Theme:
1. The Material Record: Current Trends and Future Directions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Beyond the Walls. Interrogating the Wider Landscapes of Iron Age Communities in Temperate Europe
Content:
Iron Age landscapes in most of temperate Europe are characterised by the spatially dominant and persistent presence of fortified sites. Built as landmarks to organize the landscape, their imposing visibility has made them the prevalent focus of archaeological research for some time. However, Iron Age landscapes consisted of much more than that. Advances in fieldwork methods have allowed an increasing availability of data about many other types of elements beyond the hillforts, many of which have been under-researched: open settlements, agrarian structures, linear earthworks, complex settlement patterns, routeways, specialised craft-making centres. Challenges remain, however, to (1) better characterize the diversity of the rural Iron Age archaeological record and (2) understand the interpretive implications of the vast amount of new evidence that has been collected in recent decades.
The aim or this session is to reflect on these topics. Papers are welcome that address (1) methodologies to better characterise and understand off-site archaeological record, (2) discuss social interpretations of such evidence and/or (3) present regional case studies from across temperate Europe.
Keywords:
Iron Age, Rural Landscapes, Off-site record
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
César Parcero-Oubiña (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Tom Moore (United Kingdom) 2
David González-Álvarez (Spain) 1
Affiliations:
1. Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (INCIPIT), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
2. University of Durham
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