The Celts

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Since its first publication, The Celts has been widely acclaimed as a major pioneering study. Using the evidence of history, archaeology and linguistics it portrays the rich variety of Celtic life, art and religion across the whole of barbarian Europe, from the Balkans in the east to France, Spain, Ireland and Great Britain in the west.

T.G.E Powell was one of the most distinguished British archaeologists of his generation, and an outstanding scholar in the field of Celtic prehistory. He was Rankin lecturer and Head of the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology in the University of Liverpool.

'The exposition of the Celts' material way of life, their art, their insttutions, their attitude towards the supernatural, is masterly' - Times Literary Supplement