Talk:La Tène culture
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- Glastonbury and Irish late Iron age are certainly not typical La-Tene
- Description of torques- Waldalgesheim style no geometric elements, and Iwould like to see proof of Skythian influence??
- Whole article needs a re-write in my opinion --Yak 10:44, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- The Princess of Vix mentioned in "famous La Tène works"??? That she was a Celt and likely of La Tène culture, okay... but for chrisstakes the one thing that made the sepulture most remarkable was a Greek trade item. And what is the Battersea Shield, found in England, if recognized as a Celtic item, doing in a Dane museum, since Denmark always was under Germanic sway, never Celt (and yes, I know that where the Gundestrupp cauldron was found, but the Vix crater was a Greek item found in a Celtic tomb after all). --Svartalf 13:13, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- A good counterbalance to this point-of-view, and a re-thinking of Celtic reactions to Greek/Etruscan luxury objects, is in Constanze Witt, "Barbarians on the Greek periphery? origins of Celtic Art" --Wetman 02:05, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
- Maybe mention the La Tène sword found by Timeteam at the faked archaeological site in Wales. Will add it to external links in a week or so if no opposition. Khukri 11:58, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
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- The genuine La Tène sword planted at the fake "neo-druidic" spring at Llygadwy has plenty to tell us about the intellectual milieu of Neo-Druidism but nothing about La Tène, since it will never be known whence it came. --Wetman 06:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Further Reading
Isn't the "Further Reading" section a little heavy on the Celto-Skeptics? No Barry Cunliffe, Peter Berresford Ellis, or David Rankin, for examples? Stevo343 (talk) 14:53, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- I think you're probably seeing the influence of modern thought on the idea of a unified Celtic Europe. However, I have added Barry Cunliffe's The Ancient Celts to the further reading as it's recommended reading for the Iron Age Europe module in the archaeology degree at the University of Bradford. --86.169.1.144 (talk) 20:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
