Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial
societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and …

Blood of the Provinces is the first fully comprehensive study of the largest part of the Roman
army, the auxilia. This non-citizen force constituted more than half of Rome's celebrated …

Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman
expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic …

Both terms require a definition. For the purposes of this chapter thresholds are found where
different elements were brought into contact with one another and where it was possible for …

This debate piece offers a critique of some recent 'new materialist'approaches and their
application to Roman expansionism, particularly those positing that the study of …

For the last twenty years or so, archaeologists of Roman Britain, among other provinces,
have been seeking ways of moving beyond the concept of 'Romanisation'as a framework for …

This volume explores the theme of ethnicity and ethnogenesis in societies of the ancient
world. Its starting point is the current view in the social and historical sciences of ethnicity as …

This volume explores Rome's northern provinces through the portable artefacts people used
and left behind. Objects are crucial to our understanding of the past, and can be used to …

Using a life-cycle model for Roman soldiers, Johan Nicolay interprets the large quantity of
first-century finds as personal memorabilia brought home by ex-soldiers as a reminder of …

This paper discusses the concept of identity as an increasingly central research theme in
Anglo-American Roman archaeology. The first part provides an overview and critique of the …