Celtiberians: Problems and Debates
Francisco Burillo Mozota, Centro de Estudios Celtibéricos de Segeda
Seminario de Arqueología y Etnología Turolense
Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Teruel
Abstract
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 critical review of the post-1998 literature on the Celtiberians has been divided into nine sections: the meaning of the word "Celtiberians", the Celtiberian language, the formation of the Celtiberian culture, population, Celtiberian migrations, economy, the study of rituals through an examination of ceramics, mortuary rituals, and Celto-mania and the Celtiberians.
Keywords
Celtiberians, Iberian Peninsula, Celts, Urnfield Culture, Celtiberian language, City-states
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Table of Contents
| 1. | Foreword |
| 2. | Introduction |
| 3. | Celtiberia: One Word with Diverse Meanings |
| 4. | The Celtiberian Language |
| 4.1. | The Urnfield Culture peoples and the Celtiberian language |
| 4.2. | Other suggestions for the origin of the Celtiberian language |
| 4.3. | Celtiberian: A non-Celtic Indo-European language? |
| 5. | The Formation of the Celtiberian Culture |
| 5.1. | The Celtiberians and the Urnfield Culture |
| 5.2. | Celtiberians, Atlantic Bronze Age, and the Cogotas culture |
| 5.3. | Emphasising the Iberians |
| 5.4. | Historical processes as the object of study in the development of Celtiberian peoples |
| 6. | The Population |
| 6.1. | The castros or villages |
| 6.2. | The oppida or cities |
| 7. | Celtiberian Migrations |
| 7.1. | Celtiberians and Celtic Baeturia |
| 7.2. | Celtiberians in Carpetania |
| 7.3. | Celtiberians in the north of the Iberian Peninsula and in Aquitania |
| 8. | Economy |
| 8.1. | Agriculture |
| 8.2. | Livestock breeding |
| 8.3. | New scholarly strategies for the study of the nutritional diet |
| 8.4. | Mining and metallurgy: Iron and silver |
| 8.5. | Metrology: weights and measurements |
| 9. | Pottery: Images, Codes, and Rituals |
| 9.1. | A libation ritual among Celtiberian family groups |
| 10. | The Archaeology of Death |
| 10.1. | Cremation necropoli |
| 10.2. | Inhumations and the problem of human sacrifices |
| 11. | From History to the Present: Celto-mania Reaches the Celtiberians |
| 12. | Epilogue |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Bibliography | |
