Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe

by Ian Armit

Book Overview

Across Iron Age Europe the human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility status, gender, and more. Evidence for the removal, curation and display of heads ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. Traditionally, this material has been associated with a Europe-wide 'head-cult', and used to support the idea of a unified Celtic culture in prehistory. This book demonstrates instead how headhunting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521877563
• ISBN13: 9780521877565
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.0"