Iron age art

Confession: I’m not an archaeologist nor a historian—at least not in any meaningful sense, though I do delight in aspects of both. But I was lucky enough to see Barry Cunliffe speak about the Ancient Celts at the Oxford Literature Festival earlier this year and then to have front row seats to the recording of this podcast, and I wanted to share a little of what I’ve learned.

Havor, Gotland 400-600 AD, Gotlands fornsal, July 22, 2013

Scatha’s School of War — Illustration of an Iron Age scrimmage in ancient Scotland by Wayne Reynolds, Osprey Publishing Ltd. And now a word about the old country.

When does human history begin? If we seek help from anthropology, then we find that the first animals of the homininans appeared in Africa around 6 million years ago and the first Homo sapiens appeared 600,000 to 200,000 years ago, also in Africa. ...

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The British Museum is currently displaying a variety of exquisitely crafted Celtic armors and weapons. You may think that the Celts weren't so skillful

Newgrange (Irish: Sí an Bhrú) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath, Ireland, located about one kilometre north of the River Boyne. It was built during the Neolithic period around 3200 BC, making…

The mysterious symbolism of the horse pervades the artwork of the coins of the Iron Age Celtic peoples of Atlantic Europe. From the Thracian Celts of the Balkan region, to the tribes of Britain, Gaul and Hispania - all produced coins which depicted a strange and compelling set of images, perhaps providing a clue to…

The warrior on the left is from the Urnfield Culture which was a Bronze Age group which were the ancestors of both Celts and Germanic peoples of Central and Western Europe also known as Hallstatt A and proto-Celts. Illustration is by Angus McBride.

The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Neuenburgersee in Switzerland, where a rich cache of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857. La Tène culture developed and flourished during the late Iron Age (from 450 BCE to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BCE) in Belgium, eastern France, Switzerland, Austria, Southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Romania.

The Bronze Age 2000-800 B.C.- Note;This chart refers to the bronze age "Indo-Europeans" as Germans, although many of the same artifacts have been labeled elsewhere as Celtic or Scandinavian....G. L. Freeman

The Iron Age was a period in human history that started between 1200 B.C. and 600 B.C. During the Iron Age, people across much of Europe, Asia and parts of Africa began making tools and weapons from iron and steel.

A fascinating new study chronicles the family histories of European Bronze Age households, revealing the presence of surprising marital practices,

Culture: Pazyryk Location: Russia Date: Fourth to Third centuries B.C. Some of the most spectacular tattoos […]

The Iron Age is a critical period in human history that marked significant advances in technology, civilization, and cultural expansion. This era, primarily defined by the use of iron as the predominant material for making tools and weapons, ushered in a new epoch of human development.

A skeleton buried with male weapons and female jewelry in the Suontaka grave—long a mystery to archaeologists—appears to have been nonbinary.

This fun, unique coloring page introduces students to common tools of the Neolithic (New Stone Age): a stone tranchet, stone pick, stone mallet, horn axe, horn hammer, polished stone axe-hammer, flint arrowhead, and flint knife.