Contents : Introduction: the challenge of Iron Age identity / Simon Stoddart and Catalin Nicolae Popa -- Part I. Perspectives from south east Europe -- The coexistence and interference of the late iron age Transylvanian communities / Sa´ndor Berecki -- Identities of the early Iron Age in north-eastern Slovenia / Matija Crenar and DimitrijMleku -- Royal bodies, invisible victims: gender in the funerary record of late Iron Age and early Hellenistic Thrace / Bela Dimova -- Mediterranean wine and Dacian conviviality: ancient and modern myths and archaeological evidence / Mariana Egri -- Sarmizegetusa regia: the identity of a royal site? / Gelu Florea -- The ethnic construction of early Iron Age burials in Transylvania: Scythians, Agathyrsi or Thracians? / Alexandra Ghenghea -- Negotiating identities at the edge of the Roman Empire / Marko A. Jankovic -- Tracing ethnicity backwards: the case of the central Balkan tribes / Vladimir D. Mihajlovic -- The quest for group identity in late Iron Age Romania: statistical reconstruction of groups based on funerary evidence / Catalin Nicolae Popa -- Changing identities of the Iron Age communities of southern Pannonia / Yvonne Inall, Hrvoje Potrebica and Marko Dizdar -- Indigenous and colonist communities in the eastern Carpathianbasin at the beginning of the late Iron Age: the genesis of an eastern Celtic world / Aurel Rustoiu -- Ancient Thrace between the east and the west / Nikola Theodossiev -- "Hellenisation" and ethnicity in the continental Balkan Iron Age / Ivan Vranic -- Part II. Perspectives from the west -- Central places and the construction of collective identities in the middle Rhine-Moselle region / Manuel Ferna´ndez-Go¨tz -- Fingerprinting Iron Age communities in south-west Germany and an integrative theory of culture / Oliver Nakoinz -- Iron Age identities in central Europe: some initial approaches / Peter C. Ramsl -- Part III. Perspectives from the far west -- Negotiating identity on the edge of empire / Louisa Campbell -- Personal adornment in Iron Age Britain: the case of the missing glass beads / Elizabeth Foulds -- Part IV. Perspectives from the south west -- Spoiling for a fight: using spear typologies to identify aspects of warrior identity and fighting style in Iron Age south Italy -- Communal vs. individual: the role of identity in the burials of Peucetia / Olivia Kelley -- A view from the south (west): identity in Tyrrhenian central Italy / Simon Stoddart -- Part V. Synthesis -- Identity, integration, power relations and the study of the European Iron Age: implications from Serbia / Staa Babic -- The Celts: more myths and inventions / John Collis -- Material culture and identity: the problem of identifying Celts, Germans and Romans in late Iron Age Europe / Peter Wells -- Fingerprinting the European Iron Age: historical, cultural andintellectual perspectives on identity and ethnicity / Catalin Nicolae Popa and Simon Stoddart.