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Roman Finds

Author : Richard Hingley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785705032
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Roman Finds written by Richard Hingley and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 263 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.

50 Roman Finds

Author : John Pearce
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445686856
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book 50 Roman Finds written by John Pearce and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into the Portable Antiquities Scheme archives to explore 50 finds from Britain's Roman history.

50 Finds of Roman Coinage

Author : Andrew Brown
Publisher : 50 Finds
ISBN 13 : 9781445696331
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (963 download)

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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.

Roman Britain and Where to Find It

Author : Denise Allen
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445690152
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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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 447 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.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Author : Hella Eckardt
Publisher : Britannia Monograph
ISBN 13 : 9780907764489
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Bridge Over Troubled Water written by Hella Eckardt and published by Britannia Monograph. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Roman objects are discovered in rivers they are commonly interpreted as accidental losses or as rubbish deposits revealed by fluvial erosion; this is in contrast to prehistoric assemblages, which are often seen as ritual offerings. Our project challenges these assumptions by publishing for the first time an entire riverine artifact assemblage and comparing its composition to nearby excavated assemblages. The ca. 3,600 finds retrieved by two divers from the River Tees at Piercebridge are also related to the Roman bridges, settlement, and fort, and analyzed to better understand the people who used and deposited them.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain

Author : Martin Millett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191002526
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain written by Martin Millett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province. This volume introduces the history of research into the province and the cultural changes at the beginning and end of the Roman period. The majority of the chapters are thematic, dealing with issues relating to the people of the province, their identities and ways of life. Further chapters consider the characteristics of the province they lived in, such as the economy, and settlement patterns. This Handbook reflects the new approaches being developed in Roman archaeology, and demonstrates why the study of Roman Britain has become one of the most dynamic areas of archaeology. The book will be useful for academics and students interested in Roman Britain.

50 Finds From Manchester and Merseyside

Author : Vanessa Oakden
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445658569
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book 50 Finds From Manchester and Merseyside written by Vanessa Oakden and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

The Roman coins from Apulum

Author : Cristian Găzdac
Publisher : GAZDAC CRISTIAN
ISBN 13 : 6065430005
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The Roman coins from Apulum written by Cristian Găzdac and published by GAZDAC CRISTIAN. This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Journal of Numismatics

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Journal of Numismatics written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roman Realities

Author : Finley Hooper
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814315941
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Roman Realities written by Finley Hooper and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the major primary sources of Roman history, this book recalls the experiences of the ancient Romans through a thousand years of their history. Roman Realities recalls the experiences of the ancient Romans through a thousand years of their history, emphasizing the problems produced by their successes and the lessons to be learned from their failures. It is based on the major primary sources of Roman history, with illuminating paralells between ancient and modern times. As Finley Hooper says in his introduction, "Anyone concerned about present problems will profit from reading about how the Romans went about solving theirs--with the added advantage of knowing how it all turned out." Although scholars will find the events in this book familiar, they will not necessarily share its insights or agree with its interpretations. This is a book to read, enjoy--and argue about!

Warlords and Holy Men

Author : Alfred P. Smyth
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780748601004
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Warlords and Holy Men written by Alfred P. Smyth and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his work strongly on documentary and archaeological sources, Alfred Smyth covers traditional topics in a thoroughly unconventional manner.

The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions

Author : Tony Clunn
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611210089
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions written by Tony Clunn and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2009-09-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an ancient ambush that devastated Rome—and the modern-day hunt that finally revealed its location and its archaeological treasures. In 9 A.D., the seventeenth, eighteenth, & nineteenth Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully planned ambush led by Arminius—a Roman-trained German warrior adopted and subsequently knighted by the Romans, but determined to stop Rome’s advance east beyond the Rhine River. By the time it was over, some 25,000 men, women, and children were dead and the course of European history had been forever altered. “Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!” Emperor Augustus agonized aloud when he learned of the devastating loss. As decades passed, the location of the Varus defeat, one of the Western world’s most important battlefields, was lost to history. It remained so for two millennia. Fueled by an unshakable curiosity and burning interest in the story, a British Major named J. A. S. (Tony) Clunn delved into the nooks and crannies of times past. By sheer persistence and good luck, he turned the foundation of German national history on its ear. Convinced the running battle took place north of Osnabruck, Germany, Clunn set out to prove his point. His discovery of large numbers of Roman coins in the late 1980s, followed by a flood of thousands of other artifacts (including weapons and human remains), ended the mystery once and for all. Archaeologists and historians across the world agreed. Today, a state-of-the-art museum houses and interprets these priceless historical treasures on the very site Varus’s legions were lost. The Quest for the Lost Roman Legions is a masterful retelling of Clunn’s search to discover the Varus battlefield. His well-paced and vivid writing style makes for a compelling read as he alternates between his incredible modern quest and the ancient tale of the Roman occupation of Germany—based upon actual finds from the battlefield—that ultimately ended so tragically in the peat bogs of Kalkriese.

The First Fossil Hunters

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691245606
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The First Fossil Hunters written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants—these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact—in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.

The Roman Object Revolution

Author : Martin Pitts
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048543878
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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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.

Landscapes and Artefacts

Author : Steven Ashley
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1905739990
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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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.

Local Economies?

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309780
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Local Economies? written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman economy was operated significantly above subsistence level, with production being stimulated by both taxation and trade. Some regions became wealthy on the basis of exporting low-value agricultural products across the Mediterranean. In contrast, it has usually been assumed that the high costs of land transport kept inland regions relatively poor. This volume challenges these assumptions by presenting new research on production and exchange within inland regions. The papers, supported by detailed bibliographic essays, range from Britain to Jordan. They reveal robust agricultural economies in many interior regions. Here, some wealth did come from high value products, which could defy transport costs. However, ceramics also indicate local exchange systems, capable of generating wealth without being integrated into inter-regional trading networks. The role of the State in generating production and exchange is visible, but often co-existed with local market systems. Contributors are Alyssa A. Bandow, Fanny Bessard, Michel Bonifay, Kim Bowes, Stefano Costa, Jeremy Evans, Elizabeth Fentress, Piroska Hárshegyi, Adam Izdebski, Luke Lavan, Tamara Lewit, Phil Mills, Katalin Ottományi, Peter Sarris, Emanuele Vaccaro, Agnès Vokaer, Mark Whittow and Andrea Zerbini.

The Use and reuse of stone circles

Author : Courtney Nimura
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785702467
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Use and reuse of stone circles written by Courtney Nimura and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of stone circles has long played a major role in British and Irish archaeology, and for Scotland most attention has been focused on the large monuments of Orkney and the Western Isles. Several decades of fieldwork have shown how these major structures are likely to be of early date and recognized that that smaller settings of monoliths had a more extended history. Many of the structures in Northern Britain were reused during the later Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the early medieval period. A series of problems demand further investigation including: when were the last stone circles built? How did they differ from earlier constructions? How were they related to henge monuments, especially those of Bronze Age date? How frequently were these places reused, and did this secondary activity change the character of those sites? This major new assessment first presents the results of fieldwork undertaken at the Scottish recumbent stone circle of Hillhead; the stone circles of Waulkmill and Croftmoraig, the stone circle and henge at Hill of Tuach at Kintore; and the small ring cairn at Laikenbuie in Inverness-shire. Part 2 brings together the results of these five projects and puts forward a chronology for the construction and primary use of stone circles, particularly the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age examples. It considers the reuse of stone circles, long after they were built, and discusses four neighboring stone circles in Aberdeenshire which display both similarities and contrasts in their architecture, use of raw materials, associated artefacts and structural sequences. Finally, a reassessment and reinterpretation of Croftmoraig and its sequence is presented: the new interpretation drawing attention to ways of thinking about these monuments which have still to fulfill their potential.