The Romanization of Britain is a study of cultural change and interaction. While there are many narrative histories of Roman Britain, this synthesis of recent archaeological work presents the evidence in a new and provocative way. Dr. Millett examines the romanization of Britain as a social process and from a local perspective, by looking in detail at the complex patterns of interaction between Roman imperialism and the native Roman population. Wide-ranging and extensive data from the archaeological, historical and epigraphic records are interpreted through anthropological and socio-economic models. The focus is however, always on the excavated material, and provides a clear explanation for it without overemphasis on the literary sources. An important feature of the book is the collection of tables and appendices that will be an authoritative source for all those working on the province.

The Romanization of Britain: An Essay in Archaeological Interpretation

Politics & Social Sciences

Millett, Martin

Archaeology

Cambridge University Press

The Romanization of Britain is a study of cultural change and interaction. While there are many narrative histories of Roman Britain, this synthesis of recent archaeological work presents the evidence in a new and provocative way. Dr. Millett examines the romanization of Britain as a social process and from a local perspective, by looking in detail at the complex patterns of interaction between Roman imperialism and the native Roman population. Wide-ranging and extensive data from the archaeological, historical and epigraphic records are interpreted through anthropological and socio-economic models. The focus is however, always on the excavated material, and provides a clear explanation for it without overemphasis on the literary sources. An important feature of the book is the collection of tables and appendices that will be an authoritative source for all those working on the province.

History

Ancient Civilizations

How the Roman system influenced the politics, art, religion, and general way of life of the native peoples of Britain after the Claudian invasion of AD 43. Despite the richness of archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence, what actually occurred remains a subject of keen debate.

Roman Britain: (Historic Scotland Series) (English Heritage)

Arts & Photography

Batsford

In this work, archaeologist Martin Millett examines the latest archaeological and historical sources to help us to understand the cultural, social and economic effects of 400 years of Roman rule.

Roman Britain (English Heritage)

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

In AD 42, the Emperor Claudius initiated work on the construction of a new artificial harbour a short distance to the north of the mouth of the Tiber. The harbour facilities were enlarged at the instigation of the Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the second century AD, and Portus remained the principal port for the City of Rome into the Byzantine period. The surviving archaeological remains and comments by ancient sources make it clear that Portus lay at the heart of Rome's maritime façade. As well as being a key Mediterranean centre for passengers and for the loading, unloading, transshipment and storage of products from across the Empire, it was also designed to make an ideological statement about the supremacy of Rome in the world. Portus is, thus, of key importance to understanding Rome and her relationship to the Empire. The project that forms the subject of this book was designed to use non-destructive techniques of topographic and geophysical survey in combination with systematic surface collection to provide a new understanding of the plan of Portus. The work was undertaken between 1997 and 2002 as a collaboration between the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia, the British School at Rome, and the Universities of Southampton, Durham and Cambridge. This volume presents the full results of the survey and uses them as the basis for a re-evaluation of the whole port complex. The geophysical survey results are interpreted in the context of earlier work at the site in order to offer new perspectives on the character and development of the site. Table of Contents Foreword (Anna Gallina Zevi); Introduction (Simon Keay, Martin Millett and Helen Patterson); Background to Portus (Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Simon Keay, Martin Millett and Fausto Zevi); History of past research at Portus (Lidia Paroli); Methodology (Simon Keay, Martin Millett and Kristian Strutt); The Survey results (Simon Keay, Martin Millett and Kristian Strutt); The finds from field walking (Alessandra Bousquet, Will Clarke, Franca Del Vecchio, Fabrizio Felici, Sergio Fontana, Shawn Graham, Simon Keay, Cristiana Mele, Isabel Roda, Claudia Valeri and Sabrina Zampini); Summary of other recent fieldwork at Portus (Cinzia Morelli, Lidia Paroli and Patrizia A Verduchi); Integration and discussion (Simon Keay and Martin Millett); Portus in context (Simon Keay and Martin Millett); Appendix A: Principal epigraphic and numismatic sources referring to Portus (Simon Keay and Martin Millett); Appendix B: Principal historical texts referring to Portus (Simon Keay, Martin Millett and Chris Whitton); Appendix C: Key plan showing the field-walking grid square numbers; Appendix D: Plans of Portus; References; Contributors' addresses; Index.

Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome)

Keay, Simon

Paroli, Lidia

Strutt, Kristian

British School at Rome

The remarkable extent, state of preservation and monuments of Ocriculum make this one of the most important archaeological sites in ancient Italy. Located close to the river Tiber, north of Rome on the Via Flaminia, many travellers were drawn to Otricoli and its landscape, lured by its beauty. Significant monumental remains of the Roman town are still visible: the amphitheatre, the theatre, the forum area, basilica, baths and nymphaeum. Academic studies devoted to this important town are many, and this volume represents a further contribution to our understanding of the ancient town. Here are published the results of the urban survey in 2002–5. Field survey was coupled with a geophysical survey that has identified new features. This work adds greatly to our understanding of the ancient town and tells a different story to that usually told of Roman towns in terms of scale, layout and organization, as well as architectural and sculptural finds; and thus contributes significantly to debate on Roman urbanism. With contributions by Luana Cenciaioli, Sophy Downes, Rose Ferraby, Enrico Floridi, Shawn Graham, Salvatore Piro, Tim Sly, Lacey M. Wallace, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and Sabrina Zampini

Ocriculum (Otricoli, Umbria): An Archaeological Survey of the Roman Town (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome)

Hay, Sophie

First published in 1985, this collection of essays has proved popular for those teaching archaeological field methods. It deals with methodological problems in a general way, but also illustrated by some case studies from both Britain and the continent, from regional strategies to the intensive study of a specific site.

Archaeology from the Ploughsoil: Studies in the Collection and Interpretation of Field Survey Data (Sheffield Excavation Reports (John Collis))

Smith, IAN

John Collis Publications

Digital reprint of this important collection of papers which form the companion to 'Early Roman Empire in the East' (Oxbow 1997). Fourteen contributions examine the interaction of Roman and native peoples in the formative years of the Roman provinces in Italy, Gaul, Spain and Portugal, Germany and Britain. Contents: Introduction (Thomas Blagg and Martin Millett); The creation of provincial landscape: the Roman impact on Cisalpine Gaul (Nicholas Purcell); Romanization: a point of view (Richard Reece); Romanization: historical issues and archaeological interpretation (Martin Millett); The romanization of Belgic Gaul (Colin Haselgrove); Lower Germany: proto-urban settlement developments and the integration of native society (J. H. F. Bloemers); Relations between Roman occupation and the Limesvorland in the province of Germania Inferior (Jurgen Kunow); Early Roman military installations and Ubian settlements in the Lower Rhine (Michael Gechter); Some observations on acculturation process at the edge of the Roman world (S. D. Trow); Processes in the development of the coastal communities of Hispania Citerior in the Republican period (Simon Keay); Romanization and urban development in Lusitania (Jonathan Edmondson); Urban munificence and the growth of urban consciousness in Roman Spain (Nicola Mackie); First-century Roman houses in Gaul and Britain (T. F. C. Blagg); Towards an assessment of the economic and social consequences of the Roman conquest of Gaul (J. F. Drinkwater); The emergence of Romano-Celtic religion (Anthony King)

The Early Roman Empire in the West

Blagg, T. F. C.

Oxbow Books

Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province. This collection of twenty-eight papers, from a symposium held at the University of Durham in 1997, explores different approaches to examine the contribution that cemeteries can make to our wider understanding of Roman society. The papers are grouped under five headings: The reconstruction of mortuary rituals; Burial and social status; The dead in the landscape; Burial and ethnicity and society; Religion and Burial in late Roman Britain and Italy. Table of Contents Preface (M.Millet) vii Abstracts, Zusammenfassungen, Resumes ix List of Contributors xxiii THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MORTUARY RITUALS 1. Burial, society and context in the provincial Roman worls (J.Pearce) p.1 Introduction p.13 2. Ritual, sequence, and structure in Late Iron Age mortuary practices in north-west Europe (A.p. Fitxpatrick) p.15 3. Reconstructing funerary rituals: the evidence of ustrina and related archaeological structures (M.Polfer) p.30 4. Phoenix rising: aspects of cremation in Roman Britain (J. McKinley) p.38 5. Functional and conceptual archaeobotanical data from Roman cremations (A. Kreuz) p.45 6. Pottery assemblages in Gallo-Roman cemteries (M. Tuffreau-Libre) p.52 BURIAL AND SOCIAL STATUS Introduction p.61 7.Mors immatura in he Roman world - a mirror of society and tradition (S. Martin-Kilcher) p.63 8. Portrait figures on sephulchral altars of Roman liberti: evidence of Romanization or assimilation of attributes characterizing higher social strata? (D. Dexheimer) p.78 9. High status burials in roman Britain (1st-3rd centuries AD) - potential of interpretation (M. Struck) p. 85 10. Funerary rites in Verulamium during the early Roman period (R. Niblett) p.97 11. Biology and burial practices from the end of the first century AD to the beginning of the fifth century AD: the rurla necropolis of Chantambre (essonne, France) (P. Murail and L. Girard) p.105 12. A Roman cemetery in the eastern Civitas Treverorum. Preliminary report on the excavations in Wadern-Oberlosten in Northwest Saarland (Germany) (A. Abegg-Wigg) p.112 13.An elite funerary enclosure in the centre of the villa of Biberist-Spitalhof (Switzerland) - a case study (C. Schucany) p.118 THE DEAD IN THE LANDSCAPE Introduction p.125 14. Putting the dead in their place: burial location in Roman Britain (S. Esmonde Cleary) p.127 15. Continuity of prehistoric burial sites in the Roman landscape of Sandy Flanders (F. Vermeulen and J. Bourgeois) p. 143 16. The living and the dead: approches to landscape around Lyons (L. Tranoy) p.162 17. Burial in Asia Minor during the Imperial period, with particular reference to Cilicia and Cappadocia (M. Spanu) p.169 BURIAL AND ETHNICITY Introduction p.179 18. Early Roman graves in Southern Bavaria: a review (P. Fasold) p. 181 19. Early Roman graves in Cologne (M. Riedel) p. 192 20. Connection between funerary rites and ethnic groups in the cemeteries of north-eastern Pannonia (J. Topal) p.197 21. Romanization and ethnic elements in burial practice in the southern part of Pannonia Inferior and Moesia Superior) A. Jovanovic) p.204 SOCIETY, RELIGION AND BURIAL IN LATE ROMAN BRITAIN AND ITALY Introduction p.215 22. Putting Late Roman burial practice (from Britain) in context (L. Quensel-von-Kalben) 23. Gender imbalances in Romano-British cemetery populations: a re-evaluation of the evidence (C. Davison) p.231 24. Glass vessels as grave goods and grave ornaments in the catacombs of Rome (P. De Santis) p.238 25. Clothing in burial practice in Italy in the early Christian period (R. Martorelli) p. 244 26. Amulet and grave in Late Antiquity: some examples from Roman cemeteries (D. Nuzzo) p.249 27. Funerary equipment from the circiforme basilica by the Via Ardeatina, Rome (P. del Moro) p.256 28. Intra-mural burials at Rome between the 5th and 7th centuries AD (R, Meneghini and R. Santangeli Valenzani) p. 263 Afterword (R.Reece) p.270

Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World

Pearce,John

Struck, Manuela

Digital reprint of this important collection of papers which form the companion to ' Early Roman Empire in the East' (Oxbow 1997) . Fourteen contributions examine the interaction of Roman and native peoples in the formative years of the Roman provinces in Italy, Gaul, Spain and Portugal, Germany and Britain. Contents: Introduction ( Thomas Blagg and Martin Millett ); The creation of provincial landscape: the Roman impact on Cisalpine Gaul ( Nicholas Purcell ); Romanization: a point of view ( Richard Reece ); Romanization: historical issues and archaeological interpretation ( Martin Millett ); The romanization of Belgic Gaul ( Colin Haselgrove ); Lower Germany: proto-urban settlement developments and the integration of native society ( J. H. F. Bloemers ); Relations between Roman occupation and the Limesvorland in the province of Germania Inferior ( Jurgen Kunow ); Early Roman military installations and Ubian settlements in the Lower Rhine ( Michael Gechter ); Some observations on acculturation process at the edge of the Roman world ( S. D. Trow ); Processes in the development of the coastal communities of Hispania Citerior in the Republican period ( Simon Keay ); Romanization and urban development in Lusitania ( Jonathan Edmondson ); Urban munificence and the growth of urban consciousness in Roman Spain ( Nicola Mackie ); First-century Roman houses in Gaul and Britain ( T. F. C. Blagg ); Towards an assessment of the economic and social consequences of the Roman conquest of Gaul ( J. F. Drinkwater ); The emergence of Romano-Celtic religion ( Anthony King ). Table of Contents Introduction (Thomas Blagg and Martin Millett) The creation of provincial landscape: the Roman impact on Cisalpine Gaul (Nicholas Purcell) Romanization: a point of view (Richard Reece) Romanization: historical issues and archaeological interpretation (Martin Millett) The romanization of Belgic Gaul (Colin Haselgrove) Lower Germany: proto-urban settlement developments and the integration of native society (J. H. F. Bloemers) Relations between Roman occupation and the Limesvorland in the province of Germania Inferior (Jurgen Kunow) Early Roman military installations and Ubian settlements in the Lower Rhine (Michael Gechter) Some observations on acculturation process at the edge of the Roman world (S. D. Trow) Processes in the development of the coastal communities of Hispania Citerior in the Republican period (Simon Keay) Romanization and urban development in Lusitania (Jonathan Edmondson) Urban munificence and the growth of urban consciousness in Roman Spain (Nicola Mackie) First-century Roman houses in Gaul and Britain (T. F. C. Blagg) Towards an assessment of the economic and social consequences of the Roman conquest of Gaul (J. F. Drinkwater) The emergence of Romano-Celtic religion (Anthony King)

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The Romanization of Britain: An Essay in Archaeological Interpretation

The Romanization of Britain: An Essay in Archaeological Interpretation

Roman Britain: (Historic Scotland Series) (English Heritage)

Roman Britain (English Heritage)

Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome)

Ocriculum (Otricoli, Umbria): An Archaeological Survey of the Roman Town (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome)

Archaeology from the Ploughsoil: Studies in the Collection and Interpretation of Field Survey Data (Sheffield Excavation Reports (John Collis))

The Early Roman Empire in the West

Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World

The Early Roman Empire in the West