This volume presents a selection of papers given at the General Session 5 (Metal Ages / Âges des métaux) of the XIX UISPP World Congress, originally planned to take place in early September 2020 in Meknes (Morocco), but postponed due to the outbreak of the worldwide Covid pandemic and eventually held as a virtual on-line event from 2 to 7 September 2021. Despite those challenging circumstances, and very much to the credit of the Meknes organizing committee, the Congress turned out to be a resounding success, with many scholars, particularly from African countries attending who would not previously have had an opportunity to participate in such a forum.
The eight papers provide a vivid and representative cross section of the wide range of subjects covered in this session and range from the Chalcolithic in Northwest Africa and Iberia to the Late Bronze Age in Ireland and the Iron Age in Central Europe. They include artefact as well as landscape studies and attempt to shed light on issues as diverse as the principles of chronology building, the role of alleged ‘defensive’ enclosures, pottery studies, use-wear analysis of Iron Age weaponry and the Hallstatt/La Tène transition in the eastern Alps.
Contents
Foreword to the XIX UISPP Congress Proceedings
Introduction
Les objets en coquilles d’œufs d’autruche du Chalcolithique en Espagne – Linda Boutoille
The painted pottery from the Chalcolithic mega-site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain) and its possible relationship with Gar Cahal, northern Morocco – Alfredo Mederos Martín, Thomas X. Schuhmacher, Juan Manuel Vargas Jiménez, Charles Bashore Acero and Lorena Garvin Arcos
Dérive chronologique ou changement de paradigme ? Le cas du Bronze ancien en Europe centrale – Mireille David-Elbiali
Between defensive and symbolic. ‘Fortified’ hilltop sites in the Irish Late Bronze Age – Dirk Brandherm, Cormac McSparron and Linda Boutoille
Analyses chimiques et pétrographiques des céramiques du premier âge du Fer dans le Sud-Ouest de la péninsule Ibérique : bilan et perspectives – Michał Krueger, Dirk Brandherm et Violeta Moreno Megías
The emergence of Celtic culture in Styria – Florian Mauthner
On the symbolic values of the Iron Age walls in the western Iberian Plateau: an approach to the landscape archaeology of warfare – Luis Berrocal Rangel, Lucía Ruano, Pablo Paniego Díaz, Gabriel Bartolomé and Luis Berrocal Maya
Celtic swordplay: the contribution of the use-wear analysis of swords and scabbards from the La Tène site – Guillaume Reich
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