Abstrakt
Since the beginnings of research into the Central European Iron Age, interactions of the region with the Mediterranean played an important role in the interpretation of various archaeological phenomena but also and importantly as narrative elements. However, they rarely became a subject of study in their own right.
The present volume investigates the contacts between Central Europe and the Mediterranean in the 4th-1st centuries BC based on the complex analysis and contextualisation of all the available written and more importantly archaeological sources. The core of the book is the analysis of Mediterranean objects imported to Central Europe (Bohemia, Bavaria, Moravia, Lower Austria; Western Slovakia) in the 3rd-1st century BC.
The issue of cultural influence and technological and other borrowings is discussed as well. Not only does it bring new information on the topic itself but it also sheds new light on various aspects of the Central European Late Iron Age archaeology.