=
×

Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Head To Head
Log In
Register
The Modern Antiquarian Forum »
The Celts BBC2
Log In to post a reply
14 messages
Topic View: Flat | Threaded
tjj
tjj
3606 posts

Re: The Celts BBC2
Oct 07, 2015, 23:12
thesweetcheat wrote:
A response piece:

http://www.historytoday.com/rachel-pope/celts-blood-iron-and-sacrifice


A very good response which (for me) added quite a bit of context to the programme. Needless to say I liked the references to women in prehistory ...

"And if they’re not migrating, I learn that Celts are fighting. And that they were all men; which is odd because in some regions, at some times, the archaeological record distinctly tells us that Early Iron Age society was really more to do with the power of women. Maybe the female rulers of the late Hallstatt period will be in the next episode. For now, I’m learning that the Celtic hordes were male, that the iron workers were male, and that the leaders were male. I always wonder when I encounter these utopian masculinist visions of my period, how these men reproduced ...."

Rachel Pope is Senior Lecturer in European Prehistory at the University of Liverpool - I wonder if she is expecting too much from a television programme which is not really aimed at students of archaeology, rather a wider audience with a more general interest.
In reply to:
Re: The Celts BBC2 (thesweetcheat)		 Replies:
Re: The Celts BBC2 (thesweetcheat)
Topic Outline:
The Modern Antiquarian Forum Index