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  • Social Dynamics in the Northwest Frontiers of the Late Roman Empire

    Beyond Transformation or Decline

    Series series Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
    This volume explores the final phase of the West Roman Empire, particularly the changing interactions between the imperial authority and external 'barbarian' groups in the northwest frontiers of the empire during the fourth and fifth centuries. The contributions present valuable overviews of recent archaeological research combined with innovative theoretical discussions. Key topics include the ... Read more

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  • Villa Landscapes in the Roman North

    Economy, Culture and Lifestyles

    Series series Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
    This edited volume presents a synthesis of recent research on villas and villa landscapes in the northern provinces of the Roman world. It offers an original, multi-dimensional perspective on the social, economic and cultural functioning of villas within the context of the Roman empire. Themes discussed include the economic basis of villa dominated landscapes, rural slavery, town-country dynamics, ... Read more

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  • Archaeology of the Roman Conquest

    Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered

    Series series Elements in the Archaeology of Europe
    This Element volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeology of the Roman conquest, combining new theoretical and methodological approaches with the latest fieldwork results. Recent advances in conflict archaeology research are revolutionising our knowledge of Rome's military campaigns in Western and Central Europe, allowing scholars to reassess the impact of the conquest on the ... Read more

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  • Late Iron Age Gold Hoards from the Low Countries and the Caesarian Conquest of Northern Gaul

    Series series Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
    This volume presents eight new Iron Age gold hoards from the southern Netherlands and Belgium, consisting of gold coinages and in several cases also gold ornaments. The study of these hoards provides a wealth of new information on the archaeological contexts in which they were found, on the dating of many coin types and jewellery, and on the social role of gold in pre-Roman society. All these ... Read more

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  • Conflict Archaeology

    Materialities of Collective Violence from Prehistory to Late Antiquity

    Series series Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
    In the past two decades, conflict archaeology has become firmly established as a promising field of research, as reflected in publications, symposia, conference sessions and fieldwork projects. It has its origins in the study of battlefields and other conflict-related phenomena in the modern Era, but numerous studies show that this theme, and at least some of its methods, techniques and theories, ... Read more

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  • Handbook to Roman Legionary Fortresses

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    An extensive guide to the legionary fortresses of the Roman Empire, including locations, history, layout, and more.This is a reference guide to Roman legionary fortresses throughout the former Roman Empire, of which approximately eighty-five have been located and identified. With the expansion of the empire and the garrisoning of its army in frontier regions during the 1st century AD, Rome began ... Read more

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    This book describes and analyses the development of the Roman West from Gibraltar to the Rhine, using primarily the extensive body of published archaeological evidence rather than the textual evidence underlying most other studies. It situates this development within a longer-term process of change, proposing the later second century rather than the 'third-century crisis' as the major turning ... Read more

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  • The Celtic World

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  • The City in the Roman West, c.250 BC–c.AD 250

    The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the Greek-speaking East but where networks of cities grew up during the centuries following conquest and occupation. This well-illustrated synthesis provides ... Read more

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    Defended Communities of the 8th-10th Centuries

    Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control - of states, frontiers, lands, materials, ... Read more

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