Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age

Peter S. Wells is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His books include How Ancient Europeans Saw the World (Princeton, 2012), Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered (Norton, 2008), and The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (Princeton, 1999).

• Contents: 1. The Project and its Context, 2. The Setting—Kelheim in its Environment, 3. Research History at Late Iron Age Kelheim; The University of Minnesota Excavations, 1987–1991: 4. The Course of Excavation, 5. Results of Excavations, 6. The Archaeological Material Recovered; Analysis: 7. Chronology of the Oppidum Occupation, 8. The Carbonized Plant Remains, by Hansjörg Küster, 9. Vertebrate Faunal Remains from Kelheim, by Pam J. Crabtree, 10. Iron Production at Kelheim, by Carl Blair, 11. Labor Specialization in Late Iron Age Temperate Europe: The Evidence from the Kelheim Iron, by Michael N. Geselowitz, 12. Paste Groups as a Unit of Analysis: Preliminary Report on the Ceramics from the 1987 Excavations on the Mitterfeld, by Susan Malin-Boyce, 13. The Four Celtic Coins, by Bernhard Overbeck and Peter S. Wells, 14. Trade at Kelheim, 15. The Landscape Survey, 1990–1991, by Matthew L. Murray; Interpretation: 16. Material Culture and Settlement: Site Structure, Economic Behavior, and Communication, 17. Material Expression of Ritual and Cult, 18. The Oppida and Cultural Change in Late Iron Age Europe; Continuity at Kelheim: 19. Continuity of Religious Tradition at Kelheim and the Foundation of Weltenburg Abbey, by Frederick Suppe; 20. Conclusion; References Cited