Iron Age Quotes

“Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today”
― Gillian Hovell, 'Visiting the Past'

“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors...Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story, her-story……”
― Thomas Jerome Baker, Boudicca: Her Story

“Perhaps the Romans were right to be wary of the formidable females of Britain -wise women, prophetesses, priestesses, Ladies, Queens; we'll never capture exactly how they saw themselves and how their communities saw them, but they appear charismatic, formidable, powerful even in death.”
― Alice Roberts, Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials

“Homo sapiens have explored many ages: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and, as of late, the Industrial Age, of which we have only tried for a couple hundred years. Before we seemingly dive headfirst into a Digital, Automated or Artificial Age, we are in desperate need of an Age of Reflection.”
― Freequill, What's Going On? How Can We Help?: The consequences of capitalism and actionable steps towards a healthy and sustainable future

“Neither did the Iron Age period end due to the lack of iron, nor will the age of hydrocarbons end due to the lack of hydrocarbons. The reason lies in the development of human civilization because new knowledge leads mankind to a higher level.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“The recognition of the symbolic qualities of enclosure has been significant in re-aligning perceptions of social relations and cultural change in Iron Age societies. Recent work has played down the practical defensive functions of hillforts and stressed their social implications... Hillforts as well as containing settlements, may well have fulfilled social roles not dissimilar to those claimed for stone circles and henges in Neolithic times.”
― Ian Armit, Scotland After the Ice Age: Environment, Archaeology and History 8000 BC - AD 1000