Late Celtic and Early Roman transition
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Paper concerns mainly the discussion on the brooch of Idrija type found in a female grave on the cemetery of the Przeworsk Culture at Gołębiewo (former Taubendorf) in NE Poland.
Prayers from the Ancient Celtic Church is a collection of prayers from the time of Patrick (d. ca. 460-493) to the Synod of Whitby (664), and also from the Celtic Christian tradition that remained after Whitby. A few of the prayers in... more
Until recently the aggregate number of Celtic coins found within Poland’s borders, including items constituting parts of hoards, was ca. 100 coins from 26 sites. At present it exceeds 440 coins from at least 60 sites. Most of the new... more
Relics of pottery kilns identified in the La Tène Culture settlement at Nowa Cerekwia, Upper Silesia, and in sites of the Tyniec Group in the Krakow region document local production of wheel-made pottery. The youngest finds of wheel-made... more
The subject of this study are gold coins, formerly attributed to the coinage of the Menapii, which in the seventies of the 20th century Karel Castelin referred to as staters of the Cracovian type, struck by Celts near Kraków. When the... more
This discussion considers the Arthurian elements presented in De Excidio, Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae and analyses to what extent these may be indicative of the religious and political motives of their authors, rather... more
Throughout history, the Druids have always been seen as sorcerers who had a strong bond with nature. Ancestral knowledge holders within Celtic society, directed all religious activity as the highest authority linked to the gods, practiced... more
The subject of this study is a stater found in Masłów (Lower Silesia) in 1704: the oldest documented find of a Celtic coin from the area of the present-day Poland. The coin, which has been regarded as missing until recently, was... more
Questioning what types of beads would have been in use during the Iron Age in Britain and drawing deeply from the work of the late bead researcher Margaret Guido I’ve amassed a collocation of information which one can draw from not just... more
Through the sunken-featured buildings documented often in the Late Iron Age and Early Roman villages, the paper examines the possible survival of this feature and the settlements. The transformation of the La Tène D-villages to Roman Vici... more
Article on the alleged Roman persecution of Gallic druids and its cultural consequences. The text draws on Jan Assmann's theories on collective memory.
Gegenstand vorliegender Arbeit ist der Versuch, in neuer Weise den Wandel, zu dem es am Ende des 1. vorchristlichen und zu Beginn des 1. nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts im uns interessierenden Gebiet kam, zu betrachten und zu... more
The paper gives an overview of the Late Iron Age and early Imperial settlement phases at the Dunavski Lloyd and Frankopanska b.b. positions in Sisak. Both are positioned on the left bank of the Kupa river in Sisak, and the findings give... more
Abstract Apollonia and Dyrrhachium, the two most important Greek cities on the Illyrian coast, issued drachms depicting a cow suckling her calf from the 3rd to the 1st century BC. Large quantities of these drachms have been discovered,... more
Au second âge du Fer, l'espace transpyrénéen compris entre l'Ebre et la Garonne se caractérise par une mosaïque de monnayages divers et méconnus qui rendent compte de la complexité politique, territoriale et ethnique de cette zone au... more
The exceptional Late La Tène style scabbard and its sword discussed in this contribution are today kept in the Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, but came there from the international antiquities market, more precisely from Christie’s... more
The subject of the present analysis are bronze rings (bracelets/armlets?) decorated with a cord ornament, known in archaeological literature as type Șimleul Silvaniei and Rustoiu 3. The paper starts out with an overview of past research... more
In: TURK, Peter, Janka ISTENIČ, Timotej KNIFIC, Tomaž NABERGOJ (eds.) 2009, Ljubljanica – a River and its Past. – Ljubljana : Narodni muzej Slovenije.
Summary on the Magdalensberg metal workshops and craftsmanship for processing iron, copper alloys and gold, 50 BC - AD 50.
Les fibules font partie des meilleurs marqueurs chronologiques de la fin de La Tène pour aborder de manière détaillée l'occupation du territoire. Cette contribution propose une typologie renouvelée des fibules de cette époque fondée sur... more
Article on the Excavations of Gournay-sur-Aronde.
Connections between the inhabitants of pre-Roman Dacia and peoples residing in the area between the Carpathian range and the Baltic Sea is a subject we can hardly consider as well understood. A form possibly helpful for investigating... more
The Celtic cavalry practice known as trimarkisia is only known by a quote in Pausanias (Guide for Greece 10.19.9-11). Although always mentioned when tackling Celtic warfare, little effort has been made to try to explain how it functioned... more
In recent years the number of archaeological finds associated with the Celtic presence in the area north of the Carpathians and the Sudety has grown perceptibly. This evidence is helping to validate the claim that the role played by the... more
La grande vicenda storico-culturale delle invasioni barbariche nell'impero romano, dei definitivi insediamenti barbarici nel territorio imperiale, del tra-monto e della fine dell'impero romano di Occidente, della costituzione dei regni... more
This paper focuses on more than 100 early Roman (50 BC - AD 50) surgical tools, cosmetic implements and containers from the Magdalensberg in southern Noricum, Austria.
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The pdf is equipped with OCR recognition.
La chronologie de La Tène D2 et de l'augustéen dans le pays trévire est portée par des ensembles funéraires aristocratiques qui permettent de préciser les horizons du GR 1 et de distinguer deux étapes dans le GR 2. Cette approche s'appuie... more
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Le secteur de la Croix-Saint-Charles se trouve à la pointe orientale du Mont-Auxois et sa configuration permet un accès relativement aisé à l’oppidum. Deux sections de murus gallicus furent fouillées au début du XXe siècle, respectivement... more