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Author | : Denise Allen |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445690152 |
An illustrated history of the best Roman sites and artefacts to be found in Britain, for anyone wanting to discover the Roman past.
Author | : John Pearce |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2020-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1445686856 |
Delving into the Portable Antiquities Scheme archives to explore 50 finds from Britain's Roman history.
Author | : Stefanie Hoss |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2016-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785702572 |
Small finds – the stuff of everyday life – offer archaeologists a fascinating glimpse into the material lives of the ancient Romans. These objects hold great promise for unravelling the ins and outs of daily life, especially for the social groups, activities, and regions for which few written sources exist. Focusing on amulets, brooches, socks, hobnails, figurines, needles, and other “mundane” artefacts, these 12 papers use small finds to reconstruct social lives and practices in the Roman Northwest provinces. Taking social life broadly, the various contributions offer insights into the everyday use of objects to express social identities, Roman religious practices in the provinces, and life in military communities. By integrating small finds from the Northwest provinces with material, iconographic, and textual evidence from the whole Roman empire, contributors seek to demystify Roman magic and Mithraic religion, discover the latest trends in ancient fashion (socks with sandals!), explore Roman interactions with Neolithic monuments, and explain unusual finds in unexpected places. Throughout, the authors strive to maintain a critical awareness of archaeological contexts and site formation processes to offer interpretations of past peoples and behaviors that most likely reflect the lived reality of the Romans. While the range of topics in this volume gives it wide appeal, scholars working with small finds, religion, dress, and life in the Northwest provinces will find it especially of interest. Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices grew out of a session at the 2014 Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference.
Author | : Andrew Brown |
Publisher | : 50 Finds |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2021-02-15 |
Genre | : Coins, Roman |
ISBN | : 9781445696331 |
Looking at some of the fascinating examples of Roman coinage recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
Author | : Richard Hingley |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2007-04-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785705016 |
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 | : Ellen Swift |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Material culture |
ISBN | : 0198785267 |
In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artifacts 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 behavior, and experience. The concept of "affordances"--features of an artefact that make possible, and incline users towards, particular uses for functional artifacts--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 artifact use, and experimental reconstruction. Artifact 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 behavior and experience, including discrepant experiences according to factors such as age, social position, and left- or right-handedness, which are fostered through artifact design. The relationship between production and users of artifacts 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.
Author | : Iain Ferris |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2012-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144561586X |
An alternative history of Roman Britain
Author | : Lacey M. Wallace |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107047579 |
Drawing on both published and archived archaeological evidence, this copiously illustrated book revolutionises our understanding of early Roman London.
Author | : Cristian Găzdac |
Publisher | : GAZDAC CRISTIAN |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Coins, Roman |
ISBN | : 6065430005 |
Author | : Michele Asolati |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2019-12-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789693977 |
This volume presents over 1070 coins (ca. 310 BC–AD 641) and 1320 examples of Late Roman and Early Islamic pottery. Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit emerge as centers of an exchange network involving large-scale trade of raw materials to and from the central and eastern Mediterranean.