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Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic

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ISBN-10: 1405199660

ISBN-13: 9781405199667

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jane DeRose Evans

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The role of archaeology has expanded over the past 30 years, and research now frequently overlaps with the work of ancient historians and classicists. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic demonstrates how archaeological methods have been used to study the era of the Roman Republic, and the influences of non–Roman cultures on its formation.A collection of original essays by both emerging and established archaeologists with a wide range of nationalities and areas of interest, A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic reveals how differing approaches and methodologies contribute to an understanding of the Republic across the Mediterranean basin. Of interest both to…    
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Book details

List price: $281.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/6/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 752
Size: 6.90" wide x 9.80" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 3.388
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Material Culture and Its Impact on Social Configuration
Development of Baths and Public Bathing during the Roman Republic
Public Entertainment Structures
Republican Houses
Tombs and Funerary Monuments
Before Sigillata: Black-Gloss Pottery and Its Cultural Dimensions
Amphoras and Shipwrecks: Wine from the Tyrrhenian Coast at the End of the Republic and Its Distribution in Gaul
Coins and the Archaeology of the Roman Republic
Weapons and the Army
Bodies of Evidence: Skeletal Analysis in Roman Greece and Cyprus
Population and Demographic Studies
Archaeology and the Landscape
Looking at Early Rome with Fresh Eyes: Transforming the Landscape
Survey, Settlement and Land Use in Republican Italy
Agriculture and the Environment of Republican Italy
No Holiday Camp: The Roman Republican Army Camp as a Fine-Tuned Instrument of War
Reconstructing Religious Ritual in Italy
Archaeology and Ancient Technology
The Orientation of Towns and Centuriation
Scientia in Republican Era Stone and Concrete Masonry
Aqueducts and Water Supply
Roads and Bridges
Villas and Agriculture in Republican Italy
Ports
The Archaeology of Identity
Material Culture, Italic Identities and the Romanization of Italy
The Importance of Being Elite: The Archaeology of Identity in Etruria (500-200)
Greeks, Lucanians and Romans at Poseidonia/Paestum (South Italy)
Ce ntral Apennine Italy: The Case of Samnium
Early Rome and the Malting of "Roman" Identity through Architecture and City Planning
The Archaeology of Empire during the Republic
Material Culture and Identity in the Late Roman Republic (c. 200-c. 20)
The Archaeology of Mid-Republican Rome: The Emergence of a Mediterranean Capital
The Late Republican City of Rome
Cosa
Becoming Roman Overseas? Sicily and Sardinia in the Later Roman Republic
The Archaeology of Africa in the Roman Republic
Hispania: From the Roman Republic to the Reign of Augustus
The Archaeology of Palestine in the Republican Period
Greece and the Roman Republic: Athens and Corinth from the Late Third Century to the Augustan Era
Republican Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century
Computer Technologies and Republican Archaeology at Pompeii
Archaeology and Acquisition: The Experience of Republican Rome
References
Index