Archaeology

Where do you live? Iron Age settlement types from farms to cities - Workshop

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Programme at a Glance

14.00 Welcome and introduction to the workshop

  • Manuel Fernández-Götz & Caroline von Nicolai

14.10 Social theory, settlement archaeology and the Greek Iron Age

  • John Bintliff

14.40 In the shadow of death: burials and urbanism in the central Italian and Sicilian Iron Age

  • Robert Leighton

15.10 Living in hillforts in Britain and Ireland: definitely, maybe, never - or all of the above?

  • Ian Ralston

15.40 Coffee break

16.00 The Oppida: agro-urban landscapes in Late Iron Age Europe

  • Manuel Fernández-Götz

16.30 Country life: rural settlements in Late Iron Age southern Germany

  • Caroline von Nicolai

17.00 “That tower of Scottish prehistory”: The Brochs of Scotland in context

  • Tanja Romankiewicz

17.30 Final discussion

The event is part of the activities organised during the Erasmus + visit of Dr Caroline von Nicolai (Munich).

No booking required. For more information please contact Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz  on M.Fernandez-Gotz@ed.ac.uk

Image: Faber Courtial © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

Mar 28 2018 -

Where do you live? Iron Age settlement types from farms to cities - Workshop

This workshop will discuss the diversity of Iron Age settlement types across space and time, from Scotland to Greece and from Sicily to Central Europe. (Published 15 February, 2018)

Room 1.416, Teaching room 9, Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teviot Place