It's actually not a bad logic. What he means is that we are still studying the views of biased greco-roman historians at school, when recent archeology already pretty much debunked 75% of the bullshit they came up with. It was the same with Persians/Parthians a dozen decades ago (our great great grandfathers had pretty cliche views of these empires), except it was easier to uncover their civilizations due to more favorable conditions (climate and culture dynamics allowed for preservation).
ITT: Barbarian propaganda
But really, can you tell me about any sources that could be a good intro for an ignorant like me on recent archeology?
Anyway, my interest in this game is picked. I'll follow TWC and the announcements more closely and might as well reinstall Rome by mid-year to warm up.
For archeology overall :
http://www.britisharchaeology.org/ ,
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/ ... Its easy to come by on google. For books and stuff, I don't know much that is English. Mostly Indian and French.
On the celtic/germanic:
If you just want to know simple cultural stuff (craftsmanship, religion, law system...), a few google research will give you pretty much all the internet has to offer. There are some good books, but I only know french ones. I'm pretty sure there exist a tons of English archeology journals, shouldn't be hard to come by.
If you are interested in their architecture :
It's pretty hard to find. There's not much mainstream book or vulgarization articles, and it's even harder if you don't know how to read either french, german, or spanish (Gauls, german, Iberians).
Since it's very, very recent stuff (because of the new shiny lasers and stuff) it's mostly thesis and professional archeological articles. Most of the vulgarization you'll find is already outdated. It goes pretty fast right now.
I'm lucky to live in Canada right now, where they forced me to learn both English and French. So if you do understand french, I can give you a few good sources.
The best thing would be to have access to an online archeological thesis repository with links to all the articles on a given subject. The kind of thing you have access to in university network...
However
www.europabarbarorum.com is a pretty good start, because they made extensive research (I know their lead historian), and it's a direct application into video games. They've put a lot of content and sources on their website, it's worth a visit. And Europa is overall, the most popular mod, and the most historically accurate.
You can go on their forums at total war.org and ask them where they got all their archeological informations. It's most likely to be in english.
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?235-Europa-Barbarorum-II
They are making a Europa Barbarorum II for Medieval 2 Total War if anyone's interested.