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In this book, Dennis Harding addresses contemporary concerns about information and its interpretation. His focus is on the archaeology of prehistoric and early historic Britain, and the transformation over two centuries in the interpretation of the archaeological heritage by changes in the prevailing political, social, and intellectual climate.

Widely regarded as major visible field monuments of the Iron Age, hillforts are central to an understanding of later prehistoric communities in Britain and Europe. Harding reviews the changing perceptions of hillforts and the future prospects for hillfort research, highlighting aspects of contemporary investigation and interpretation.

In this volume, Harding examines the deposition of Iron Age human and animal remains in Britain and challenges the assumption that there should have been any regular form of cemetery in prehistory, arguing that the dead were more commonly integrated into settlements of the living than segregated into dedicated cemeteries.

The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the impact of Roman expansion and its social and economic effects on local populations on both sides of the border. Harding provides a comprehensive picture of the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period and confirms the importance of northern Britain to the wider European and Atlantic Iron Age. This second edition is fully updated to assess new discoveries and advanced ...

The essays contained in this volume were first delivered at the Tenth International Congress of Celtic Studies held at Edinburgh in July 1995. It was recognised that the archaeological and linguistic papers on the Celtic Iron Age included new data from a wide spectrum of locations - from Ireland to the Ukraine - combined with perspectives on and approaches to the data that were new and valuable to a UK context.

In a world dedicated to the plight of the weak and the suffering . . . who will defend the joyous?when journalist Trish vinson is sent to cover the controversial show of painter Joseph Anton, she doesn't know what to expect. The art world's rarefied arbiters of public taste denounce his vibrant, lushly erotic work as corrupt and pornographic. But Trish is astonished when the radiantly joyful universe created by Anton's masterful brushwork tran...