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Literary and documentary evidence for lay medical practice in the Roman Republic and Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The majority of surviving ancient medical literature was written by medical practitioners and produced for the purpose of ensuring the effective diagnosis and treatment of their patients, suggesting an audience of medical professionals ranging from ...
Draycott, Jane
core   +1 more source

Embodied Identities in Roman Britain: A Bioarchaeological Approach

open access: yes, 2017
Human skeletal remains from Roman Britain are abundant and provide a rich repository of social as well as biological information concerning health, migration, diet and body/society interactions.
R. Gowland
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What was a mortarium used for? Organic residues and cultural change in Iron Age and Roman Britain. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The Romans brought the mortarium to Britain in the first century AD, and there has long been speculation on its actual purpose. Using analysis of the residues trapped in the walls of these ‘kitchen blenders’ and comparing them with Iron Age and Roman ...
Cramp, Lucy J E   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper presents new carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope data for European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) in Roman Britain and discusses results in light of evidence from classical texts, landscape archaeology, zooarchaeology and the limited available ...
Lamb, Angela   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

A Foot in Both Camps: The Civilian Suppliers of the Army in Roman Britain

open access: yesTheoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2018
The civilian attendants and suppliers of the Roman army—those who were attached economically and voluntarily to the Roman military—are an important and understudied group. This article explores their roles and experiences during the Principate in Britain.
Ben Kolbeck
doaj   +2 more sources

Style and substance: some metal figurines from south-west Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A hoard found in Southbroom, Devizes in 1714 contained a group of copper-alloy figurines executed in both classical and local styles and depicting deities belonging to the Graeco-Roman and Gallo-Roman pantheons.
Durham, E.
core   +1 more source

The photoswitchable cannabinoid azo‐HU308 enables optical control of Ca2+ dynamics in INS‐1 β‐cells via off‐target effects on TRPC channels

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Light activation of the photoswitchable cannabinoid ligand azo‐HU308 triggers Ca2+ influx in pancreatic β‐cells through TRPC channels, independent of CB2 cannabinoid receptors. This reveals a non‐GPCR pathway for cannabinoid modulation of β‐cell Ca2+ dynamics and establishes azo‐HU308 as an optical tool to study cannabinoid signaling through TRP ...
Alexander E. G. Viray, James A. Frank
wiley   +1 more source

Spenser and the Historical Revolution: Briton Moniments and the Problem of Roman Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Curran argues that, since Roman Britain is a key to understanding the historiographical debates of Edmund Spenser\u27s time, the Roman Britain section of Briton Moniments in The Faerie Queene needs to be examined.
Curran, John E., Jr.
core   +1 more source

Olive-oil amphorae imports in Roman Britain: 20 years later

open access: yesHeródoto, 2018
Pedro Pablo A. Funari carried out research in amphora studies in Roman Britain in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was interested in the epigraphy (painted inscriptions and stamps) on the most common amphora in the Isles, which was the Baetican Dressel
Cèsar Carreras Monfort
doaj   +1 more source

Wo(man) with the Serpent Hair: An Assessment of the Validity of Globalization and Glocalization Framework in the Study of Roman Britain through Romano-British Sculpture of the Gorgon

open access: yesTheoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2023
Versluys (2014, 2015) proposed a way of looking at the visual material culture of the Roman Mediterranean through the lens of globalization. Can this approach to globalization apply to the visual material culture of Great Britain in the Roman period if ...
Chelsea Peer
doaj   +2 more sources

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