The Late Iron Age in Switzerland: a review of anthropological, funerary, and isotopic studies

Cooper, Christine; Milella, Marco; Lösch, Sandra (2023). The Late Iron Age in Switzerland: a review of anthropological, funerary, and isotopic studies. Archaeological and anthropological sciences, 15(9) Springer 10.1007/s12520-023-01838-w

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The Iron Age in continental Europe is a period of profound cultural and biological importance with heterogeneous trends through space and time. Regional overviews are therefore useful for better understanding the main cultural and biological patterns characterizing this period across the European regions. For the area of modern Switzerland, a rich archeological and anthropological record represents the Late Iron Age. However, no review of the main anthropological and funerary patterns for this period is available to date. Here we assess the available demographic, paleopathological, funerary, and isotopic data for the Late Iron Age in the Swiss territory, and summarize the cultural and biological patterns emerging from the available literature. Finally, we highlight a series of research avenues for future studies.

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