The Politics of Identity

Late Iron Age Sanctuaries in the Rhineland

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4725807
AutoresManuel Fernández-Götz (0000-0003-2244-4924, University of Edinburgh, autor correspondente), Nico Roymans, N G A M Roymans (Amsterdam University of the Arts)
Ano2015
Volume801
Páginas18-32
Data de publicação2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the North Atlantic (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1935-1933 • E-ISSN: 1935-1933
EditoraJournal of the North Atlantic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3721/037.002.sp803
OpenAlexW2107507721
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas8

The Late Iron Age in the Rhineland area was a period of intensive social change, manifested in the development of a hierarchical system of sanctuaries. This paper discusses the social implications of this development, thereby emphasizing the role of regional and supraregional cult places as key-sites in the construction of politicized ethnic identities and associated power networks. Moreover, some interesting spatial and temporal patterns can be observed. In the Middle Rhine-Moselle area, the main sanctuaries and assembly places seem to be located in major fortified settlements (oppida) and often seem to have been the oldest elements within these sites. In the Lower Rhine region, there is no link between cult centers and fortified settlements, and at least one of the regional cult sites was situated in a forest

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