A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic.

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic.

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can contribute to a greater understanding of the formation of the Roman Republic. Brings together the experiences and ideas of archaeologists from around the...

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Main Author: Evans, Jane DeRose
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2012.
Series:Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
Subjects:
510-30 B.C.
Social archaeology > Rome.
Material culture > Rome.
Landscape archaeology > Rome.
Technology > Social aspects > Rome.
Group identity > Rome.
Imperialism > Social aspects > Rome.
Antiquities
Group identity
Imperialism > Social aspects
Landscape archaeology
Material culture
Social archaeology
Technology > Social aspects
Rome > History > Republic, 510-265 B.C.
Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C.
Rome > Antiquities.
Rome (Empire)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; PART I: Material Culture and Its Impact on Social Configuration; CHAPTER 1: Development of Baths and Public Bathing during the Roman Republic; 1 Introduction; 2 Bathing as Pleasure; 3 Bathing as Luxury; 4 Bathing and Ancient Medicine; 5 Bathing Ritual and Activities; 6 Ethical and Moral Concerns and Criticism of Roman Baths; 7 Baths of the Greeks; 8 Bathing in the Context of the Gymnasium; 9 Italian Farm Bathing.
  • 10 Heating and Water Supply Systems11 Sergius Orata and the Invention of the Hypocaust; 12 Physical Evidence; 13 Dissemination of the Row-Type Baths; CHAPTER 2: Public Entertainment Structures; 1 Introduction; 2 Theaters; 3 Amphitheaters; 4 Circuses; 5 Conclusions; CHAPTER 3: Republican Houses; 1 Introduction; 2 Where to Find the Republican Domus; 3 The Layout of the Atrium House; 4 Development of the Atrium House; 5 Other Types of Housing; 6 Spatial Syntax; 7 Decoration; 8 The View; 9 Horti; CHAPTER 4: Tombs and Funerary Monuments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Situation before the Second Century.
  • 3 Roman and Italian Necropolises of the Second Century4 Streetside Tombs in Late Republican and Early Augustan Times; 5 Ostia; 6 Northern and Eastern Italy; 7 Etruria; 8 Campania; 9 Apulia; 10 Central Italy; 11 Picenum and Umbria; 12 Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 5: Before Sigillata: Black-Gloss Pottery and Its Cultural Dimensions; 1 Introduction; 2 Production Techniques and Technological Choices; 3 Shapes, Typologies and Chronologies; 4 Black-Gloss Wares and Cultural History; 5 The Future Scope of Ceramic Culture in the Archaeology of the Roman Republic.
  • CHAPTER 6: Amphoras and Shipwrecks: Wine from the Tyrrhenian Coast at the End of the Republic and Its Distribution in Gaul1 Introduction; 2 Italian Wines and the Vineyards of the Tyrrhenian Coast; 3 What Can We Say about Shipwrecks?; 4 Tyrrhenian Wine Consumption in Gaul; 5 The Means of Distribution of Italian Wine in Gaul; 6 The End of the Wine Trade from Italy; 7 Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 7: Coins and the Archaeology of the Roman Republic; 1 Introduction; 2 Coins in Excavated Strata; 3 Coins and Chronology; 4 Coins and Coin Use; 5 Coins in Hoards.
  • 6 Case Study: The Introduction of the Iberian Denarius7 Conclusion; 8 Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 8: Weapons and the Army; 1 Introduction; 2 Archaeological Sources and Research; 3 The Early Republican Army and Its Weapons; 4 The Manipular Army and Its Weapons; 5 The Late Republican Army and Its Weapons; 6 Conclusion; CHAPTER 9: Bodies of Evidence: Skeletal Analysis in Roman Greece and Cyprus; 1 Introduction; 2 Biological Anthropology in the Archaeological Context; 3 Minimum Number of Individuals; 4 Sex; 5 Age; 6 Stature; 7 Dentition; 8 Pathology; 9 Conclusions.

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