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in 2019.The opening quote: 'The great arc of the Alps to the north, as much as one would expect to the contrary, seems to have been a negligible barrier to communication and trade' (Barfield 1971, 9) essentially captures the focus of the entire monograph.While it would seem that much has already been written about urbanism, trade and communication in the Iron Age (see, e.g.,