caa a22 4500 386318808 CHVBK 20180307111618.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00075232 doi S0003598X00075232 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00075232 Ralston Ian Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 16-20 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ & CNRS UPR AO 178, Laboratoire d'Archéologie, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France Central Gaul at the Roman Conquest: conceptions and misconceptions [Elektronische Daten] [Ian Ralston] Several recent reconstructions of the social and economic development of non-Mediterranean Gaul after c. 200 BC have argued for the development of complex societies, characterized by the appearance of centralized political entities with urban - or at least urbanizing - communities. The emergence of such ‘Archaic States' is often considered as having been restricted to a broad zone running eastward from the Atlantic façade through the northern Massif Central to the Swiss plateau. Five certain such states are usually claimed: Bituriges cubi, Aedui, Arverni, Sequani, Helvetii; and three probable: Pictones, Lemovices and Lingones. The constitutents of this zone were originally recognized by Dr Daphne Nash (1976; 1978a; 1978b; 1981), and her view has since been adopted in Britain by Champion and his collaborators (1984), Bintliff (1984) and, most recently, Cunliffe (1988: figure 38). Essential to the formulation of this hypothesis was a wide-ranging consideration of three domains of protohistoric evidence on Gaul: literary, most conspicuously Julius Caesar's de Bello Gallico; numismatics; and the settlement record of the late La Tène and its more shadowy antecedents. Among more recent commentators, a primary interest in the ‘core-periphery' relationship (Cunliffe 1988; Rowlands et al. 1987) which existed between the Mediterranean world and Central Gaul is manifest. In a minimal view, this interaction may be envisaged in terms of the consequences of long-distance trade and subsequent military conquest spurring socio-political change. The unspoken by-product of this perspective is that differential development within non-Mediterranean Gaul is simplistically presented in terms of distance-decay from the Mediterranean littoral, with little attention being paid to the effects of physiographic diversity across this landmass. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988 Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/237(1988-12), 786-794 0003-598X 62:237<786 1988 62 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00075232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00075232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ralston Ian Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, 16-20 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ & CNRS UPR AO 178, Laboratoire d'Archéologie, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/237(1988-12), 786-794 0003-598X 62:237<786 1988 62 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge