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Thomas Charles-Edwards is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Corpus
Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of Early Irish and Welsh Kinship (Oxford,
1993)
John Collis is Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory,
University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the Iron Age in Europe, and
his books include The European Iron Age (1984), and Oppida, earliest towns north
of the Alps (1984). His main field project is investigating the changes in settlement
pattern and social and economic organization in central France.
Jeffrey L. Davies is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of History,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His publications include Conquest, Co-existence
and Change (1991); Excavations at Segontium (Caernarfon) Roman Ford, 1975-
(1993); and Cardiganshire County History Vol. I: From the earliest times to the com-
ing of the Normans.
Sioned Davies is a lecturer in the Department of Welsh, University of Wales College
of Cardiff. Her works include The Four Branches of the Mabinogi (1993) and a
volume in Welsh on the art of the medieval story-teller (in press). She has pub-
lished many articles on the Mabinogion, especially on issues relating to orality and
literacy.D. Ellis Evans is Jesus Professor of Celtic and Professorial Fellow of Jesus College,
Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Foreign Honorary Member of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Gaulish
Personal Names, A Study of some Continental Celtic Formations (1967), and
numerous articles on Continental Celtic and early Insular Celtic. He co-edited the
Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, and is now Chief Editor of Studio Celtica.Otto-Herman Frey is Professor of Pre- and Protohistory at the University of
Marburg/Lahn. His works include several papers on the pre-Roman Iron Age, espe-
cially in central and southern Europe, and he was co-editor of the Catalogue of the
Venice Exhibition, The Celts.Alex Gibson is Projects Manager with the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. He
is author of Neolithic and Bronze Age Pottery, and co-author of Prehistoric Pottery
for the Archaeologist.Miranda J. Green is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Gwent College of Higher
Education (a University of Wales Associate College), and she also lectures in Celtic
Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at
the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth. Her publications include The Gods of the Celts (1986); Symbol and
Image in Celtic Religious Art (1989); Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend (1992);
Animals in Celtic Life and Myth (1992); and Celtic Myths (1993). A new book on
Celtic goddesses is in press.XVI