“Golasecca: Of Trade and Men in the Iron Age” at the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale

SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE.- The Celts’ trading partners in the early Iron Age were traditionally the Etruscans and the Greeks. Yet studies carried out in northern Italy since the 1970s demonstrate the dynamism of the peripheral communities which have proved to be significant intermediaries in the trade between temperate Europe and the Mediterranean, especially the “Golasecca culture”. This exhibition aims to show the specific features of this culture within the communities of the Alpine arch. The archaeological reassessment has been made possible by [...]