Iron Age identity

Fingerprinting the Iron Age.

Approaches to identity in the European Iron Age. Integrating South-Eastern Europe into the debate.

23rd - 25th September, 2011. Magdalene College and McDonald Institute, Cambridge

The main goals of the conference were:

to encourage dialogue on a general level between South-East European and British archaeology;
to provide the occasion for South-East European, British and other European archaeologists to conceptualise their views on Iron Age identity;
to make South-East European researchers aware of how identity issues are tackled by scholars from Britain and other parts of Europe as well as the other way around
to familiarize Britain based researchers with the latest Iron Age discoveries from South-East Europe

Further details here:

Contributors were invited to present papers on the construction of identity in the European Iron Age. Suggested topics for identity construction included, but were not limited to:

technology
settlement and place
burial and the body
art and material culture

Original programme here:

Original abstracts here:

Conference Photo here:

Archived organisational details:

Conference report in the European Archaeologist:

Publication schedule and details:

Links to sites of Iron Age interest:

Further details from Catalin Popa and Simon Stoddart.

Details of the next conference in September 2012 - Gardening Time in the Bronze Age and Iron Age:

We are grateful to the McDonald Institute, Magdalene College and the Archaeology section of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology for core support

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