Authors: Peter Rush
ISBN-13: 9781856287135, ISBN-10: 1856287130
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: April 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This volume had its origins in the second Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference held in 1992 at Bradford, which followed the ethos of the first conference: an essentially egalitarian arena for discussion of, and fighting over, the introduction and application of theory in Roman archaeology. Accepting the need for explicit awareness of theory in Roman archaeology, the contributors get on with the business of showing how a wide variety of perspectives and intellectual approaches offer new insights or alternative interpretations of a range of data. This, the second volume on theoretical Roman archaeology, surely demonstrates not only the enthusiasm generated by new ideas but something of the intellectual rigour required to use them.
List of Contributors | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Gender in Question | 3 |
2 | 'Sexing' Small Finds | 22 |
3 | Roman Finds Assemblages, towards an Integrated Approach? | 33 |
4 | Collapse Theory and the End of Birdoswald | 59 |
5 | Analysis of Social and Cultural Diversity on Rural Burial Sites in North-Eastern Raetia | 70 |
6 | Locational Models and the Study of Romano-British Small Towns | 81 |
7 | Prologue to a Study of Roman Urban Form | 92 |
8 | Symbols of Power and Nature: the Orpheus Mosaics of Fourth Century Britain and Their Architectural Contexts | 105 |
9 | Romans and Britons on the Northern Frontier: a Theoretical Evaluation of the Archaeology of Resistance | 124 |
10 | Shopper's Paradise: Consumers in Roman Britain | 132 |
11 | Economy and Space in Roman Britain | 141 |
12 | Roman Pottery Research for the 1990s | 148 |
13 | Theory, Practice and Research in an Urban Unit: a Personal Perspective | 158 |
14 | Women and Gender Relations in the Roman Empire | 174 |