The thirteen papers in this volume discuss theoretical and methodological questions in European prehistory, with a number of case studies taken from a wide range of areas and periods. Contributors include: M Rowlands (The ideology and politics of European Iron Age studies); K Kristiansen (The emergence of the European World System in the Bronze Age); J Collis (Reconstructing Iron Age Society); S Frankenstein (The Phoenicians in Iberia); P Brun (From Hallstatt to La T?ne in the perspective of the Medetirranean World Economy); L Pauli (Case Studies in Celtic archaeology); H Thrane (Centres of wealth in northern Europe); T Champion (Socio-economic development in eastern England); S Champion (Regional studies: a question of scale).