The Cemetery Of Noviomagus And The Wealthy Burials Of The Municipal Elite

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The Cemetery of Noviomagus and the Wealthy Burials of the Municipal Elite

Author : Annelies Koster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789068291032
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cemetery of Noviomagus and the Wealthy Burials of the Municipal Elite written by Annelies Koster and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During excavations in the cemetery of the town of Noviomagus in Nijmegen-west archaeologists of the Radboud University of Nijmegen discovered the remains of a series of monumental burial complexes comprising walled enclosures and funerary monuments, and associated rich burials dating from the end of the 1st century AD. The aim of this publication is to establish whether these burials show influences from the Roman world and have cultural and religious connections with the Mediterranean, or whether they reflect indigenous traditions. Closely linked to this are questions concerning the status and ethnic background of the buried persons, for which the burial ritual, funerary customs and grave goods may provide clues. The high economic and social status of this group and its cultural and political alliance with Rome and the imperial family are evident from the monumental burial complexes and certain grave goods.

Materialising Roman Histories

Author : Astrid Van Oyen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785706772
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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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 402 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).

Roman Artefacts and Society

Author : Ellen Swift
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191087998
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Roman Artefacts and Society written by Ellen Swift and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artefacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history, and our understanding of the relationships that exist between artefacts and people. Based on extensive data collection and the close study of artefacts from museum collections and archives, the book examines the relationship between artefacts, everyday behaviour, and experience. The concept of 'affordances'-features of an artefact that make possible, and incline users towards, particular uses for functional artefacts-is an important one for the approach taken. This concept is carefully evaluated by considering affordances in relation to other sources of evidence, such as use-wear, archaeological context, the end-products resulting from artefact use, and experimental reconstruction. Artefact types explored in the case studies include locks and keys, pens, shears, glass vessels, dice, boxes, and finger-rings, using material mainly drawn from the north-western Roman provinces, with some material also from Roman Egypt. The book then considers how we can use artefacts to understand particular aspects of Roman behaviour and experience, including discrepant experiences according to factors such as age, social position, and left- or right-handedness, which are fostered through artefact design. The relationship between production and users of artefacts is also explored, investigating what particular production methods make possible in terms of user experience, and also examining production constraints that have unintended consequences for users. The book examines topics such as the perceived agency of objects, differences in social practice across the provinces, cultural change and development in daily practice, and the persistence of tradition and social convention. It shows that design intentions, everyday habits of use, and the constraints of production processes each contribute to the reproduction and transformation of material culture.

Material Approaches to Roman Magic

Author : Adam Parker
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785708821
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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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.

Writing and Power in the Roman World

Author : Hella Eckardt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418058
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Power in the Roman World written by Hella Eckardt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

The Origin of Roman London

Author : Lacey M. Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047579
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Roman London written by Lacey M. Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on both published and archived archaeological evidence, this copiously illustrated book revolutionises our understanding of early Roman London.

Gaulish

Author : Mullen, Alex
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
ISBN 13 : 8417358765
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Gaulish written by Mullen, Alex and published by Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is important in both individual and group identities. In understanding the Iron Age and Roman worlds and their developments, we must strive to incorporate an appreciation of the local languages and their communities. Unfortunately a key ancient language such as Gaulish is generally only studied by specialist linguists, and many classical scholars, for example, have little knowledge of it. We have written a text which is designed to reveal the complexity and importance of the Gaulish language to a wider audience.

Early Medieval Britain

Author : Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0521885949
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Early Medieval Britain written by Pam J. Crabtree and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.

Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000-1600)

Author :
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9789004465770
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000-1600) written by and published by Brill. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Eurasia. Introducing fresh comparative perspectives on practices and visions of community, it offers a thorough source-based examination of medieval communal life in its sociocultural complexity and diversity in Central and Southeast Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. As multi-layered social phenomena, communities constantly formed, restructured and negotiated internal allegiances, while sharing a topographic living space and joint notions of belonging. The volume challenges disciplinary paradigms and proposes an interdisciplinary set of low-threshold categories and tools for cross-cultural comparison of urban and rural communities in the Global Middle Ages.0Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Andre Gingrich, Karoly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Katerina Hornickova, Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian Kummeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.

The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology

Author : Helena Hamerow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199212147
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology written by Helena Hamerow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.

Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East

Author : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030811034
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East by : Paul Erdkamp

Download or read book Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East written by Paul Erdkamp and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa from the fourth millennium BCE up to the end of the first millennium CE. This book contributes to the multi-disciplinary debate between scholars working on climate and society from various backgrounds. The chronological boundaries of the book are set by the emergence of complex societies in the Neolithic on the one end and the rise of early-modern states in global political and economic exchange on the other. In order to stimulate comparison across the boundaries of modern periodization, this book ends with demography and climate change in early-modern and modern Italy, a society whose empirical data allows the kind of statistical analysis that is impossible for ancient societies. The book highlights the role of human agency, and the complex interactions between the natural environment and the socio-cultural, political, demographic, and economic infrastructure of any given society. It is intended for a wide audience of scholars and students in ancient economic history, specifically Rome and Late Antiquity.

The Archaeology of Death and Burial

Author : Mike Parker Pearson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750999039
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Death and Burial written by Mike Parker Pearson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn not only about the attitudes of prehistoric people to death and the afterlife, but also about their way of life, their social organisation and their view of the world. This ambitious book reviews the latest research in this huge and important field, and describes the sometimes controversial interpretations that have led to rapid advances in our understanding of life and death in the distant past. A unique overview and synthesis of one of the most revealing fields of research into the past, it covers archaeology's most breathtaking discoveries, from Tutankhamen to the Ice Man, and will find a keen market among archaeologists, historians and others who have a professional interest in, or general curiosity about, death and burial.

Ethnic Identity and Imperial Power

Author : Nico Roymans
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053567054
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Identity and Imperial Power written by Nico Roymans and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study explores the theme of Batavian ethnicity and ethnogenesis in the context of the Early Roman empire. Its starting point is the current view in the social and historical sciences of ethnicity as a culturally determined, subjective construct that is shaped through interaction with an ethnic 'other'. The study analyses literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources relating to the Batavian image and self-image against the backdrop of Batavian integration into the Roman world. The Batavians were intensively exploited by the Roman authorities for the recruitment of auxiliary soldiers, with the result that their society developed into a full-blown military community."--Jacket.

The Municipalities of the Roman Empire

Author : James Smith Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Municipalities of the Roman Empire written by James Smith Reid and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Health and Disease in Britain

Author : Margaret Cox
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781842173756
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book Health and Disease in Britain written by Margaret Cox and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traces the history of health and disease and the evidence for care and treatment through time in Britain using primary and secondary evidence. Chapters cover Palaeolithic times to the 20th century.

Bronze Vessels Two

Author : Annelies Koster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789071923234
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Bronze Vessels Two written by Annelies Koster and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Einzelfund - Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Gefässe.

Dress and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Moselle Region of the Roman Empire

Author : Ursula Rothe
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 : 9781407306155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Dress and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Moselle Region of the Roman Empire written by Ursula Rothe and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reivsed Phd thesis uses the large extant corpus of funerary art from the Rhine Moselle region, to examine and analyse the clothing depicted and to ask what they can tell us about cultural identity in this frontier region and how they can be used to explore concepts of Romanization.