A. General
Celtic archaeology (CA) investigates the material legacy of groups of the population from the Iron Age, mostly in southern and south-western Central Europe, in addition to the Germanic archaeology, which borders onto it to the north and north-east. This concerns the Hallstatt culture of the early and the La Tène culture of the late Iron Age. The equating of this archaeologically knowable cultures with the ethnicity of the Celts is not constantly and unambiguously possible; thus C…