Connecting elites and regions : perspectives on contacts relations and differentiation during the Early Iron Age Hallstatt C period in Northwest and Central Europe / edited by Robert Schumann & Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof.

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The Early Iron Age Hallstatt C period in Northwest and Central Europe is marked by the emergence of monumental tumuli with lavish burials, some of which are known as chieftain's or princely graves. This new burial rite reflects one of the most noteworthy developments in Early Iron Age Europe: the rise of a new and elaborate way of elite representation north of the Alps.0These sumptuous burials contain beautiful weaponry, bronze vessels and extravagantly decorated wagons and horse-gear. They reflect long-distance connections in material culture and elite (burial) practices across the breadth of Northwest and Central Europe. Research into this period, however, tends to be regionally focused and poorly accessible to scholars from other areas - language barriers in particular are a hindering factor.0In an attempt to overcome this, Connecting Elites and Regions brings together scholars from several research traditions and nations who present regional overviews and discussions of elite burials and material culture from all over Northwest and Central Europe. In many cases these are the first overviews available in English and together they make regional research accessible to a wider audience. As such this volume contributes to and hopes to stimulate research on the Early Iron Age Hallstatt C period on a European scale.

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Machine generated contents note: Differentiation and globalization in Early Iron Age Europe. Reintegrating the early Hallstatt period (Ha C) into the debate / Robert Schumann -- Moravia -- a connecting Line between North, West and South. To the supra-regional connections and formation of elites in the early Hallstatt period / Erika Makarova -- Iron Age cremation cemetery of Worgl in Tyrol and the early Hallstatt Mindelheim horizon / Markus Egg -- Animals to honour the ancestors: on animal depositions in barrows of the northeast Alpine Hallstatt region / Petra Kmetova -- Hallstatt C sword graves in Continental Gaul: rise of an elite or new system of representation of self in a context of crisis? / Pierre-Yves Milcent -- Hallstatt elite burials in Bohemia from the perspective of interregional contacts / Martin Trefny -- cluster of chieftains' graves in the Netherlands? Cremating and inhumating elites during Ha C on the Maashorst, NL / Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof -- Textile symbolism in Early Iron Age burials / Monika Kondziella -- Identification and chronological aspects of western influence in northeast Alpine region of Hallstatt culture / Ladislav Chmelo -- Elites before the Furstensitze: Hallstatt C sumptuous graves between Main and Danube / Bettina Arnold -- Early Iron Age in Belgium: earth and fire, and also water / Eugene Warmenbol -- Textiles as Early Iron Age prestige goods -- a discussion of visual qualities / Karina Gromer -- Èlite graves' in Bavaria. Considerations of practices, status and communication of early Hallstatt communities / Melanie Augstein -- New approaches to tracing (landscape) connections on the southeastern fringes of the Alps in the Early Iron Age: the state of (integrated) research in eastern Slovenia / Matija Cresnar -- Elites in the cemetery at Hallstatt, Upper Austria / Bettina Glunz-Husken -- French elite burials of the Early Iron Age / Laurie Tremblay Cormier -- practice perspective: understanding Early Iron Age elite burials in the southern Netherlands through event-based analysis / Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof -- New research on sword graves of the Hallstatt C period in Hesse / Wolfram Ney -- early Hallstatt elite burials in Belgium. An analysis of the funerary ritual / Guy De Mulder.

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