Siteless Survey and Intensive Data Collection in an Artifact-rich Environment: Case Studies from the Eastern Corinthia, Greece [PDF]
Archaeological survey in the eastern Mediterranean has become increasingly intensive over the last 20 years, producing greater and more diverse data for smaller units of space.
David K. Pettegrew +2 more
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Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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Challenges in Open Data: A TRAJ Perspective
The editorial of the fifth issue of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal focuses on the topic of open data. The editors consider both the challenges of using and disseminating open data within the field of Roman archaeology. We also reflect upon how
Francesca Mazzilli +1 more
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Social structures in Late Iron Age Transylvania. Archaeological evidence of social competition and hierarchy [PDF]
The scope of this article is to discuss the main components of the social structures which characterized the “Celtic” and the “Dacian” cultural and chronological horizons, and to identify, on the basis of the available archaeological evidence, the means ...
Aurel Rustoiu, Iosif Vasile Ferencz
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Reconsidering the Roman conquest: new archaeological perspectives [PDF]
This issue of JRA includes a thematic section with 5 papers on new advances in the archaeology of the Roman conquest. They emanate from a session organised by the present authors at the Roman Archaeology Conference held in April 2018 at the University of Edinburgh.
Fernandez-Gotz, Manuel, Roymans, Nico
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The making of Britain’s first urban landscapes: the case of late Iron Age and Roman Essex [PDF]
This paper presents preliminary research into the social and economic impact of early urban settlement in Britain, focusing on the case-study area of Late Iron Age to Roman Essex.
Perring, D, Pitts, M
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تصوير مهنة الجزارة وأدواتها في العصر الروماني Depiction of the Butchery Job and Its Tools in the Roman Era. [PDF]
الملخص: اكتسبت مهنة الجزارة خلال العصر الروماني أهمية كبيرة، ويرجع السبب في ذلك إلى الاعتماد على اللحوم كوجبة أساسية في النظام الغذائي الروماني، وقد عرف الجزارون الرومان التقنيات المناسبة لذبح الحيوانات ونزع أحشائها لضمان ذبحها بطريقة إنسانية وفعالة ...
Heba Farouk El Nahas
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Roman diet and trade: evidence from organic residues on pottery sherds recovered at the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester Hants.) [PDF]
The analysis of organic residues from pottery sherds using Gas-Chromatography with mass-spectroscopy (GC-MS) has revealed information about the variety of foods eaten and domestic routine at Silchester between the second and fourth–sixth centuries A.D ...
Copley +16 more
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Britannia in numbers: 50 years of the journal of Romano-British and kindred studies [PDF]
This paper reviews contributions to the journal Britannia over the last 50 years, and considers future directions.
Allen +14 more
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Post-Colonial Rome, and Beyond
Roman archaeology is one of the major subfields of archaeology in which post-colonial theory has flourished, and not just in relation to the role of the past in the present, but also as a means to approach the interpretation of the Roman world itself ...
Andrew Gardner
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