Celtic chiefdom, Celtic state : the evolution of complex social systems in prehistoric Europe

Abstract

1. Introduction: beyond the mists: forging an ethnological approach to Celtic studies Bettina Arnold, and D. Blair Gibson Part I. Celtic Political Systems: Research Paradigms: 2. From chiefdom to state organization in Celtic Europe Patrice Brun 3. Building an historical ecology of Gaulish polities Carole L. Crumley 4. The early Celts of west central Europe: the semantics of social structure Franz Fischer Part II. Recovering Iron Age Social Systems: 5. The material culture of social structure: rank and status in early Iron-Age Europe Bettina Arnold 6. The significance of major settlements in European Iron Age society Olivier Buchsenschutz 7. Early 'Celtic' socio-political relations: ideological representation and social competition in dynamic comparative perspective Michael Dietler Part III. The Question of Statehood in La Tene Europe: 8. States without centres? The Middle La Tene period in temperate Europe John Collis 9. Late Iron-Age society in Britain and north-east Europe: structural transformation or superficial change? Colin Haselgrove 10. Settlement and social systems at the end of the Iron Age Peter S. Wells Part IV. Evolution and Ethnohistory: the Protohistoric Polities of Gaul and the British Isles: 11. Modelling chiefdoms in the Scottish Highlands and islands prior to the '45 Robert A. Dodgshon 12. Caesar's perception of Gallic social structures Sean B. Dunham 13. Chiefdoms, confederacies, and statehood in early Ireland D. Blair Gibson 14. Clans are not primordial: pre-Viking Irish society and the modelling of pre-Roman societies in northern Europe Nerys Thomas Patterson.

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