Metal Ages / Âges des métaux

Dirk Brandherm studied Archaeology, Classics and Social Anthropology at the universities of Münster, Edinburgh and Freiburg. Most of his work has been in European Bronze and Iron Age archaeology, with one focus on metalwork production and depositional practices. He currently holds a position of Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

• Foreword to the XIX UISPP Congress Proceedings Introduction Les objets en coquilles d’œufs d’autruche du Chalcolithique en Espagne – Linda Boutoille The painted pottery from the Chalcolithic mega-site of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain) and its possible relationship with Gar Cahal, northern Morocco – Alfredo Mederos Martín, Thomas X. Schuhmacher, Juan Manuel Vargas Jiménez, Charles Bashore Acero and Lorena Garvin Arcos Dérive chronologique ou changement de paradigme ? Le cas du Bronze ancien en Europe centrale – Mireille David-Elbiali Between defensive and symbolic. ‘Fortified’ hilltop sites in the Irish Late Bronze Age – Dirk Brandherm, Cormac McSparron and Linda Boutoille Analyses chimiques et pétrographiques des céramiques du premier âge du Fer dans le Sud-Ouest de la péninsule Ibérique : bilan et perspectives – Michał Krueger, Dirk Brandherm et Violeta Moreno Megías The emergence of Celtic culture in Styria – Florian Mauthner On the symbolic values of the Iron Age walls in the western Iberian Plateau: an approach to the landscape archaeology of warfare – Luis Berrocal Rangel, Lucía Ruano, Pablo Paniego Díaz, Gabriel Bartolomé and Luis Berrocal Maya Celtic swordplay: the contribution of the use-wear analysis of swords and scabbards from the La Tène site – Guillaume Reich Authors / Auteurs