Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers

Preface

Part 1. Reports from the congress and field trips

The 25th Congress of Roman Frontier Studies in Nijmegen
Rebecca H. Jones & Andreas Thiel

A record of the 25th Congress of Roman Frontier Studies
Harry van Enckevort, Mark Driessen, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol van Driel-Murray

The excursions
Mark Driessen, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol van Driel-Murray

Part 2. Feminists at the gates. Frontier research by female academics

Feminists at the gates. Feminist approaches to Roman frontiers
Anna H. Walas and Rebecca H. Jones

The (In)visibility of women in stone-cut personal inscriptions from fortresses in Roman Britain. Epigraphic absence, or earlier scholarship bias?
Joanne E. Ball

Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons. The presence of women on the Dacian Limes
Stefania Dogarel

Britannia Romana. Ambiguous image of a province Kseniya
S. Danilochkina

A snapshot of two pioneering female archaeologists in Switzerland. Elisabeth Ettlinger and Victorine von Gonzenbach in Vindonissa around 1950
Regine Fellmann Brogli and Christine Meyer-Freuler

Female archaeologists and Roman military research in Croatia
Iva Kaic and Mima Cvetko

Women and Roman religion in provinces. Case study Dalmatia
Anna Mech

Walls don't stop women. An urban approach to frontier sites
Catherine Teitz

Part 3. Digital Limes. The use of modern methods and advanced techniques for a better understanding of the frontier development

Digital Limes. Introduction to the session and a discussion of temporary camps in the Netherlands to illustrate the use of modern methods and advanced techniques for a better understanding of the Roman Frontier development
Wouter K. Vos, Roeland Emaus, Jeroen Oosterbaan and Maarten Sepers

Tactics or topography? Interdisciplinary studies on the course of the Upper German Limes. A preliminary report
Peter Henrich, Matthias Lang and Jennifer Schamper

Supplying the Limes Britannicus. An approach from network science and archaeology
Arnau Lario Devesa and Jordi Perez Gonzalez

Research on the effects of relative sea-level change on the River Exe estuary in the mid-1st century AD (South-West Britain)
Stephen J. Kaye and John Pamment Salvatore

Roman camps of Villamontan de la Valduerna.Camp complex close to Via XVII. Item a Bracara Astvricam
Esperanza Martin Hernandez, Florian Hermann and Felix Teichner

Part 4. Simulating the limes. Challenges to computational modelling in Roman Studies

Lost and found on the frontier. Predictive modelling and Late Roman forts in Scythia Minor (4th-7th centuries AD)
Nathaniel F. Durant

Dealing with changes in qualitative and quantitative aspects of the imported Roman metal objects within the Marcomannic settlement zone in the era of metal detecting
Balazs Komoroczy, Marek Vlach and Michaela Kmoskova

Investigating Roman strata to the core. The use of well core data in the interpolation of Vindobona's archaeological layers
Kira Lappe

Following Baradez's tracks. The GIS approach integrating photographic and satellite sources near Biskra (Algeria)
Andrea Meleri and Paola Zanovello

Roman connectivity, networking and mobility along the Lower Danube frontier. A GIS approach
Ioana A. Oltean and D. Ciprian Lungescu

Part 5. 'Managing the Romans?' Preservation, protection and community management of frontiers. Opportunities, challenges, and use of 'citizen science'

Imagining Hadrian's Wall. Developing and assessing explanations behind its construction
Paul J. Kitching

Engaging disadvantaged communities in heritage-led regeneration. Rediscovering the Antonine Wall Project
Riona McMorrow

Frontier Voices. A creative exploration
Nigel Mills and Karen MacDougall

Hadrian's Wall. Managing 1900 years of a cultural resource for the future generation
Katie Mountain and Marta Alberti

Community involvement in the World Heritage Sites of Pecs (Sopianae)
Daniel Poulet

Limes in the forest. Threats and chances
Andreas A. Schaflitzl

Citizen science on Hadrian's Wall. A case study of the WallCAP Project
Kerry Shaw

Identity though art. How Weissenburg is strengthening its role as a Roman city in modern Bavaria
Simon Sulk

Part 6. Reconstructing the limes. Roman archaeology as national and transnational heritage

Reception of the limes in cities along the Rhine and the Danube (16th and 17th centuries)
Konrad A. Ottenheym

Cologne praetorium, new findings. The bath of the Governor and news about phases of the late antique and early medieval times
Sebastian Ristow

The Romantic Limes
Catherine Visser

Part 7. Frontiers of the Roman Empire. World Heritage across three continents

Frontiers of the Roman Empire. World Heritage across three continents
Marinus Polak, Stephanie Guedon and Rene Ployer

Le systeme de defense romain en Mauretanie tingitane
Aomar Akerraz

An Interpretation Framework methodology for the Roman frontiers in Tunisia
Christof Fluegel and Nigel T.W. Mills

Frontiers of the Roman Empire. UNESCO World Heritage and frontier perspectives
Stephanie Guedon

Developing a management system for the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage
Rebecca H. Jones

Living Danube Limes Interreg project
Ivana Ozanic Roguljic, Mislav Files and Nemanja Mrdic

The Eastern Limes. Observations towards a sustainable nomination strategy for the Anatolian Frontier
OEzge Deniz Tokoez and Zeynep Aktuere

Part 8. Wall to Wall

Wall to Wall. A collaborative initiative between Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall of China
David Brough

Vulnerability assessment of the natural disasters of the Great Wall in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
Fei Cheng and Dong Xiao

Comparison of the military system of the China's Great Wall and the ancient Roman frontier
Li Yan, Zhai Yujie, Yao Wang and Li Zhe

Archaeology of Qingping fort site. Practicing the purpose and idea of archaeology
Yu Chunlei

A Large granary found along the Great Wall of Western Han Dynasty in Hetao Region
Zhang Wenping and Zhao Fei

Part 9. Overview of sessions and papers