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    Celts, Romans and the Coligny calendar

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    Swift, C. (2002) 'Celts, Romans and the Coligny calendar', in Carruthers, M., van Driel-Murray, C., Gardner, A., Lucas, J., Revell, L. & Swift, E. (eds), TRAC 2001: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Glasgow, 2001, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 83-95, available: https://doi.org/10.16995/TRAC2001_83_95
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    2002
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    Swift, Catherine
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    Swift, C. (2002) 'Celts, Romans and the Coligny calendar', in Carruthers, M., van Driel-Murray, C., Gardner, A., Lucas, J., Revell, L. & Swift, E. (eds), TRAC 2001: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Glasgow, 2001, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 83-95, available: https://doi.org/10.16995/TRAC2001_83_95
    Abstract
    It is hard for those who have them to admire the rapidly developing system of shortterm academic contracts but one advantage for the scholar in such a situation is that they can facilitate the development of a wider overview of a number of cognate fields. Through an analysis of the dating and language of the Coligny calendar, I seek to explore the theoretical question of the value or otherwise of using sources which are both chronologically and geographically Lmrelated. This is a practice which, while not unknown in Roman archaeology, has been endemic in Celtic studies. It is an approach for which Celtic archaeology has been criticised by many - people do, after all, occasionally feast, boast, drink, fight and chop off heads without necessarily being ethnically or even culturally related. This fundamental reality, allied perhaps to the almost complete omission of the word 'Celt' from Barry Cunliffe's formative text-book on the insular iron age (1974), has led to the situation that, in the early years of the third millennium, a climate of opinion which is antagonistic to the notion of a pan-European Celtic culture appears dominant in British and Irish archaeology. With increasing vehemence, scholars such as Timothy Champion (1982, 1996), Malcolm Chapman (1992), John Waddell (1991, 1995), John Collis (1996), Simon James (1999) and Barra 6 Dormabhain (2000) have argued that the concept of 'Celticity' is one formed in academic circles from the eighteenth century on; that there is nO evidence for a 'Celtic' invasion of Britain or Ireland from the Continent and that continuity from the late Bronze Age, rather than innovation introduced from abroad is the distinguishing feature of insular Iron Age cultures. It is noteworthy that these criticisms are all directed towards the inappropriateness of the Celtic model in relation to the Iron age. This ignores the basic fact that the main rationale for the model, the evidence of language, belongs to the period of the Roman empire and to the early medieval literatures of Ireland and Wales. The Coligny calendar demonstrates the existence of closely related words in Gaul during the period of Roman occupation and in Ireland in the eighth century AD. This poses fundamental questions of in terpretation for those who seek to understand the relationships between the countries of north-western Europe in the first millennium after Christ.
    Keywords
    Celts
    Romans
    Coligny Calendar
    Language (ISO 639-3)
    eng
    Publisher
    Oxbow Books
    Rights
    Open Access Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 Deed
    License URI
    https://traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/3797/
    DOI
    10.16995/TRAC2001_83_95
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10395/1618
    ISBN
    9781842170755
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