The Celtic community of the Heuneburg: An Energetics Approach to Their Building Activity between 600 B.C. and 540 B.C.
Author(s): François Remise
Year: 2016
Summary
During the first Iron Age, between 600 B.C. and 540 B.C., the ruling elite of the Celtic community at Heuneburg in Southern Germany erected monumental buildings, mainly mud-brick fortifications and funeral mounds. The costs and efforts involved in the construction of these buildings have been estimated using the science of energetics. This study analyses the energy effort involved in the construction, preferentially on the basis of energy values which would have applied in the historical and social context, and using standard values only when no information allowing a more appropriate choice is available. Drawing upon previous experimental works in the field this study analyses the construction workflows in order to identify the most relevant time values for each part of the projects. Finally, this study offers a model of the labor and sociopolitical organization of this society during this period.
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The Celtic community of the Heuneburg: An Energetics Approach to Their Building Activity between 600 B.C. and 540 B.C.. François Remise. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 402921)
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Europe
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min long: -11.074; min lat: 37.44 ; max long: 50.098; max lat: 70.845 ;