Vom Druidenstein zum Hunnenring

The Celts are mighty "in" these days. Historical novels and non-fiction books, fantasy films and the presentation of Celtic finds in large museums and opulent exhibitions have revived the memory of that unique European culture of the Iron Age. Their cultural stage of the Iron Age, emerging from Bronze Age roots around 800 B.C. and characterised by brilliant handicrafts, left behind a wealth of subtle traces. This book can lift the often dramaturgically exaggerated representations of the Celtic past of Central Europe in literature and films to a realistic level. And it repeatedly becomes apparent that the former reality was fantastic enough: the enormous achievements in the construction of the stone mountain fortifications alone required such a logistics and command hierarchy, which today.