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Auteur(s) : McCartney, Mags
Titre(s) : Warfare and violence in the Iron Age of southern France [Texte imprimé] / Mags McCartney
Publication : Oxford : Archaeopress, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii, 148 p.) : ill., cartes ; 30 cm
Collection : BAR international series ; 2403
Lien à la collection : BAR. International series
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-148)
"This study aims to identify patterns of warfare in the southern French Iron Age through
examination of the documentary, settlement, iconographic and osteological evidence
for warfare in this region, each within its chronological context and in tandem with
one another. The Iron Age of southern France remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking
archaeological world. The best known aspects of the archaeological material suggest
a society in which warfare was an overriding preoccupation. Major, fortified centres,
such as Entremont and Saint-Blaise, and the tradition of 'warrior statues' like those
from Entremont and Roquepertuse, suggest that conflict was a recurrent theme. Literary
sources, such as Poseidonius have described the indigenous populations of this area
as a volatile and warlike people who took the heads of their enemies from the battlefield
and displayed or preserved them in their settlements. Finds of skulls, some with nails
still embedded in the bone, appear to verify such reports. The pattern of warfare
which emerges from this analysis is then discussed within some of the more prominent
models of social-anthropological study. This case study offers a more nuanced and
contextual interpretation of warfare in the southern French Iron Age and demonstrates
how, if treated as a form of social interaction, rather than a breakdown in social
norms, might be integrated into wider archaeological interpretations of social and
political change"--Publisher's web site
Sujet(s) : Âge du fer -- France (sud)
Guerre primitive -- France (sud)
Antiquités -- France (sud)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781407309989. - ISBN 1407309986 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42770948w
Notice n° :
FRBNF42770948
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
