In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated
remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the …

This study explores the theme of Batavian ethnicity and ethnogenesis in the context of the
Early Roman Empire, starting with the current view of ethnicity as a culturally determined …

The Roman conquest of western Europe had many consequences for the local inhabitants;
although the social-political and economical circumstances have been investigated …

This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual
societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the …

Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988) explores a number of themes that bind the regional
cultural developments of mainland Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Rejecting the …

Warfare was the single biggest preoccupation of historians in antiquity. In recent decades
fresh textual interpretations, numerous new archaeological discoveries and a much broader …

The origin of this book lies in a séries offour lectures delivered in May, 1987 at the Collège
de France. The honour that was done to me by the invitation was matched by the hospitality …

Until fairly recently, archaeological research has been directed primarily toward the centers
of societies rather than their perimeters. Yet frontiers and borders, precisely because they …

Houses with a stone foundation represent a new type of building on Gotland in the middle of
the Roman Iron Age. At the same time there are other changes, for instance the number of …

Two stereotype views exist with respect to recent developments in Dutch archaeology. The
first holds that the confrontation with New Archaeology in 1968/69 signalled the beginning of …