This second volume considers the rural economy of Roman Britain through the lenses of the principal occupations of agriculture and rural industry. It has two main concerns, the documentation of what is currently known of agricultural and industrial production in the countryside, and an exploration of the contribution that material culture can make to our understanding of how those resources moved across the province to feed and support military and civil populations and the development of towns and infrastructure between the mid-first century A.D. and the beginning of the fifth century A.D. At the same time, the classification and regional appraisal of rural settlement that is at the heart of Vol. 1, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain, has enabled this study to provide a social context for rural production and consumption.

The Rural Economy of Roman Britain: New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain, Volume 2 (Britannia Monographs)

Business & Money

Smith, Alexander

Fulford, Michael

Allen, Martyn

Lodwick, Lisa

Brindle, Tom

Economics

Roman Society Publications

This final volume of New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain 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. Many previous syntheses of life and death in Roman Britain have drawn mostly upon data from urban or military settings with rural life being limited to the elite residing in villas. Thanks largely to the increase in new information resulting from developer-funded excavations over the past thirty years, this situation has now changed so that we can place the spotlight firmly on the mass of the rural population living in farmsteads and nucleated settlements across the Roman province. This is a world that has rarely been explored before and provides a picture of the countryside of Roman Britain that is – for the most part – far removed from the bucolic scenes of villa-life. The six main chapters in this volume each tackle a different theme relating to life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain, all combining to facilitate construction of a broad social archaeology of the province. Overall the analyses indicate a geographically and socially diverse society influenced by pre-existing cultural traditions and degrees of social connectivity between settlements. There is no doubt that incorporation into the Roman Empire brought with it a great deal of social change though it would appear that this change was largely to the detriment of many of those living in the countryside. Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION by Michael Fulford CHAPTER 2: PERSONAL APPEARANCE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF ROMAN BRITAIN by Tom Brindle CHAPTER 3: LIFESTYLE AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT by Alexander Smith with Tom Brindle Michael Fulford and Lisa Lodwick CHAPTER 4: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF ANIMALS AND EXPLOITATION OF WILD RESOURCES by Martyn Allen CHAPTER 5: RELIGION AND THE RURAL POPULATION by Alexander Smith with contributions by Martyn Allen Tom Brindle and Lisa Lodwick CHAPTER 6: DEATH IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: RURAL BURIAL PRACTICES by Alexander Smith with contributions by Martyn Allen and Lisa Lodwick CHAPTER 7: THE RURAL POPULATION by Anna Rohnbogner CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS by Alexander Smith and Michael Fulford

Life and Death in the Countryside of Roman Britain: New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain: Volume 3 (Britannia Monographs)

History

Fulford, PRof. Michael

Ancient Civilizations

10 chapters by different authors arising from two conferences, one held in 2014 by the Roman Archaeology conference, the other in 2014 y the ZRPWG. The aim is to present colleagues specializing in other branches of Roman archaeology some of the latest zooarchaeological work. The focus is on the Western Empire, especially on Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Britain. Following the prologue and introduction by Martyn Allen comes a survey of the history of the discipline from a Romano-British perspective (Mark Maltby). Next come three overlapping themes: the pastoral economy (chapters by Tony King, Sabine Deschler-Erb & Maaike Groot, Michael MacKinnon), the exploitation of wild and exotic animals (chapters by Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin & Claudia Minniti; Holly Miller, Naomi Sykes & Christopher Ward) and ritual practices through animal sacrifice, religious offerings and feasting (chapters by Rachel Hesse; C. Corbino, Ornella Fonzo and Nancy de Grummond; and Martyn Allen). This last chapter focusses on the role that feasting, and particularly meat consumption, played in social relationships as southern Britain came to terms with Rome's growing influence.

The Role of Zooarchaeology in the Study of the Western Roman Empire (Jra Supplementary, 107)

Journal of Roman Archaeology

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