This volume contains fourteen studies providing new perspectives on and material concerning the Iron Age in temperate Europe. Contributors include: P S Wells (The La Tène Period in Germany) ; T Hjorungdal (The Early Iron Age in western Norway) ; E Hamilton (Was there ever a Roman Conquest?) ; J Hill (A contextual study of Iron Age societies and hillforts in southern Britain) ; C Cumberpatch (Production and society in the Later Iron Age of Bohemia anmd Moravia) ; H Parzinger (The begining of La Tène culture in central Europe) ; R Gebhard (The 'Celtic' oppidum of Manching and its exchange system) ; P Brun (Oppida and social 'compexification' in France) ; G Ferrell (New perspectives on the Iron Age of north-east England) ; P van den Broeke (Iron Age sea salt trade in the Lower Rhine area) ; M Köhler (Hillfort settlement in Hallstatt Thuringia) ; J Webster (Interpretation and the Celtic gods) ; R Hingley (The Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland) .