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Ancient Celts and modern ethnicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. V. S. Megaw and
M. R. Megaw
J. V. S. Megaw
Affiliation:
School of Cultural Studies, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
M. R. Megaw
Affiliation:
School of Cultural Studies, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
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Abstract

In September 1994 the European Association of Archaeologists held its inaugural meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a sovereign nation formerly part of Yugoslavia. As was to be expected in such a place and at such a time, questions of ethnicity and identity were much in evidence. Here a classic case-study in defining an ancient European entity is explored from a fresh starting-point in contemporary Australia; it was first developed in the Ljubljana session on ‘Contemporary myth of the past’.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 267 , March 1996, pp. 175 - 181
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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