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2) Norway
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Examines the life and culture of prehistoric Norway from its Late Iron Age to about 1000 A.D.
3) Age of Iron
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100 BC-140 AD. The leaders of the British Celtic tribes are trading with Europe and enjoying the best that civilisation can offer. Then the Romans invade, and everything changes. We witness the fighting for control of Britain, and the Roman obsession with gold, tin and silver. Boudicca and her rebellion fail and the Romans finally draw a line at Hadrian's Wall.
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500-100 BC. The Celtic Iron Age begins. The fastgrowing tribes of Britain turn violent. But out of the fighting something remarkable appears - glorious art and design; magnificent swords of a lavish beauty never seen before. The Celts may never have existed as a genetic people, but as a culture they generated extraordinary riches - iron age warriors, druids and the first kings.
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"An Archaeology of Images presents a new interpretation of the ways images worked within ancient European societies, in the period from 600 BC to AD 400." "Using archaeology and social anthropology, the author investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued, and seeks to undermine the usual interpretation of statues, reliefs and figurines as passive things to be looked at or worshipped. It is clear that the deposition of images...
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"This book brings together twenty-five papers by A.M. Snodgrass, some of them previously published only in rather inaccessible places, which have contributed to this change. They cover four decades of work on pre-Classical and Classical Greece and some adjacent fields of scholarship, beginning in the 1960s when Classical archaeology was not widely seen as a free-standing subject. They chart the progress of a movement for the intellectual independence...
12) The age of iron
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Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles looks at the winners, losers and survivors of the great Bronze Age collapse, a regional catastrophe that wiped out the hard-won achievements of civilization in the eastern Mediterranean.
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"This comprehensive book explores the spectacular art of the first millennium B.C. from the Near East to Western Europe. This was the world of Odysseus, in which trade proliferated with Phoenician merchants; of King Midas, whose tomb was adorned with treasures; and of the Bible, whose stories are illuminated by recent artistic and archaeological discoveries. It was also a time of rich cultural exchange across the Mediterranean and Near East as diverse...
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