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Materialising Roman Histories (Paperback)

Ancient History > Rome & the Roman Provinces P&S History > Archaeology > Archaeological Method & Theory

Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology Monographs
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9781785706769
Published: 11th July 2017
Casemate UK Academic

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The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s international contributors question the traditional dominance of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, whereby objects have come to stand for social phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in this volume examine what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent. In challenging the dominance of representation, and exploring themes such as the impact of standardisation and the role of material agency, Materialising Roman History is essential reading for anyone studying material culture from the Roman world (and beyond).

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