This essay argues that Romanization revolves around understanding objects in motion and
that Roman archaeologists should therefore focus on (1) globalization theory and (2) …

In the first volume in this new series on Roman society and law, Saskia T. Roselaar traces
the social and economic history of the ager publicus, or public land. As the Romans …

While the importance of migration in contemporary society is universally acknowledged,
historical analyses of migration put contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a …

Migration within the Roman Empire occurred at multiple scales and was engaged in both
voluntarily and involuntarily. Because of the lengthy tradition of classical studies …

Scholarship has widely debated the question about the existence of an'Italian identity'in the
time of the Roman Republic, basing on the few sources available and on the outcomes of …

In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and
interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology …

Migration to Rome in the Imperial period has been under-researched owing to a dearth of
epigraphical and historical evidence, particularly regarding the lower classes. A new set of …

The importance of mobility in early societies now no longer needs demonstration. Recent
work over the last decades has rendered obsolete the image of populations that are for the …

It would be churlish (as well as difficult), when my own work is treated so generously in this
article, to object to its thrust too strongly. But agreement does not make for much of a …

The scale of human movement at the local and regional levels in agrarian states, called
'local migration'by Charles Tilly, can be quite extensive. I review several characteristics of …