Oxbow Spring 2013.pdf - Oxbow Books
Oxbow Spring 2013.pdf - Oxbow Books
Oxbow Spring 2013.pdf - Oxbow Books
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9781842175293, £40.00,<br />
January 2013<br />
HB, 237p, <strong>Oxbow</strong> <strong>Books</strong><br />
Celtic from the West 2<br />
Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo-European in<br />
Atlantic Europe<br />
Barry Cunliffe (Editor); John T Koch (Editor)<br />
Europe’s Atlantic façade has long been treated as marginal to the<br />
formation of the European Bronze Age and the puzzle of the origin<br />
and early spread of the Indo-European languages. Until recently<br />
the idea that Atlantic Europe was a wholly pre-Indo-European world<br />
throughout the Bronze Age remained plausible. Rapidly expanding<br />
evidence for the later prehistory and the pre-Roman languages of<br />
the West increasingly exclude that possibility. It is therefore time to<br />
refocus on a narrowing list of ‘suspects’ as possible archaeological<br />
proxies for the arrival of this great language family and emergence of<br />
its Celtic branch. This reconsideration inevitably throws penetrating<br />
new light on the formation of later prehistoric Atlantic Europe and<br />
the implications of new evidence for inter-regional connections. Celtic<br />
from the West 2 continues the series launched with Celtic from the<br />
West: Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language<br />
and Literature (2010; 2012) in exploring the new idea that the Celtic<br />
languages emerged in the Atlantic Zone during the Bronze Age. This<br />
Celtic Atlantic hypothesis represents a major departure from the<br />
long-established, but increasingly problematical scenario in which the<br />
Ancient Celtic languages and peoples called Keltoi (Celts) are closely<br />
bound up with the archaeology of the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures<br />
of Iron Age west-central Europe.<br />
Prehistory – Europe<br />
Table of Contents:<br />
Prologue: Ha C1a ≠ PC (‘The Earliest Hallstatt Iron Age cannot equal<br />
Proto-Celtic’) (John T. Koch)<br />
1. The Indo-Europeanization of Atlantic Europe (J. P. Mallory)<br />
2. The Arrival of the Beaker Set in Britain and Ireland (A. P.<br />
Fitzpatrick)<br />
3. Beakers into Bronze: Tracing connections between Western Iberia<br />
and the British Isles 2800–800 BC (Catriona Gibson)<br />
4. Out of the Flow and Ebb of the European Bronze Age: Heroes,<br />
Tartessos, and Celtic (John T. Koch)<br />
5. Westward Ho? Sword-Bearers and All the Rest of it . . . (Dirk<br />
Brandherm)<br />
6. Dead-Sea Connections: A Bronze Age and Iron Age Ritual Site on<br />
the Isle of Thanet (Jacqueline I. McKinley, Jörn Schuster, & Andrew<br />
Millard)<br />
7. Models of Language Spread and Language Development in<br />
Prehistoric Europe (Dagmar S. Wodtko)<br />
8. Early Celtic in the West: The Indo-European Context (Colin<br />
Renfrew)<br />
Epilogue: The Celts—Where Next (Barry Cunliffe)<br />
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