Celtic Chiefdom, Celtic State
The Evolution of Complex Social Systems in Prehistoric Europe

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: beyond the mists: forging an ethnological approach to Celtic studies Bettina Arnold, and D. Blair Gibson
Part I. Celtic Political Systems: Research Paradigms:
2. From chiefdom to state organization in Celtic Europe Patrice Brun
3. Building an historical ecology of Gaulish polities Carole L. Crumley
4. The early Celts of west central Europe: the semantics of social structure Franz Fischer
Part II. Recovering Iron Age Social Systems:
5. The material culture of social structure: rank and status in early Iron-Age Europe Bettina Arnold
6. The significance of major settlements in European Iron Age society Olivier Büchsenschütz
7. Early 'Celtic' socio-political relations: ideological representation and social competition in dynamic comparative perspective Michael Dietler
Part III. The Question of Statehood in La Téne Europe:
8. States without centres? The Middle La Tène period in temperate Europe John Collis
9. Late Iron-Age society in Britain and north-east Europe: structural transformation or superficial change? Colin Haselgrove
10. Settlement and social systems at the end of the Iron Age Peter S. Wells
Part IV. Evolution and Ethnohistory: the Protohistoric Polities of Gaul and the British Isles:
11. Modelling chiefdoms in the Scottish Highlands and islands prior to the '45 Robert A. Dodgshon
12. Caesar's perception of Gallic social structures Sean B. Dunham
13. Chiefdoms, confederacies, and statehood in early Ireland D. Blair Gibson
14. Clans are not primordial: pre-Viking Irish society and the modelling of pre-Roman societies in northern Europe Nerys Thomas Patterson.

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