Celtic sophistication

[Bellerophon]

Why are romans almost always depicted wearing Lorica Segmentata?

Now there were many celts and other European Iron age men living in simple houses. Poor men and poor farmers on the country side usually live in poor small houses in most cultures. But houses weren't speciafically round. There were even larger settlements often with many varying types off walls (murus gallicus, murus dacicus,...) called oppida found over the whole of Iron age Europe, which could vary a lot in size though. The round houses thelselves did exist, put were far from the only types.

an typical example of a small oppida:


Look at the rectangular houses:

(detail from a manching oppidum model, see wikipedia for more info)

rectangular house:


Houses from Iron Age Denmark:


Link to a album on a Gallic house from modernday Belgium (Belgica):
http://home.scarlet.be/gallischehoeve/f ... e_041.html

And as you can see from this pictures from bibracte, you can see that not everything had to be made of wood:


Probably might be of interest as wel to show this inside of cuisine from a house of bibracte:



Some types of walls to illustrate they could build more than just huts:

a oppidum entrance:

(also from the manching oppidum model)

Over most of europe we find large and advanced settlements which are more than just some small round houses grouped together. Two examples:

Iberia:

dacia:


For information on the subject I've seen this book being recommended over at the Kelticos fora:
Towns, Villages and Countryside of Celtic Europe, 1989, by F.Audouze and O.Buchenschutz