The wheeled cauldrons and the wine

Rausing, Gad

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00085884

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“…Alcohol was probably a primary component of secular displays of generosity necessary for Iron Age leaders in the maintenance of their roles and their relationship with the community, important in the performance of sociopolitical feasting (Arnold 1999;Dietler, 1990Dietler, , 1996Dietler, , 1999Dietler and Hayden 2001;Rausing 1997). Alcoholic beverages also were mind-altering substances used in rites and rituals when religious elites entered the trance state described by Classical authors and indigenous myths.…”

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Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Thurston

2009

J Archaeol Res

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While some researchers continue to focus fruitfully on traditional issues, in recent years new perspectives, some strongly revisionist, have developed within European Iron Age archaeology, moving it from a long-static state into a rapidly changing milieu. Studies of colonialism, imperialism, and interaction have undergone sequential shifts into new territory, while topics related to sacred activity, political apparatuses, and the ruler-subject relationship have undergone substantial reworking. Perspectives absent from earlier literature have emerged: gender, age, ethnicity, and identity, and interpretations employing theories of practice, agency, landscape, and embodiment have emerged, mirroring broader disciplinary shifts. An overarching trend sees Iron Age Europe as a series of interactive societies with both broad similarities and sharp regional, even local, differences, moving through time and ever-changing relationships, influences, and trajectories. The collision of traditional and revisionist scholarship has produced debate, some heated, but has improved and invigorated the field.

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