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    "title": "Rural Settlement",
    "subtitle": "Relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age",
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    "description": "The majority of humanity have lived out their lives in a 'rural' context, and even in our increasingly urbanised world almost half of the global population still live in rural areas. In the European Iron Age, the vast mass of the population clearly lived in small hamlets and farmsteads, and this overarching 'rurality' is important for understanding these societies. While there has been a pronounced focus in recent archaeological research on patterns of centralisation and urbanisation, there is a need to reincorporate 'rural life' or rurality into these discussions of how people lived. <br />This book is a contribution to the study of rural life in Iron Age Europe, collating case studies extending from southern Spain to northern Scotland and from Denmark to the Balkans. Papers are grouped thematically to open up cross-regional comparisons, ranging across studies of buildings, farms - the basic unit of Iron Age life consisting of its inhabitants, its livestock and associated agricultural lands - to wider settlement patterns and land use strategies. The 29 papers in this volume discuss the disposition, form and organisation of rural settlements, as well as underlying social and economic networks, illustrating both the variability between regions, and also common themes in cultural, economic and social interactions. <br />This volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research, presenting new results for the Iron Age specialist as well as a wider audience interested in the rich tapestry of rural settlement in Europe.<br />Contents<br />Exploring rural settlement in Iron Age Europe - An introduction<br />Dave Cowley, Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez-G\u00f6tz, Tanja Romankiewicz & Holger Wendling<br />Beyond the site: settlement systems and territories<br />Regional settlement entities or terroirs in Late Iron Age northern France<br />Alexandra Cony<br />Regional aspects of landscape exploitation and settlement structure in Denmark in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age<br />Mads Runge<br />Iron Age settlement in mid-west Ireland<br />Katharina Becker<br />Recent research on the Arras Culture in its landscape setting<br />Peter Halkon<br />Settlement and landscape in the Iron Age of eastern Iberia<br />Ignasi Grau Mira<br />Approaching Late Iron Age rural landscapes: New ways of looking at the archaeological record in the southeast Iberian Peninsula<br />Leticia L\u00f3pez-Mond\u00e9jar<br />From hut to factory: models of rural occupation in the Lower Guadalquivir valley during the 1st millennium BC<br />Eduardo Ferrer-Albelda, Francisco Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda-Fern\u00e1ndez & Jos\u00e9 Luis Ramos-Soldado<br />Space and place in the Early Iron Age in eastern Burgundy<br />R\u00e9gis Labeaune<br />Settlement units and buildings<br />The chronology of wetland settlement and its impact on Iron Age settlement dynamics in southwest Scotland<br />Graeme Cavers & Anne Crone<br />Settlement nucleation and farmstead stabilisation in the Netherlands<br />Karen M. de Vries<br />Turf worlds: Towards understanding an understudied building material in rural Iron Age architecture - some thoughts in a Scottish context<br />Tanja Romankiewicz<br />The concept of 'house' and 'settlement' in the Iron Age of the middle Tisza region<br />P\u00e9ter F. Kov\u00e1cs<br />House or workshop? A case study of two pit-houses at the Iron Age settlement site of Micha?owice, Kazimierza Wielka county (Poland)<br />Jan Bulas, Micha? Kasi?ski & Gabriela Ju?wi?ska<br />Late Iron Age settlement in Hungary<br />K\u00e1roly Tank\u00f3 & L?rinc Tim\u00e1r<br />At the fringes of the La T\u00e8ne world - The Late Iron Age rural occupation of the Banat region, Romania<br />Andrei Georgescu<br />Late Iron Age rural settlements in southern Pannonia<br />Ivan Drni?<br />Meillionydd: a Late Bronze and Iron Age double ringwork enclosure in northwest Wales<br />Katharina M\u00f6ller & Raimund Karl<br />The changing patterns of La T\u00e8ne Farmsteads in Central and Western continental Europe<br />Angelika Mecking<br />Rural settlement patterns in urbanised Areas:...",
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