50 Roman Finds
Title | 50 Roman Finds PDF eBook |
Author | John Pearce |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
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.
Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire
Title | Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Stefanie Hoss |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
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.
Roman Britain and Where to Find It
Title | Roman Britain and Where to Find It PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Allen |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
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.
Roman Britain Through its Objects
Title | Roman Britain Through its Objects PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Ferris |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2012-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 144561586X |
An alternative history of Roman Britain
Roman Finds
Title | Roman Finds PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hingley |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
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.
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Title | Bridge Over Troubled Water PDF eBook |
Author | Hella Eckardt |
Publisher | Britannia Monograph |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2021-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780907764489 |
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.
Kom al-Ahmer – Kom Wasit II: Coin Finds 2012–2016 / Late Roman and Early Islamic Pottery from Kom al-Ahmer
Title | Kom al-Ahmer – Kom Wasit II: Coin Finds 2012–2016 / Late Roman and Early Islamic Pottery from Kom al-Ahmer PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Asolati |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
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.