Life and Death in the Iron Age

by Foster, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9781854441799
• ISBN10: 1854441795
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Ashmolean Museum

Summary

This is an introduction for the general reader, looking at the archaeology of Europe in the last prehistoric period before the Roman conquest (from c800 BC to AD 43). The archaeological collection of the Ashmolean Museums are used to illustrate a series of themes about the lives and deaths of people at this time, their appearance, clothes and ornaments, their economy and trade, how they produced and consumed their food, and the warfare of the period as shown through weapons. The collection at the Ashmolean owes much to Sir John Evans. The excavations and objects from the important early Iron Age cemetery of Hallstatt, Austria, some of which were excavated by Sir John, are covered in some detail. The text is lavishly supplemented by colour illustrations, particularly of exhibits from the Ashmolean Department of Antiquities.

Author Biography

Jennifer Foster is an honorary fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Bibliography	iv
Acknowledgements	iv
Illustrations	iv
England under the Stuarts	1	(8)
Puritans, separatists and religion in the seventeenth century	9	(4)
Civil war and parliamentary reform	13	(4)
Settlement and trade	17	(4)
Progress in the arts	21	(8)
Symbols of social status	29	(5)
Craft and industry	34	(3)
Two industrial success-stories: pottery and glass	37	(4)
The new learning and the expansion of education	41	(3)
Clothing and accessories	44	(4)
The Stuart twilight	48