Le projet franco-allemand "CELTIC GOLD. Fine metal work in the Western La Tène culture" : présentation et premiers résultats

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Production et circulation de l’or au Second âge du Fer en Europe occidentale et centrale : une synthèse des résultats du programme Celtic Gold

Production et circulation de l’or à l'âge du Fer en Europe occidentale et centrale. Premier aperçu des résultats du programme Celtic Gold

Through the successive Franco-German projects “West Hallstatt Gold” and “Celtic Gold”, it has been possible to study the production of precious metals during the Iron Age on the scale of Western and Central Europe. The inventory of these artefacts and their archaeological context is now almost complete, and a substantial part of them has been visually studied and analysed. Thanks to renewed technological and archaeometric approaches, we propose here a panorama of the major economic, technological and stylistic trends, making it possible to identify continuities and breaks in supply networks, goldsmithing techniques, uses and burial contexts of gold.Three main types of gold stocks have been …

The Petite Seine in the metal Ages, an obligatory route on the Tin Road

Interactions and exanges durant the protohistory