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Exploring Celtic Origins: New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics (The Celtic Studies Publications) Paperback – Illustrated, November 23, 2020

by Barry Cunliffe (Editor), John T. Koch (Editor)

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Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge as Celts and speakers of Celtic languages documented in the Iron Age and later times. Led by Sir Barry Cunliffe and John Koch, the contributors present multidisciplinary chapters in a lively user-friendly style, aimed at accessibility for workers in the other fields, as well as general readers. The collection stands as a pause to reflect on ways forward at the moment of intellectual history when the genome-wide sequencing of ancient DNA (a.k.a. ‘the archaeogenetic revolution’) has suddenly changed everything in the study of later European prehistory. How do we deal with what appears to be an irreversible breach in the barrier between science and the humanities? Exploring Celtic Origins includes colour maps and illustrations and annotated Further Reading for all chapters.

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"This is a complex, important book […] the volume is laudable in setting out some clear hypotheses that can be explored in further research."
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Barry Cunliffe was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. He has worked on many of the iconic British excavations including Fishbourne Roman Palace, Danebury Hillfort and Hengistbury Head. He is an authority on the Iron Age and the Celts, and the author of many scholarly and popular publications including The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe, Britain Begins, and The Celts, A Very Short Introduction.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxbow Books; Reprint edition (November 23, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1789255503
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1789255508
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.25 x 9.75 inches

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Outstanding interdisciplinary report presents new insights into Celtic origins. Well-written. Integrates findings from archaeology, genetics (DNA, Ancient DNA) and linguistics.

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This book is well written, although not always an easy read, given the complexity of the subject matter. I have been fascinated with the origins of the “Celts” and specifically the Celtic Languages ever since I read “In Search of the Indo-Europeans “ by James Mallory over 30 years ago.

The traditional view of the origin of the Celts in Middle Europe during the Iron Age, following expansion from an Indo-European Homeland on the Steppe, was challenged by Colin Renfrew, who pointed to an earlier IE Homeland in Anatolia and the theory of “Celtic from the West” by Cunliffe and Koch, which envisaged an origin of the the early Celtic language in Iberia and diffusion along the Atlantic Facade.

Since 2015 results from Ancient DNA appear to refute these theories and confirm the traditional model. Or do they? The reality is possibly even more complex. It is a fast-moving field and more data may swing the pendulum again.

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Good reading, bad binding

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2023

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The content of the book is very interesting, however the edition is horrible. I just opened the book once and the pages were falling apart. The binding wasn't binding...
Besides, I'm not very sure that the book was brand new. The corners looked bumped and there were a couple of stains in the front cover.

James Honeychuck

The best yet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2019

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It would be unfair to say that this is the best in the four-volume series Celtic from the West, because after all, investigating where Celtic language and culture came from has been a work in progress for these scholars. And this volume doesn’t carry the title Celtic from the West, because the original premise that Celtic language and culture spread from the Atlantic coast has been largely invalidated by ancient DNA findings.

But these researchers have not thrown in the towel. Instead they have taken the new findings on board and produced this new book which is outstanding in several respects — as a summary of what is known about the Celts and their languages; as an interpretation of the new DNA findings (wonderful essay by Marina Silva et al.); and as a thought-provoking go at trying to merge the two competing theories about the origin of the Indo-European languages (steppe/kurgan vs. Anatolian hypotheses). I always suspect that composite answers are most likely to be right.

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