Collis J. The European Iron Age

Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0-203-44211-3.This ambitious study documents the underlying features which link the civilizations of the Mediterranean - Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan and Roman - and the Iron Age cultures of central Europe, traditionally associated with the Celts. It deals with the social, economic and cultural interaction in the first millennium BC which culminated in the Roman Empire.
The book has three principle themes: the spread of iron-working from its origins in Anatolia to its adoption over most of Europe; the development of a trading system throughout the Mediterrean world after the collapse of Mycenaean Greece and its spread into temperate Europe; and the rise of ever more complex societies, including states and cities, and eventually empires.
Dr Collis takes a new look at such key concepts as population movement, diffusion, trade, social structure and spatial organization, with some challenging new views on the Celts in particular.Attitudes to the Past.
Population movement and ethnicity.
Diffusion.
Trade.
Social structure.
Spatial organisation.
Chronology.
The Old Order.
The origin of iron working.
The end of Mycenaean Greece.
Iron working in Greece.
Proto-Geometric Greece.
Late Bronze Age Europe.
Reawakening in the East.
The ninth century.
Greece and Cyprus in the eighth century.
Italy in the eighth century.
The Trade Explosion.
Greece in the seventh century.
Etruscan civilisation.
Situla Art.
Central and western Europe in the seventh century.
Hallstatt D, 600–475 BC.
The Tide Turns, 500–250 BC.
The classical world of Greece.
The classical world of Italy.
Northern Italy and southern France.
Orientalising in central Europe—La Tène A.
La Tène B-C—the age of migration.
The Economic Revival.
La Tène C, second century BC.
The oppida.
The Roman Empire and Beyond.
Britain.
Germany.
The impact of conquest.