Late Celtic and Early Roman transition

Les travaux de terrain repris depuis 2001 sur l’oppidum du Camp de César, à Coulounieix – Chamiers (Dordogne), conduisent à modifier le schéma traditionnel selon lequel cet oppidum laténien, habitat principal du peuple des Pétrucores, aurait été abandonné peu après la Conquête romaine au profit d’une nouvelle capitale : Vesunna (Périgueux). Les fouilles montrent, au contraire, que les deux sites ont coexisté pendant au moins un demi-siècle : le Camp de César est encore habité, en effet, dans la première moitié du 1er siècle p. C. Cette occupation présente une forme structurée (voirie, bâtiment, fosses), dont la nature et la fonction restent cependant à déterminer.

Nex excavations on the Camp de César (or La Curade) oppidum near Coulounieix-Chamiers (Dordogne); show that this site, considerd as the major settlement of the Petrucorii during Late La Tène, was not abandoned immediatly after the Roman conquest for a new capital, Vesunna (Périgueux), as it was traditionnaly presumed. On the contrary, the two sites existed together for at least half a century, since the Camp de César was still inhabited in the first half of the first century p.C. This occupation (road, wooden buuildings, pits) is yet to be precised.

Spanish, French, German and British academics and researchers will participate in the First International conference: “Iron Age Peoples of the Cantabric Iron Age”, to be held in Santander to deepen the historical knowledge of the north of the Iberian Peninsula, its inhabitants and their ties with the Celtic cultures of the European Atlantic façade, between late Prehistory and the High Middle Ages.

The conference will take place in Santander (Cantabria, Spain) on May 24 and 25, and will end in Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia, Spain) on May 26 with a visit to the archaeological site of Monte Bernorio and a recital by the renowned Scottish musician John Kenny, who will play musical instruments which are replicas of ancient Celtic instruments discovered in archaeological sites from the Celtic world of the Iron Age.

This International conference has been organized by the Monte Bernorio Institute of Studies of the Antiquity of the Cantabrian (IMBEAC) and it is directed by Dr. Jesús F. Torres-Martínez, PhD in archaeology and a specialist in the Iron Age of the north of the Iberian Peninsula.

The importance of what we might call as Celtic mare nostrum will be studied throughout the congress. The Celtic sea was a crucial factor that facilitated the contacts between the peoples of the Cantabrian and the rest of the European Celtic world. The elements of the Celtic past that have survived in our time will also be analyzed.

The presentations will deal with many aspects of everyday life in the Cantabrian area in the Iron Age: culture, language, war, music, travels, the contacts with Celtic European peoples, and the struggle against Rome. We will also analyse how the Celtic sea became a bridge in the “bright” season allowing Celtic peoples living around it to meet. The speakers will also study the survival of many Celtic elements of the Iron Age in our current life, such as toponymy, land planning, elements of folklore, and several popular rites as well as some features of Christian religiosity.

The three-day conference will be held in Santander and in Aguilar de Campoo; the first two days, May 24 and 25, will take place at the CASYC (Social and Cultural Action Centre of Caja Cantabria) headquarters in Santander. The third day will take place in Aguilar de Campoo, and it will consist of a visit to the emblematic archaeological site of Monte Bernorio, one of the most important Iron Age sites in Europe. Later Miss Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos will make a presentation on archaeomusic, and finally the famous Scottish musician and composer John Kenny, who is a specialist in ancient musical instruments, will give a recital at the Theatre Amor Auditorium.

A series of shafts found during the course of a site evaluation outside the Roman fortress of Manduessedum, (Mancetter) North Warwickshire, in the early 1990s, are less mundane than they first appeared. Believed to date to the second century AD, the evidence seems to point to a little-known Romano-Celtic religion. It was a controversial proposition at the time of discovery.
The article is from a diary of discovery and research.

Le répertoire iconographique de La Tène finale des IIe et Ier siècles av. J.-C. comprend un grand nombre de représentations zoomorphes, parmi lesquelles le thème du protomé de boviné aux cornes bouletées se dégage. Il semble surtout associé aux grands chenets de fer qui apparaissent dès la seconde moitié du IIe s. av. J.-C. dans les contextes funéraires de Gaule Belgique et des territoires qui lui sont historiquement et géographiquement liés comme le Sud de l'Angleterre. L'examen du corpus des objets connus et publiés au nord de la Gaule sert de base à une enquête iconographique qui aboutit à une interprétation liée aux mutations économiques des sociétés de la fin de l'Âge du Fer.

"This archaeological guide presents the existing state of knowledge on the Monte Bernorio oppidum: its excavation history, new discoveries made by the current research team, its defence works, urban structure, material culture, and other elements related to this Iron Age fortified town (hillfort). There is also mention to the more recent remains of Spanish Civil War trenches. The aim is to offer the reader a comprehensive, self-guided tour to the archaeological site through its texts and images.

Keywords: Monte Bernorio, oppidum, Iron Age, Northern Spain, Archaeological Guide."

An extensive literature study and inventorisation of the La Tène glass bracelets found in Flanders (Belgium) shows that there is a great similarity in find assemblages between Flanders and the Netherlands. This has led to the conclusion that most of the La Tène glass bracelets from Flanders were produced in the workshops in the Lower Rhine region in the Netherlands, during the Middle and Late Iron Age and the first part of the Early Roman Period. Some bracelets however, especially the older ones, may have been made in other workshops spread all over the La Tène Culture area in Europe. Despite the overall similarity between the find assemblages of Flanders and the Netherlands, a small, yet unmistakable difference has been noted, which has led to the suggestion that the end of the La Tène glass bracelet production in the Netherlands must be situated approximately in the middle of the 1st century AD, half a century later than originally thought. On the basis of the chemical composition...

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 sur l'analyse croisée des céramiques et des fibules.

Rescue excavations near St. Paul in the Lavant valley (Carinthia, southern Austria) yielded results from the Copper Age to the most recent time. Main Features: several cremation graves from the Urnfield culture and Roman imperial period.

The end of the Iron Age and the start of the Roman Era is a very dynamic period, which is reflected in the pottery assemblages of the Dutch river Area (civitas Batavorum) and the southern Netherlands (civitas Tungrorum). This paper presents a preliminary overview of the pottery in these regions.

En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX se descubrió en un campo de Estollo un ara votiva romana con inscripción dedicada a un dios de nombre indígena. Tras siglo y medio de investigaciones, mediante el análisis crítico de los estudios realizados y la comparación con otras mitologías, podemos establecer una interpretación bastante fiable tanto del sentido del nombre como de algunas características de su culto.

This is the first translation for our age of Year 6 of The Coligny Calendar from December 27, 2006 to December 16, 2007. It was used in the continuing cycle of the calendar for the year 2017 and now for the year 2025- 2026. This is your calendar for the next year. Each year will follow as the pattern will repeat in five year cycles using the solar-lunar-stellar and planetary cycles of the celestial bodies marked by the Druids on Stonehenge and the stone circles in the Celtic lands.

This thesis considers the Iron Age coinages found in hoards within a particular study area in northern East Anglia. The study area was widely defined to attempt to capture all the coins considered by previous scholars to belong to the Iron Age tribe, the Iceni. Other coins of the Iceni outside the study area found in hoards are also considered. The historical context and previous numismatic research on these coins is reviewed. All coin hoards within the study area are fully described and reviewed, and two hoards are presented as detailed case studies, including a die study on the largest number of Iron Age hoard coins yet undertaken. A classification of the coin series is given, with each coin type fully described, illustrated, and photographed. The distribution of the coin hoards within and outside the study area is considered, results discussed and conclusions drawn. A chronology is suggested for the coin types and for the deposition of the hoards. The manufacture and minting of t...

This PhD thesis, awarded in 2006, can be found here in this link: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11946/ The thesis considers the Late Iron Age coinages found in hoards within a particular study area in northern East Anglia, England. The study area is widely defined to attempt to capture all the coins considered by previous scholars to belong to the Iron Age tribe, the Iceni. Other coins of the Iceni outside the study area which were found in hoards are also considered. The historical context and previous numismatic research on these coins is reviewed. All coin hoards within the study area are fully described and reviewed, and two hoards are presented as detailed case studies, including a full die study on the largest number of Iron Age hoard coins ever undertaken (ie before 2006). The distribution of the coin hoards within and outside the study area is considered, results discussed and conclusions drawn. A classification of the coin series is given, with each coin type fully described, illustrated, and photographed. A chronology is suggested for the coin types and for the deposition of the hoards. The manufacture and minting of the coins is discussed and suggestions for mint sites given. Finally, a number of detailed conclusions are drawn, many of which relate to relations between the Iceni and Rome, and their status as a client kingdom of Rome, which it is argued, was of long standing. Supporting data for the above and numerous plates are presented in Volume II.

The Tyrrhenian Sea appears as a geographically well defined space, enclosed within the Italian coasts and the big islands. During the Proto-historic Age, therefore, this is the scenery of development for a mosaic of cultures whose some will produce the under-layer of great ancient civilizations. With the setting of the cultural, commercial and colonial nets, of archaic and then classic periods, native and far-away peoples here give their contribution to the building up of new complex identities, although joined together thanks to the shared vector of the navigations and of the exchanges. Their cohabitation on a territory more and more reduced by the economic tensions and by the early will of predominance, at the origin of the first international conflicts in the Western Mediterranean Sea, will arrive therefore very often to some worthy forms of syncretism and of melting, voluntary or forced ones. Therefore, Ligurians, Etruscans and other peoples of the Pre-Roman Italy, Sicilians, Sardinians, Corses, but also Greeks and Punicians have given a contribute, after a balance concept, continuously put under discussion, into writing almost four centuries of small or big stories, up to the arrival of the Roman world.
The aim of the international day of studies FERTIGE13 (acronym of Iron –Age-, Tyrrhenian –Sea-, Genoa 2013) is to make dynamic the net of the young researchers, gathering about a dozen of PhD students and PhD doctors (up to five years since the end of the PhD), from different nations, who deal subjects concerning the space and the chronology in this way defined for the meeting, with a special remark for the inter-disciplinary approaches. The lecturers will be invited to present some papers related to this subject, pointing out the setting within a context on an inter-regional scale and focusing on the concerned methods, in the optic to compare at the best the nowadays dynamics of research among the different institutions.

This workshop will be kept on Thursday the 5th of December 2013 at the University of Genoa (University of the Studies of Genoa, via Balbi 2, 16126 Genoa). The papers will be in Italian, French or English; they will last 20 minutes and they will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

A summary of about 300 words with the presentation of title and of the content of the paper, as well as the affiliation and statute remarks of the lecturer (or lecturers), jointly to a CV summarized in an A4, will have to be sent within the 15th of September 2013 to the organizing committee:

Eliana PICCARDI
Doctorant, Università degli Studi di Genova, Université d’Aix/Marseille I
elianapiccardi@gmail.com
and
Kewin PECHE-QUILICHINI
Chercheur associé, LAMPEA, Université Aix-Marseille I, LRA Corse
bainzu.di.baiucheddu@voila.fr

The summary will be submitted to the scientific board of the workshop who will examine every proposal in sight of the acceptation or not, and will communicate it within the 15th of October 2013.