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From Bronze Age to Iron Age: Middle Europe, Italy, and the North and West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

C. F. C. Hawkes
C. F. C. Hawkes
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Professor of European Archaeology, Oxford
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This paper is intended as a sequel, reaching into the Early Iron Age, to the preceding one by Professor Childe on ‘The Final Bronze Age in the Near East and in Temperate Europe.’ When he and I were invited to prepare these papers first, as addresses to the Prehistoric Society's Conference in London in April 1948, we purposely agreed to do most of our work on them separately, he approaching the problem of the European Bronze—Iron Age transition from its Bronze Age end, and I from its Iron Age end. But now, through his kindness, I am writing with his paper in its final form before me; and I want therefore to begin by considering what he has written, in order to fit my contribution squarely into his. I shall then turn to Italy, and to its relations with Europe beyond the Alps and with Greece and the Orient, and so approach the Hallstatt question and the Final Bronze Ages of the North and West, upon which the Iron Age, in due time, supervened. I am most grateful to Childe for his approval to this course; and his paper is truly so important, that I cannot but make it the starting-point for mine.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 14 , 1948 , pp. 196 - 218
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page 196 note 1 Under the provisional title ‘Italy, Hallstatt, and the West and North’: see Archaeological News Letter, no. 2, May 1948, 11–13 Google Scholar.

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page 196 note 4 In Childe's Danubian system (Dawn, ch. VII, and The Danube in Prehistory), in which the numbering runs through from the Neolithic onwards, it is period IV.

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page 204 note 2 Associated with native bronzes typical of Northern period IV, for which see p. 215 below: Broholm, op. cit. III, 188–91 (M 42), figs.; Brøndsted, , Danmarks Oldtid, II, Bronzealderen (1939), 167–8, 190–1Google Scholar, with fig. 177, c.

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page 204 note 7 As Jacobsthal well insisted in his lecture ‘The European Face of Archaic Greece’ at Oxford in August 1948; he said much of these connexions, and will I hope soon publish more.

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page 211 note 3 ibid., Pl. XXIX, 2.

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page 214 note 4 I put it so because some were perhaps made in North-Adriatic regions outside Italy: one might say Italian or sub-Italian.’

page 215 note 1 He called it ‘Benacci III,’ but on this idiosyncrasy see p. 206 above.

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