Roman Britain Through its Objects
Author: Iain Ferris
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2012-09-15
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 144561586X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn alternative history of Roman Britain
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Artefacts in Roman Britain
Author: Lindsay Allason-Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0521860121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHelps the student understand the numerous artefacts from Roman Britain and what they reveal about life in the province.
The Roman Object Revolution
Author: Martin Pitts
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2019-08-17
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9048543878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeologists 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.
Roman Britain Through Its Objects
Author: Iain M. Ferris
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 223
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Material Approaches to Roman Magic
Author: Adam Parker
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2018-04-30
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1785708821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Roman Britain and Where to Find It
Author: Denise Allen
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 1445690152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of the best Roman sites and artefacts to be found in Britain, for anyone wanting to discover the Roman past.
The Archaeology of Roman Britain
Author: Adam Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-10
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1317633857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWithin 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.
Materialising Roman Histories
Author: Astrid Van Oyen
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2017-09-30
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1785706799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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).
50 Finds of Roman Coinage
Author: Andrew Brown
Publisher: 50 Finds
Published: 2021-02-15
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781445696331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at some of the fascinating examples of Roman coinage recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain
Author: Alexander T. Smith
Publisher: Britannia Monographs
Published: 2018-07-30
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780907764465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
