Painted Warriors: The Art and Symbolism of Celtic Tribal Identity

The Celts did not decorate their world. They communicated through it — through tattooed skin and dyed textiles, through sword scabbards whose ornament announced region and rank, through hillforts positioned on ridgelines to command the horizon for generations. From 800 BCE to 100 CE, across a territory stretching from Ireland to the Carpathians, the communities of Iron Age Europe created one of th...