Bridging the gap at La Téne

Some thirty years ago, I took part in the Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität Basel's traditional field trip to La Tène. We discussed the various interpretations put forward for a site that had given its name to the later Iron Age in Europe: bridges, toll, battle, fort, refugium, accident, votive deposit, sanctuary. We berated the methods of investigation of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: they could not bridge the gap between what was found and what La Tène had come to mean in the ensuing century. Thirty years on, things have changed

Ancient history · Archaeology · Battle · Bridge (graph theory) · Bridging (networking) · Ethnology · Toll · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · History · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts

• Of Human Remains and Weapons in the Neighbourhood of London’

  R J Schulting, R Bradley•Archaeological Journal•2013

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• The Finds From La Tène in the British Museum

  Open Access•A P Fitzpatrick, Andrew Fitzpatrick•The Antiquaries Journal•2018

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