Connecting Elites and Regions HB

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.These 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.In 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.Contents:PrefaceRobert Schumann and Sasja van der Vaart-VerschoofDifferentiation and globalization in Early Iron Age Europe. Reintegrating the Early Hallstatt period (Ha C) into the debateSasja van der Vaart-Verschoof and Robert SchumannMoravia - a connecting Line between North, West and South. To the supra-regional connections and formation of elites in the Early Hallstatt periodErika MakarováThe Iron Age cremation cemetery of Wörgl in Tyrol and the Early Hallstatt Mindelheim horizonMarkus EggAnimals to honour the ancestors: on animal depositions in barrows of the northeast Alpine Hallstatt regionPetra KmeťováHallstatt C sword graves in Continental Gaul: rise of an elite or new system of representation of self in a context of crisis?Pierre-Yves MilcentHallstatt elite burials in Bohemia from the perspective of interregional contactsMartin TrefnýA cluster of chieftains' graves in the Netherlands? Cremating and inhumating elites during Ha C on the Maashorst, the NetherlandsRichard Jansen and Sasja van der Vaart-VerschoofTextile symbolism in Early Iron Age burialsChristoph Huth and Monika KondziellaIdentification and chronological aspects of western influence in northeast Alpine region of Hallstatt cultureLaco ChmeloElites before the Fürstensitze: Hallstatt C sumptuous graves between Main and DanubeManuel Fernández-Götz and Bettina ArnoldThe Early Iron Age in Belgium: earth and fire, and also waterEugène WarmenbolTextiles as Early Iron Age prestige goods - a discussion of visual qualitiesKarina Grömer'Elite graves' in Bavaria. Considerations of practices, status and communication of Early Hallstatt communitiesMelanie AugsteinNew approaches to tracing (landscape) connections on the southeastern fringes of the Alps in the Early Iron Age: the state of (integrated) research in eastern SloveniaMatija ČrešnarElites in the cemetery at Hallstatt, Upper AustriaBettina Glunz-HüskenFrench elite burials of the Early Iron AgeLaurie Tremblay CormierA practice perspective: understanding Early Iron Age elite burials in the southern Netherlands through event-based analysisQuentin Bourgeois and Sasja van der Vaart-VerschoofNew research on sword graves of the Hallstatt C period in HesseWolfram NeyThe Early Hallstatt elite burials in Belgium. An analysis of the funerary ritualGuy De MulderAt the crossroads of the Hallstatt EastCarola Metzner-Nebelsick