Author: York Archaeological TrustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church Street (York, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Archaeology of York: The small finds
Author: York Archaeological TrustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church Street (York, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Archaeology of York: The small finds. fasc. 1. Finds from a Roman sewer system and an adjacent building in Church Street
Author: York Archaeological TrustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Archaeology of York
Author: Patrick OttawayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781902771267
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire
Author: Stefanie HossPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785702599
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Small finds – the stuff of everyday life – offer archaeologists a fascinating glimpse into the material lives of the ancient Romans. These objects hold great promise for unravelling the ins and outs of daily life, especially for the social groups, activities, and regions for which few written sources exist. Focusing on amulets, brooches, socks, hobnails, figurines, needles, and other “mundane” artefacts, these 12 papers use small finds to reconstruct social lives and practices in the Roman Northwest provinces. Taking social life broadly, the various contributions offer insights into the everyday use of objects to express social identities, Roman religious practices in the provinces, and life in military communities. By integrating small finds from the Northwest provinces with material, iconographic, and textual evidence from the whole Roman empire, contributors seek to demystify Roman magic and Mithraic religion, discover the latest trends in ancient fashion (socks with sandals!), explore Roman interactions with Neolithic monuments, and explain unusual finds in unexpected places. Throughout, the authors strive to maintain a critical awareness of archaeological contexts and site formation processes to offer interpretations of past peoples and behaviors that most likely reflect the lived reality of the Romans. While the range of topics in this volume gives it wide appeal, scholars working with small finds, religion, dress, and life in the Northwest provinces will find it especially of interest. Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices grew out of a session at the 2014 Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference.
The Archaeology of York
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902771106
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Archaeology of York
Author: Everyday Products in the Middle Ages
Author: Gitte HansenPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782978054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were influenced by those transactions, or about the complex networks of individuals whose actions allowed raw materials to be extracted, hewn into objects, stored and ultimately shipped for market. Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edge techniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives of these much overlooked ordinary people, painting of a number of detailed portraits to explore the worlds of actors involved in the lives of everyday products - objects of bone, leather, stone, ceramics, and base metal - and their production and use in medieval northern Europe. In so doing, this book seeks to draw attention away from the emergent trend to return to systems and global models, and restore to centre stage what should be the archaeologists most important concern: the people of the past.
Roman Finds
Author: Richard HingleyPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785705032
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book 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.
Objects and Identities
Author: Hella EckardtPublisher:
ISBN: 0199693986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This volume explores Rome's northern provinces through the portable artefacts people used and left behind. Objects are crucial to our understanding of the past, and can be used to explore interlinking aspects of identity. For example, can we identify incomers? How are exotic materials (such as amber and ivory) and objects depicting 'the exotic' (e.g. Africans) consumed? Do regional styles exist below the homogenizing influence of Roman trade? How do all these aspects of identity interact with others, such as status, gender, and age? In this innovative study, the author combines theoretical awareness and a willingness to engage with questions of social and cultural identity with a thorough investigation into the well-published but underused material culture of Rome's northern provinces. Pottery and coins, the dominant categories of many other studies, have here been largely excluded in favour of small portable objects such as items of personal adornment, amulets, and writing equipment. The case studies included were chosen because they relate to specific, often interlinking aspects of identity such as provincial, elite, regional, or religious identity. Their meaning is explored in their own right and in depth, and in careful examination of their contexts. It is hoped that these case studies will be of use to archaeologists working in other periods, and indeed to students of material culture generally by making a small contribution to a growing corpus of academic and popular books that develop interpretative, historical narratives from selected objects.
Dress and Identity in Iron Age Britain
Author: Elizabeth Marie FouldsPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784915270
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims to explore the role that this object played within the networks and relationships that constructed Iron Age society.