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Transplanted Traditions: An Assessment of Welsh Lore and Language in Argentina
(2006-07-27)
For more than a hundred years, Welsh language and culture have survived in the Chubut province of Patagonia, Argentina. While the various stages of Welsh settlement have been well recorded in English, Welsh and Spanish, ...
Celtic Elements in Northwestern Spain in Pre-Roman times
(2005-08-10)
The aim of this article is to present a synthetic overview of the state of knowledge regarding the Celtic cultures in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula. It reviews the difficulties linked to the fact that linguists and ...
Oppida and Celtic society in western Spain
(2005-02-28)
The emergence of large fortified settlements, known as oppida, in "Celtic" Iberia during the Late Iron Age is a process which we are just beginning to understand. As in other areas of temperate Europe, there were probably ...
Analysis of a Celtiberian protective paste and its possible use by Arevaci warriors
(2007-03-13)
This article presents an infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis of residue adhering to a Celtiberian pottery sherd of late Iron Age date from the Arevacian site of Cerro del Castillo, in Ayllón (Segovia, ...
Celtiberians: Problems and Debates
(2005-06-22)
The Celtiberians are undoubtedly the people from ancient Hispania that have attracted the highest level of interest among scholars within the different disciplines (e.g. archaeologists, linguists, and historians). This ...
Religion and Religious Practices of the Ancient Celts of the Iberian Peninsula
(2005-03-10)
The aim of this article is to provide an account of the main features of the religious systems documented in Celtic Hispania, focusing on the following: 1) the effects of Romanization on the indigenous religions, with an ...
A Round Iron Age: The Circular House in the Hillforts of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula
(2008-01-02)
This article provides a diachronic synthesis of domestic space in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula from recent prehistory through the High Middles Ages. Within the theoretical and methodological frameworks of landscape ...
Bezen Perrot: The Breton nationalist unit of the SS, 1943-5
(2008-02-06)
This article charts the origins and course of the wartime Breton collaborationist force, the Bezen Perrot (Perrot Unit). For the first time in English, and employing source material previously unused in any language, it ...
Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula
(2005-11-11)
In order to produce a profile of the Celtic deities of Hispania based on the study of votive altars, a rigorous critique of the inscriptions must be implemented, eliminating those that are not reliable due to their poor ...