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Author : Iain Ferris
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144561586X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Roman Britain Through its Objects written by Iain Ferris and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative history of Roman Britain
Author : Lindsay Allason-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521860121
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Artefacts in Roman Britain written by Lindsay Allason-Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9048543878
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)
Download or read book The Roman Object Revolution written by Martin Pitts and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0812252446
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE written by Robin Fleming and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Roman Britain Through Its Objects written by Iain M. Ferris and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317633857
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Roman Britain written by Adam Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andrew Brown
Publisher : 50 Finds
ISBN 13 : 9781445696331
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (963 download)
Download or read book 50 Finds of Roman Coinage written by Andrew Brown and published by 50 Finds. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at some of the fascinating examples of Roman coinage recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
Author : Adam Parker
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785708821
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Material Approaches to Roman Magic written by Adam Parker and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Astrid Van Oyen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785706799
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Materialising Roman Histories written by Astrid Van Oyen and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Denise Allen
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445690152
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Roman Britain and Where to Find It written by Denise Allen and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the best Roman sites and artefacts to be found in Britain, for anyone wanting to discover the Roman past.
Author : Guy de la Bédoyère
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300214030
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Real Lives of Roman Britain written by Guy de la Bédoyère and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear sense of individual lives. This book is the first to infuse the story of Britannia with a beating heart, the first to describe in detail who its inhabitants were and their place in our history. A lifelong specialist in Romano-British history, Guy de la Bédoyère is the first to recover the period exclusively as a human experience. He focuses not on military campaigns and imperial politics but on individual, personal stories. Roman Britain is revealed as a place where the ambitious scramble for power and prestige, the devout seek solace and security through religion, men and women eke out existences in a provincial frontier land. De la Bédoyère introduces Fortunata the slave girl, Emeritus the frustrated centurion, the grieving father Quintus Corellius Fortis, and the brilliant metal worker Boduogenus, among numerous others. Through a wide array of records and artifacts, the author introduces the colorful cast of immigrants who arrived during the Roman era while offering an unusual glimpse of indigenous Britons, until now nearly invisible in histories of Roman Britain.
Author : Alexander T. Smith
Publisher : Britannia Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780907764465
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (644 download)
Download or read book New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain written by Alexander T. Smith and published by Britannia Monographs. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses upon the people of rural Roman Britain - how they looked, lived, interacted with the material and spiritual worlds surrounding them, and also how they died, and what their physical remains can tell us. Analyses indicate a geographically and socially diverse society, influenced by pre-existing cultural traditions and varying degrees of social connectivity. Incorporation into the Roman empire certainly brought with it a great deal of social change, though contrary to many previous accounts depicting bucolic scenes of villa-life, it would appear that this change was largely to the detriment of many of those living in the countryside.
Author : Matthew G. Knight
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789692490
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Objects of the Past in the Past: Investigating the Significance of Earlier Artefacts in Later Contexts written by Matthew G. Knight and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hella Eckardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199693986
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Objects and Identities written by Hella Eckardt and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Rome's northern provinces through the portable artefacts people used and left behind. Objects are crucial to our understanding of the past, and can be used to explore interlinking aspects of identity. For example, can we identify incomers? How are exotic materials (such as amber and ivory) and objects depicting 'the exotic' (e.g. Africans) consumed? Do regional styles exist below the homogenizing influence of Roman trade? How do all these aspects of identity interact with others, such as status, gender, and age? In this innovative study, the author combines theoretical awareness and a willingness to engage with questions of social and cultural identity with a thorough investigation into the well-published but underused material culture of Rome's northern provinces. Pottery and coins, the dominant categories of many other studies, have here been largely excluded in favour of small portable objects such as items of personal adornment, amulets, and writing equipment. The case studies included were chosen because they relate to specific, often interlinking aspects of identity such as provincial, elite, regional, or religious identity. Their meaning is explored in their own right and in depth, and in careful examination of their contexts. It is hoped that these case studies will be of use to archaeologists working in other periods, and indeed to students of material culture generally by making a small contribution to a growing corpus of academic and popular books that develop interpretative, historical narratives from selected objects.
Author : Rob Collins
Publisher : Pen and Sword Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 1473886449
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Living on the Edge of Empire written by Rob Collins and published by Pen and Sword Archaeology. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beautiful . . . an essential book for anyone with an interest in the material culture of the Roman frontier in its wider context.” —Current Archaeology Dr. Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian’s Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeology of a Roman frontier. This highly illustrated volume showcases the artifacts recovered from archaeological investigations along Hadrian’s Wall in order to examine the daily lives of those living along the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire. Presented by theme, no other book offers such a diverse and thorough range of the rich material culture of the Wall. The accompanying text provides an ethnographic perspective, guiding us through the everyday lives of the people of frontier communities, from the Commanding Officer to the local farmer. This holistic view allows us an insight into the homes and communities, how people dressed, what they ate and drank, their religions and beliefs, domestic and military forms of security, and how they conducted their business and pleasure. “With so many of the objects described and set in context in this fine book, it gives no more than a brief bright flash of lives once led, and yet provides such a spark for the imagination.” —Hexham Local History Society Newsletter
Author : Steven Ashley
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1905739990
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Landscapes and Artefacts written by Steven Ashley and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168385
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book 1177 B.C. written by Eric H. Cline and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages," Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries. A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age—and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece.
