RT Book, Section
T1 Iron Age societies at work. Towns, kinship and territory in historical analogy
A1 Fernández Götz, Manuel
A1 Liceras Garrido, Raquel
A2 Ray, Celeste
A2 Fernández Götz, Manuel
AB This chapter summarize some debates on Iron Age societal structures and discusses the different levels of aggregation of Late Iron Age societies and their structuring through assemblies and central places. It examines the historical example of the medieval “town and land” communities—administrative entities composed by different kinship groups—as a possible analogy that can help improve our understanding of the interconnections between kinship groups, towns and the rural world. The traditional notion of a rather homogeneous “Celtic” society characterized as a “triangle” with elites at the top of the social pyramid has been questioned, with new models emphasizing the diversity of Iron Age societies and the variations that existed across time and space. Two key issues that underlie—implicitly or explicitly—many discussions on Iron Age societies are the scale of analysis and the sources of analogies. The best evidence for tracing kinship relationships and lineages in the Iron Age comes from the cemeteries.
PB Routledge
SN 9781351167727
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/88712
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/88712
LA eng
NO Ray, Celeste, y Manuel Fernández-Götz, eds. Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes. 1.a ed. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351167727.
NO Leverhulme Trust
DS Docta Complutense
RD 11 abr 2025