Book Description
An alternative history of Roman Britain
Author : Iain Ferris
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 144561586X
An alternative history of Roman Britain
Author : Lindsay Allason-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521860121
Helps the student understand the numerous artefacts from Roman Britain and what they reveal about life in the province.
Author : Martin Pitts
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2019-08-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 9048543878
Archaeologists working in northwest Europe have long remarked on the sheer quantity and standardisation of objects unearthed from the Roman period, especially compared with earlier eras. What was the historical significance of this boom in standardised objects? With a wide and ever-changing spectrum of innovative objects and styles to choose from, to what extent did the choices made by people in the past really matter? To answer these questions, this book sheds new light on the make-up of late Iron Age and early Roman 'objectscapes', through an examination of the circulation and selections of thousands of standardised pots, brooches, and other objects, with emphasis on funerary repertoires, c. 100 bc-ad 100. Breaking with the national frameworks that inform artefact research in much 'provincial' Roman archaeology, the book tests the idea that marked increases in the movement of people and objects fostered pan-regional culture(s) and transformed societies. Using a rich database of cemeteries and settlements spanning a swathe of northwest Europe, including southern Britannia, Gallia Belgica, and Germania Inferior, the study extensively applies multivariate statistics (such as Correspondence Analysis) to examine the roles of objects in an ever-changing and richly complex cultural milieu.
Author : Robin Fleming
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0812252446
"An examination of the transformations in lowland Britain's material culture over the course of the long fifth century CE during the late Roman regime and its end"--
Author : Iain M. Ferris
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
"Objects made of metal, glass, baked clay, jet and shale, bone, antler and ivory, and of stone - the 'small finds' discovered on archaeological sites - help us weave a narrative about aspects of life in Roman Britain. They hold the essence of the past. This book is about objects from Roman Britain and about how they were used. It is also about ideas sometimes encapsulated within those objects and in certain artistic images from the province. Some objects were produced specifically for the purpose of carrying symbolic meaning while some otherwise functional objects sometimes had symbolism thrust upon them. Iain Ferris explores the sophisticated consumer culture of the Roman world. Finds or objects are used in this book to write an alternative history of Roman Britain in the form of a series of narrative snapshots of the past at certain locations and at certain times."--Publisher's description.
Author : Adam Parker
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1785708821
This second volume in the new TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology series seeks to push the research agendas of materiality and lived experience further into the study of Roman magic, a field that has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. Building on the pioneering studies in Boschung and Bremmer's (2015) Materiality of Magic, the editors of the present volume have collected contributions that showcase the value of richly-detailed, context-specific explorations of the magical practices of the Roman world. By concentrating primarily on the Imperial period and the western provinces, the various contributions demonstrate very clearly the exceptional range of influences and possibilities open to individuals who sought to use magical rituals to affect their lives in these specific contexts – something that would have been largely impossible in earlier periods of antiquity. Contributions are presented from a range of museum professionals, commercial archaeologists, university academics and postgraduate students, making a compelling case for strengthening lines of communication between these related areas of expertise.
Author : Denise Allen
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445690152
An illustrated history of the best Roman sites and artefacts to be found in Britain, for anyone wanting to discover the Roman past.
Author : Astrid Van Oyen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1785706799
The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s international contributors question the traditional dominance of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, whereby objects have come to stand for social phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in this volume examine what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent. In challenging the dominance of representation, and exploring themes such as the impact of standardisation and the role of material agency, Materialising Roman History is essential reading for anyone studying material culture from the Roman world (and beyond).
Author : Adam Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317633857
Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives of people in Roman Britain needs to be developed, not only for the study of the local population but also those coming into Britain from elsewhere in the Empire who developed distinctive colonial lives. This critical, biographical approach can be extended and applied to places, structures, and things which developed in these provincial contexts as they were used and experienced over time. This book uniquely combines the study of all of these elements to access the character of Roman Britain and the lives, experiences, and identities of people living there through four centuries of occupation. Drawing on the concept of the biography and using it as an analytical tool, author Adam Rogers situates the archaeological material of Roman Britain within the within the political, geographical, and temporal context of the Roman Empire. This study will be of interest to scholars of Roman archaeology, as well as those working in biographical themes, issues of colonialism, identity, ancient history, and classics.
Author : Matthew G. Knight
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789692490
How did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? This volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated.