Roman Finds
Context and Theory
Published on 10. April 2007
254 pages
978-1-78570-501-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- Authors' Addresses
- Foreword by Michael Fulford
- Acknowledgements
- The Context of Roman Finds Studies
- 1. Roman Finds: Context and Theory
- 2. Small Objects, Small Questions? Perceptions of Finds Research in the Academic Community
- 3. The Last Chance
- 4. Promoting the Study of Finds in Roman Britain: Democracy, Integration and Dissemination. Practice and Methodologies for the Future
- Method and Theory
- 5. Telling Stories About Brougham, or the Importance of the Specialist Report
- 6. Six Honest Serving Men: a Basic Methodology for the Study of Small Finds
- 7. Developing Methodology for Inter-Provincial Comparison of Pottery Assemblages
- 8. Mine's Bigger Than Yours: Comparing Values of Late Roman Hoards
- 9. Techniques for Exploring Context, Deposition and Chronology
- 10. Experiments in the Analysis of Finds Deposition at Shiptonthorpe: a Retrospect
- 11. Creolising the Body in Early Roman Britain
- 12. A Severed Head. Prolegomena to a Study of the Fragmented Body in Roman Archaeology and Art
- 13. Artefacts, Contexts and the Archaeology of Social Practices
- Applications of Method and Theory
- 14. Contexts in Colchester
- 15. Creating Order in Waste: Structured Deposits in Roman Tienen, Belgium
- 16. Not in My Back Yard! The Industry of Secondary Animal Products Within the Roman Civitas Capital of Tongeren, Belgium
- 17. Styles of Pottery Deposition at a Roman Rural Site in Hampshire
- 18. Deposit or Withdrawal?
- 19. The Detritus of Life: the Contribution of Small Finds to Understanding Smaller Military Installations
- 20. Silver for the Barbarians: Interpreting Denarii Hoards in North Britain and Beyond
