This paper is a plea for the rehabilitation of the concept of Romanisation in the discussion
about socio-cultural change resulting from the confrontation of (proto-) historical peoples …

This paper sets out to examine issues of continuity and change in the social hierarchies of
the peoples of the Gallic interior, between the late Iron Age and the early Roman period …

I would like to thank Michel Christol, John Creighton, Louise Revell and Peter Wells for their
stimulating comments on the two articles under discussion by Greg Woolf and myself. Since …

Archaeological dialogues are not always genteel affairs. I have been very fortunate in the
care with which the commentators have read my paper and the generosity with which they …

It is a rare opportunity to be invited to comment upon two papers at the same time: the
temptation is then to either search for common threads, or to directly compare them …

Both Greg Woolf and Jan Slofstra have written articles that consider the theoretical agendas
of archaeologists constructing narratives of the early Roman period. Then, both go on to …

Jan Slofstra and Greg Woolf have written very stimulating papers about the changing
character of societies, and especially of their elites, in Interior Gaul and on the Rhine frontier …

G. Woolf argues that the transformation of the aristocracies of Interior Gaul was not so much
caused by the conquest itself as by the fact that from that point in time these aristocracies …