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Celtic from the West 3 : Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages : questions of shared language /

"The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. 'Celts') emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is to explore from the perspectives of three disciplines--archaeology, genetics, and linguistics--the background in later European prehist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Koch, John T. (Editor ), Cunliffe, Barry W. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2016.
Colección:Celtic Studies Publications (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Barry Cunliffe & John T. Koch
  • Part I. Archaeology
  • Behind the warriors : Bell Beakers and identities in Atlantic Europe (3rd millennium BC) / Laure Salanova
  • The lost cultures of the halberd bearers : a non-Beaker ideology in later 3rd millennium Atlantic Europe / Stuart Needham
  • Closed for business or cultural change? : tacing the re-use and final blocking of megalithic tombs during the Beaker period / Catriona D. Gibson
  • Copper mining, prospection, and the Beaker phenomenon in Wales : the significance of the Banc Tynddol gold disc / Simon Timberlake
  • Burial practices in Ireland during the late 3rd millennium BC : connecting new ideologies with local expressions / Kerri Cleary
  • Stelae, funerary practice, and group identities in the Bronze and Iron ages of SW Iberia : a moyenne durée perspective / Dirk Brandherm
  • Language shift and political context in late Bronze Age Ireland : some implications of hillfort chronology / William O'Brien
  • Metal, metalwork, and specialization : the chemical composition of British Bronze Age swords in context / Peter Bray
  • Emerging settlement monumentality in north Wales during the late Bronze and Iron Age : the case of Meillionydd / Raimund Karl
  • Ephemeral abundance at Llanmaes : exploring the residues and resonances of an earliest Iron Age midden and its associated archaeological context in the Vale of Glamorgan / Adam Gwilt, Mark Lodwick, Jody Deacon, Nicholas Wells, Richard Madgwick & Tim Young
  • Part II. Genetics
  • The genetic structure of the British populations and their surnames / Bruce J. Winney & Walter F. Bodmer
  • Archaeogenetic and palaeogenetic evidence for Metal Age mobility in Europe / Maria Pala, Pedro Soares & Martin B. Richards
  • Part III. Linguistics
  • Archaeology and language shift in Atlantic Europe / J.P. Mallory
  • The question of a Hamito-Semitic substratum in insular Celtic and Celtic from the West / Steve Hewitt
  • Phoenicians in the West and the break-up of the Atlantic Bronze Age and Proto-Celtic / John T. Koch
  • Ancient personal names in the Iberian Peninsula and parallels in Celtic inscribed artefacts from early medieval Britain and Ireland / Fernando Fernández Palacios
  • Ancillary study: Sound change, the Italo-Celtic linguistic unity, and the Italian homeland of Celtic / Peter Schrijver
  • Ancillary study: Celtic as vasconized Indo-European? : three structural arguments / Theo Vennemann.