An atlas for Celtic studies; archaeology and names in ancient Europe and early medieval Ireland, Britain, and Brittany.9781842173091 An atlas for Celtic studies Celtic Studies is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to a Celtic people. This ranges from archaeology to history, the focus lying on the study of the various Celtic languages, living and extinct. ; archaeology and names in ancient Europe and early medieval Ireland, Britain, and Brittany. Koch, John T. Oxbow Books 2007 215 pages $100.00 Hardcover Celtic studies publications DA140 This atlas contains not only well-produced maps of the Celtic world but an immense amount of accompanying scholarship on the archaeology and place-names; it asserts itself as not a narrative history but is reliant on the most abundant evidence for early Celtic-speaking peoples: archaeological and linguistic. Covering the late Bronze Age Bronze Age, period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons. Pure copper and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, were used indiscriminately at first; this early period is sometimes called the to the central Middle Ages in the British Isles British Isles: see Great Britain; Ireland. , Gaul, Northern Italy, west-central Europe, Anatolia, the eastern Balkans, and the Pontic Steppes, each map is supplemented with text discussing general observations, and linguistic, archaeological, and textual evidence. The latter half of the publication contains categories of evidence from both the ancient and medieval time frames, including site types, artifact types, linguistic evidence, and battles and boundaries. This title is the result of a research project carried out at the University of Wales Affiliated institutions
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