Celts: Origins and RE-Inventions by John Collis

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A new look at Britain’s Celtic heritage.

We use the word Celtic fast and loose, it evokes something mythical and romantic about our past, but what precisely does it mean? And why do people believe there were Celts in Britain and what relationship do they have to the ancient Celts? John Collis focuses particularly on how they were re–invented in the sixteenth and later centuries. He argues that this legacy of mistaken interpretations still affects the way we understand the ancient sources and archaeological evidence.

John Collis is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He is the leading British authority on the European Iron Age.

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