Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe
by
Ian Armit
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521877563
ISBN-13
9780521877565
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 19th, 2012
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
62 grams
Dimensions
18.50 x 25.60 x 2.10 cms
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This book examines the widespread evidence for the removal, curation and display of the human head in Iron Age Europe.
Across Iron Age Europe the human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility status, gender, and more. Evidence for the removal, curation and display of heads ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. Traditionally, this material has been associated with a Europe-wide ''head-cult'', and used to support the idea of a unified Celtic culture in prehistory. This book demonstrates instead how headhunting and head-veneration were practised across a range of diverse and fragmented Iron Age societies. Using case studies from France, Britain and elsewhere, it explores the complex and subtle relationships between power, religion, warfare and violence in Iron Age Europe.
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