Iron Age Europe This half-unit course will introduce students to
the main features of the Iron Age in Europe. It begins with the
Late Bronze Age background, and develops through the Hallstatt
period of central Europe, the La Tène period, and the Roman Iron
Age north of the Roman frontier. Specialist topics covered in
detail are drawn from current research foci, and include the
spread of iron technology, the nature of specialist knowledge
and cosmology, the Mediterranean impact on the north, the roles
of votive deposition and funerary practices, and the development
of architecture and urbanism. It will explore the main
depositional contexts of later prehistoric archaeology and the
corresponding implications of chronological precision, formation
processes, theoretical approaches and material evidence for our
understanding of social changes across Europe