Author : Richard Hattatt
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1782978038
Richard Hattatt's collection of brooches ranges from the Iron Age to the Middle Ages, though most were Roman and Romano-British. Between 1982 and 1989 he wrote four books illustrating all the brooches, and in the fourth book he included a visual catalogue which provides a quick guide to the types and dates. it is this visual index - with drawings of all 2000 brooches - that is reproduced.
Author : James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN :
When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history. This book provides the guidance and relevant historical context students need to see relics as evidence of long-past events and society. Artifacts from Ancient Rome is a unique social history that explores major aspects of daily life in a long-ago era via images of physical objects and historical information about these items. This book also affords "hands-on training" on how to approach primary sources. The author—a historian also trained as an archaeologist—begins by explaining the concept of using artifacts to understand and "see" the past and providing a primer for effectively analyzing artifacts. Entries on the artifacts follow, with each containing an introduction, a description of the artifact, an explanation of its significance, and a list of further sources of information. Readers of the book will not only gain a composite impression of daily life in ancient Rome through the study of artifacts from domestic life, religion, war, transportation, entertainment, and more, but will also learn how to best understand and analyze primary sources for learning.
Author : Dr Catherine Johns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135851115
This work provides a survey of the jewellery of Roman Britain. Fully illustrated and accessible to both the specialist and amateur enthusiast, it surveys the full range of personal ornament worn in Britain during the Roman period, the 1st to 4th centuries AD. It emphasizes the presence of two distinct cultural and artistic traditions, the classical element introduced by the Romans and the indigeneous Celtic background. The interaction of these traditions affected all aspects of Romano-British life and is illustrated in the jewellery.; The meaning and significance of personal ornament in a wide range of cultures is discussed, including such matters as symbolism and the display of wealth and status. The principal types of Romano-British jewellery are classified in detail, drawing attention to those which can be relatively closely dated. The coverage is not restricted to precious-metal objects, but includes jewellery made of base metals and materials such as bone, jet and glass. The final chapter is devoted to the techniques of manufacture, a subject which has become better understood in recent years as a result of scientific advances. The book should appeal to anyone who practices, teaches or studies Roman archaeology, together with all those with a professional or amateur interest in the history of jewellery and design.
Author : Steven Ashley
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1905739990
Andrew Rogerson is one of the most important and influential archaeologists currently working in East Anglia. This collection will be essential reading for those interested in the history and archaeology of Norfolk and Suffolk, in the interpretation of artefacts within their landscape contexts, and in the material culture of the Middle Ages.
Author : Richard Hattatt
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Brooches
ISBN : 9780946897179
Author : Richard Hingley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785705016
Studies on finds in Roman Britain and the Western Provinces have come to greater prominence in the literature of recent years. The quality of such work has also improved, and is now theoretically informed, and based on rich data-sets. Work on finds over the last decade or two has changed our understanding of the Roman era in profound ways, and yet despite such encouraging advances and such clear worth, there has to date, been little in the way of a dedicated forum for the presentation and evaluation of current approaches to the study of material culture. The conference at which these papers were initially presented has gone some way to redressing this, and these papers bring the very latest studies on Roman finds to a wider audience. Twenty papers are here presented covering various themes.
Author : Duncan Garrow
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1782978216
'Early Celtic art' - typified by the iconic shields, swords, torcs and chariot gear we can see in places such as the British Museum - has been studied in isolation from the rest of the evidence from the Iron Age. This book reintegrates the art with the archaeology, placing the finds in the context of our latest ideas about Iron Age and Romano-British society. The contributions move beyond the traditional concerns with artistic styles and continental links, to consider the material nature of objects, their social effects and their role in practices such as exchange and burial. The aesthetic impact of decorated metalwork, metal composition and manufacturing, dating and regional differences within Britain all receive coverage. The book gives us a new understanding of some of the most ornate and complex objects ever found in Britain, artefacts that condense and embody many histories.
Author : Matthew G. Knight
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 34,80 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.
Author : Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
"Essays written by leading scholars in the fields of Iron Age and Roman archaeology and material finds in Britain"--Bk. jacket.
Author : Timothy Lim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781841272122
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Palestine, recovered in Jordan, and largely edited by an international Christian team who prevented public access to unpublished manuscripts. Subsquently, the state of Israel, which had already purchased many of the Scrolls, has assumed responsibility for all of them. Most recently, one scroll editor has claimed copyright on his reconstruction, instigating a lawsuit and introducing serious implications for future Scrolls scholarship. This volume looks at international copyright and property rights as they affect archaeologists, editors and curators, but focuses on the issue of 'authorship' of the Scrolls, both published and unpublished, and the contributors include legal experts as well as many of the major figures in recent controversies, such as Hershel Shanks, John Strugnell, Geza Vermes and Emanuel Tov.
