Browsing e-Keltoi Vol. 6 by Title
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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 ... -
Artistic Expression and Material Culture in Celtic Gallaecia
(2004-12-20)The Iron Age art of northwestern Iberia (the ancient Gallaecia) is scarcely known by scholars outside Spain and Portugal, due to the local character of most publications dealing with this topic. This has deprived archaeologists ... -
-Briga Toponyms in the Iberian Peninsula
(2006-02-14)The existence in Hispania of a very large number of place-names with the -briga ending has been used for several decades in reconstructing the languages spoken in pre-Roman times in the Iberian Peninsula. The phonetics of ... -
Celtiberian
(2007-03-16)This work is a grammatical compendium of the Celtiberian language, incorporating the data available through 2003. The more relevant phonological and morphological phenomena are reviewed. These demonstrate that Celtiberian ... -
Celtiberian Ideologies and Religion
(2005-05-23)This article is a reflection upon various aspects of Celtiberian ethics and rituals as well as an attempt to provide a review of the current state of knowledge on both theoretical issues and bibliographic data on the topic ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Celtic Legacy in Galicia
(2008-01-06)The paper focuses on Galicia in northwestern Spain, whose position within the Celtic world has long been the subject of contention. Many scholars have described the region's strong Celtic heritage, but the institutions of ... -
Celtic Place- and Personal-names in Spain and the Socio-political Structure and Evolution of the Celtiberians
(2006-01-14)In this paper two Celtiberian place- and personal-names are examined: Moericus, the name of a Celtiberian war chief in the Second Punic War, and Complega, a town founded by Celtiberian mavericks and conquerd by praetor ... -
Iron Age Archaeology of the Northwest Iberian Peninsula
(2004-09-10)The text offers an overview of the archaeological record of the so-called Cultura Castrexa or Hillfort Culture, corresponding to the Iron Age and part of the Indigenous-Roman period in the north-western Iberian Peninsula, ... -
Mythologizing Identity and History: A Look at the Celtic Past of Galicia
(2006-01-02)Following in the tradition of nineteenth-century Galician historians, who claimed to establish links between Galicia and other alleged Celtic nations, the Xeración Nós maintained the legacy of Celtic ancestry by importing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Celtic Legacy of the Gaita in Galician Music
(2007-09-10)The paper focuses on the traditional music of Galicia with special emphasis on the gaita, or bagpipe, its persistence throughout the centuries as a symbol for the region, and its strong similarities with the instruments ... -
The Celts in Iberia: An Overview
(2005-02-01)A general overview of the study of the Celts in the Iberian Peninsula is offered from a critical perspective. First, we present a brief history of research and the state of research on ancient written sources, linguistics, ... -
The Celts in Portugal
(2005-09-10)The Iberian Peninsula was famous in antiquity for its richness in metal ores, because of which it became a well-known region whose silver, gold, tin, and copper were highly sought after by Mediterranean and other European ... -
The Celts of the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula
(2005-07-12)Archaeological investigations carried out in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula during recent years have contributed to the identification of the cultural characteristics of its ancient populations, called Keltikoi or ... -
The Language(s) of the Callaeci
(2006-05-03)Although there is no direct extant record of the language spoken by any of the peoples of ancient Callaecia, some linguistic information can be recovered through the analysis of the names (personal names, names of deities, ... -
War and Society in the Celtiberian World
(2004-10-26)This study provides an overview of the strong military component of Celtiberian society, dating back to the sixth century BC and manifesting itself especially during the wars against Rome in the second century BC. This ...