What is it about?
The Glauberg is a so-called 'Celtic Princely Site' - a hillfort of the mid of the first millenium BC in southern Germany, Eastern France, Switzerland and Western Bohemia with an outstanding importance. The site is characterized not only by an impressive hillfort but also by 3 very rich 'Celtic' burials of warriers, priests, wise man, chiefs or whatever (maybe all of that combined?). The paper deals with the question if the site, the layout of an impressive ditch/rampart system all around the hill, the layout of the burials and also the site's vicinity with a number of other burial mounds can be seen as a religious place, or as a site with a ritual, sacral meaning as well as a settlement site as such.
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Why is it important?
Understanding the (sacral) meaning of a large, prestigeous settlement and burial site of the Eraly Iron Age ('Celtic' era) adds to our understanding of societies, their changing social meanings and the history of human landscape perception in general.
Perspectives
I hope that readers will benefit from our article and I hope that it will forster a discussion amongst experts and laymen about the (potential) meaning of sacredness in preliterate societies, tying to understand what was (or at least could have been) important to people some 2500 years ago.
Dr. Axel G. Posluschny
Research Centre of the Keltenwelt am Glauberg
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This page is a summary of: Space as the Stage: Understanding the Sacred Landscape Around the Early Celtic Hillfort of the Glauberg, Open Archaeology, January 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/opar-2019-0023.
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