The thirteen papers in this volume discuss theoretical and methodological questions in European prehistory, with a number of case studies taken from a wide range of areas and periods. Contributors include: M Rowlands (The ideology and politics of European Iron Age studies)

K Kristiansen (The emergence of the European World System in the Bronze Age)

J Collis (Reconstructing Iron Age Society)

S Frankenstein (The Phoenicians in Iberia)

P Brun (From Hallstatt to La T?ne in the perspective of the Medetirranean World Economy)

L Pauli (Case Studies in Celtic archaeology)

H Thrane (Centres of wealth in northern Europe)

T Champion (Socio-economic development in eastern England)

S Champion (Regional studies: a question of scale).