settlement nucleation and farmstead stabilisation in the Netherlands
Karen M. de Vries
Turf worlds: Towards understanding an understudied building material in rural Iron Age architecture - some thoughts in a Scottish context
Tanja Romankiewicz
The concept of 'house' and 'settlement' in the Iron Age of the middle Tisza region
Peter F. Kovacs
House or workshop? A case study of two pit-houses at the Iron Age settlement site of Michalowice, Kazimierza Wielka county (Poland)
Jan Bulas, Michal Kasinski & Gabriela Juzwinska
Late Iron Age settlement in Hungary
Karoly Tanko & Lorinc Timar
At the fringes of the La Tene world - The Late Iron Age rural occupation of the Banat region, Romania
Andrei Georgescu
Late Iron Age rural settlements in southern Pannonia
Ivan Drnic
Meillionydd: a Late Bronze and Iron Age double ringwork enclosure in northwest Wales
Katharina Moeller & Raimund Karl
The changing patterns of La Tene Farmsteads in Central and Western continental Europe
Angelika Mecking
Rural settlement patterns in urbanised Areas: The oppidum of Manching
Thimo J. Brestel
Status and settlement hierarchy
Rural residential places? Rethinking the Fuerstensitze-elites correlation
Manuel Fernandez-Goetz & Ian Ralston
Middle and Late La Tene rural aristocratic establishments in Gaul: plans and organisation
Stephan Fichtl
Scordiscan stronghold: A Late Iron Age multiple fortification at Backa Palanka in northern Serbia
Holger Wendling
The emergence of oppida in Celtiberia: The case study of Los Rodiles (Guadalajara, Spain)
Marta Chorda, Alvaro Sanchez-Climent, Emilio Gamo & Maria Luisa Cerdeno
New tools and perspectives
Microtopographies of Dacian upland settlement strategies and community aggregation trends in the Orastie Mountains, Romania
Ioana A. Oltean & Joao Fonte
A structured Iron Age landscape in the hinterland of Knezak, Slovenia
Bostjan Laharnar, Edisa Lozic & Benjamin Stular
Around the Muensterberg: How online tools help us to rethink our data
Loup Bernard
Archaeology, landscapes, and heritage in the southeast Iberian Peninsula: The ALHIS project
Leticia Lopez-Mondejar
Rural domestic patterns in northwest Iberia: An ethnoarchaeological approach to Iron Age household layout
Lucia Ruano & Luis Berrocal-Rangel