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 T ne 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 T ne 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 K hler (Hillfort settlement in Hallstatt Thuringia); J Webster (Interpretation and the Celtic gods); R Hingley (The Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland) .