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Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Biglis, Caldicot & Llandough written by David M. Robinson and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (BAR 188, 1988)
Author : Malcolm Todd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998857
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Roman Britain written by Malcolm Todd and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain spans the period from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. Major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain Brings together specialists to provide an overview of recent debates about this period Exceptionally broad coverage, embracing political, economic, cultural and religious life Focuses on changes in Roman Britain from the first century BC to the fifth century AD Includes pioneering studies of the human population and animal resources of the island.
Author : Andrew Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131543508X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book An Archaeology of Identity written by Andrew Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries? Did they withdraw, defect, or go native? More than a question of military history, this is the starting point for Andrew Gardner’s incisive exploration of social identity in Roman Britain, in the Roman Empire, and in ancient society. Drawing on the sociological theories of Anthony Giddens and others, Gardner shapes an approach that focuses on the central role of practice in the creation and maintenance of identities—nationalist, gendered, class, and ethnic. This theory is then tested against the material remains of Roman soldiers in Britain to show how patterning of stratigraphy, architecture, and artifacts supports his theoretical construct. The result is a retelling of the story of late Roman Britain sharply at odds with the traditional text-driven histories and a theory of human action that offers much to current debates across the social sciences.
Author : Andrew Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315435195
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Agency Uncovered written by Andrew Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand it has been argued that previous generations of archaeologists, in explaining social change in terms of structural or environmental conditions, have lost sight of the 'real people' and reduced them to passive cultural pawns, on the other, introducing the concept of agency to counteract this can be said to perpetuate a modern, Western view of the autonomous individual who is free from social constraints. This book discusses the balance between these two opposites, using a range of archaeological and historical case studies, including European and Asian prehistory, classical Greece and Rome, the Inka and other Andean cultures. While focusing on the relevance of 'agency' theory to archaeological interpretation and using it to create more diverse and open-ended accounts of ancient cultures, the authors also address the contemporary political and ethical implications of what is essentially a debate about the definition of human nature.
Author : Helena Hamerow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1785704680
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain written by Helena Hamerow and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Cramp's influence on the archaeology of early Medieval Britain is nowhere more apparent than in these essays in her honour by her former students. Monastic sites, Lindisfarne and Whithorn, are the inspiration for Deirdre O'Sullivan's and Peter Hill's papers; Chris Loveluck discusses the implications of the findings from the newly-discovered settlement at Flixborough in Lincolnshire; Nancy Edwards describes the early monumental sculpture from St David's in South Wales; Martin Carver reviews the politics of monumental sculpture and monumentality; and Catherine Hills reassesses the significance of imported ivory found in graves. Richard Bailey, Christopher Morris and Derek Craig top and tail the book with tributes to Rosemary Cramp and a bibliography of her work.
Author : T. M. Charles-Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198217315
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Wales and the Britons, 350-1064 written by T. M. Charles-Edwards and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2013 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most detailed history of the Welsh from Late-Roman Britain to the eve of the Norman Conquest. Integrates the history of religion, language, and literature with the history of events.
Author : Gwyn Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1785707892
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book TRAC 2000 written by Gwyn Davies and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen papers on Roman archaeology from the 10th annual TRAC conference. Contents: Representing the Romans in the Museum of Scotland (David Clarke and Fraser Hunter); Representing Londinium (Francis Grew); Writing colonial conflict, acknowledging colonial weakness (Garrick Fincham); Identities in the late Roman army: material and textual perspectives (Andrew Gardner); Medicine culture and symbolism (Gwyn Davies); Animal iconographies: metaphor, meaning and identity Miranda Aldhouse Green); An archaeology of food: a case study from Roman Britain (Gillian Hawkes); Small finds: problems and possibilities (Kelly Spradley); æRomanisationÆ and the body (Gilly Carr); Infants, cemeteries and communities in the Roman provinces (John Pearce); Unpicking a myth: the infanticide of female and disabled infants in antiquity (Eleanor Scott); Playing dead (Rebecca Gowland).
Author : John R. Kenyon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000161072
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Cardiff written by John R. Kenyon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book acts as a stimulus to further debate and discussion about the archaeology and architecture of the medieval diocese of Llandaff. It presents work at Cardiff and Skenfrith castles and focuses on buildings at Caldicot and Raglan.
Author : Jeremy Knight
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445625431
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book South Wales From the Romans to the Normans written by Jeremy Knight and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knight uses recent archaeological and historical work to examine the emergence of Christianity, literacy and lordship in south Wales.
Author : Richard Hingley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1785705016
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Roman Finds written by Richard Hingley and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jane Kenney
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789256909
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book A Welsh Landscape through Time written by Jane Kenney and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy Island is a small island just off the west coast of Anglesey, North Wales, which is rich in archaeology of all periods. Between 2006 and 2010, archaeological excavations in advance of a major Welsh Government development site, Parc Cybi, enabled extensive study of the island’s past. Over 20 hectares were investigated, revealing a busy and complex archaeological landscape, which could be seen evolving from the Mesolithic period through to the present day. Major sites discovered include an Early Neolithic timber hall aligned on an adjacent chambered tomb and an Iron Age settlement, the development of which is traced by extensive dating and Bayesian analysis. A Bronze Age ceremonial complex, along with the Neolithic tomb, defined the cultural landscape for subsequent periods. A long cist cemetery of a type common on Anglesey proved, uncommonly, to be late Roman in date, while elusive Early Medieval settlement was indicated by corn dryers. This wealth of new information has revolutionised our understanding of how people have lived in, and transformed, the landscape of Holy Island. Many of the sites are also significant in a broader Welsh context and inform the understanding of similar sites across Britain and Ireland.
Author : Peter Guest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Iron Age & Roman Coins from Wales written by Peter Guest and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Orme
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019154289X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Saints of Cornwall written by Nicholas Orme and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornwall is unique among English counties, though similar to other Celtic lands, in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorated not only the major saints of Christendom, but also many minor 'Celtic' ones, unique to single churches. This book breaks new ground by considering them all, comprehensively and in detail. The introduction explains how the cults came into existence, and how they shed light on early Christianity in the county. It follows their history up to the Reformation, and shows how popular devotion to the saints lingered even in the eighteenth century. The main part of the book provides a history of every known religious cult in Cornwall from the sixth century AD to the Reformation, with relevant information about its later history down to the present day. Every known site is identified (church, chapel, altar, image, holy well, or other outdoor feature), and every written source is discussed (saint's Life, liturgical commemoration, and calendar festival). This is the first time that a complete inventory of cults has been produced for an area as large as an English county. The work also includes many saints venerated in Brittany, Wales and England, and makes copious references to all three countries. It provides a major resource in the fields of medieval Church history, Reformation studies, folklore, and Celtic studies, as well as the history of Cornwall.
Author : Stephen Rippon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191548022
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Medieval Village written by Stephen Rippon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The varied character of Britain's countryside provides communities with a strong sense of local identity. One of the most significant features of the landscape in Southern Britain is the way that its character differs from region to region, with compact villages in the Midlands contrasting with the sprawling hamlets of East Anglia and isolated farmsteads of Devon. Even more remarkable is the very 'English' feel of the landscape in southern Pembrokeshire, in the far south west of Wales. Hoskins described the English landscape as 'the richest historical record we possess', and in this volume Stephen Rippon explores the origins of regional variations in landscape character, arguing that while some landscapes date back to the centuries either side of the Norman Conquest, other areas across southern Britain underwent a profound change around the 8th century AD.
Author : Francis M. Morris
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803276819
Total Pages : 1402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Venta Belgarum: Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester written by Francis M. Morris and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed study of the archaeology of Roman Winchester—Venta Belgarum, a major town in the south of the province of Britannia— and its development from the regional (civitas) capital of the Iron Age people, the Belgae, who inhabited much of what is now central and southern Hampshire.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686255
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Beacons in the Landscape written by Ian Brown and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all Britain's great archaeological monuments the Iron Age hillforts have arguably had the most profound impact on the landscape, if only because there are so many; yet we know very little about them. Were they recognised as being something special by those who created them or is the 'hillfort' purely an archaeologists' 'construct'? How were they constructed, who lived in them and to what uses were they put? This book, which is richly illustrated with photography of sites throughout England and Wales, addresses these and many other questions. After discussing the difficult issue of definition and the great excavations on which our knowledge is based, Ian Brown investigates in turn hillforts' origins, their architecture, and the role they played in Iron Age society. He also discusses the latest theories about their location, social significance and chronology. The book provides a valuable synthesis of the rich vein of research carried out in Britain on hillforts over the last thirty years. Hillforts' great variability poses many problems, and this book should help guide both the specialist and non-specialist alike though the complex literature. Furthermore, it has an important conservation objective. Land use in the modern era has not been kind to these monuments, with a significant number either disfigured or lost. Public consciousness of their importance needs raising if their management is to be improved and their future assured.
Author : David K. Leighton
Publisher : RCAHMW
ISBN 13 : 1871184126
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Mynydd Du and Fforest Fawr The Evolution of an Upland Landscape in South Wales written by David K. Leighton and published by RCAHMW. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wales is essentially an upland country where mountains and moorlands are the dominant components of the rural scene. The form and character of these landscapes are the consequence of a long history of change. Their distinctiveness is the result of complex interaction between the natural environment and human intervention. Based on the results of an archaeological field survey, this book attempts to unravel the many strands in the evolution of one particular upland area of South Wales, Mynydd Du and Fforest Fawr, part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The history of human activity in this area can be traced back to the earliest stages of climatic warming after the end of the last Ice Age when Mesolithic hunters followed migrating herds onto the less densely wooded high ground. Seasonal visiting was continued by early farmers until, from the beginning of the Bronze Age, more intensive patterns of land use emerged. After the end of the Roman military presence evidence for mainly seasonal occupation once again becomes widespread, during the Medieval and Post-Medieval periods. This was followed by the intensive exploitation of the area's mineral wealth during the Industrial Revolution and after, giving rise to some of the most dramatic features of the present-day landscape.
