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Landscapes and the Augustan Revolution The Transformation of the Western Provinces between the Republic and the Early Empire

376 Pages 84 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 84 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book centres on the transformation of landscapes, focusing on the Western Mediterranean during the end of the Roman Republic and the Early Roman Empire. This volume brings together diverse contributions that utilise both theoretical and practical approaches from landscape studies and archaeology to examine the transitions to the Empire in the provincial landscapes of the western Roman... Read more

Augustus and the provincial Landscapes: A Global Revolution

Sergio España-Chamorro and María del Carmen Moreno Escobar

1.      Augustus and the Transformation of the Roman Road Network in the Western Provinces. An Epigraphical Perspective

Sergio España-Chamorro

2.      Sardinia and the Roman Road System: Accessibility Before and After the ‘Augustan Revolution’

Joseph Lewis

3.      The Impact of Rome on the Landscape through the Study of Burial Distribution: Cultural Influences and Identity Negotiation in Transpadana in the First Century CE.

Chiara Botturi

4.      Parametrising the Roman army's behaviour in northern Iberia

José Manuel Costa-García

5.      There is No Final One; Revolutions are Infinite – The Transformation of the Central Alentejo during the First Century BCE

Rui Mataloto, Alex Michael Elliott and Conceição Roque

6.      Landscape transitions in Tarraco (Tarragona, Spain): Further understanding of provincial communities and their integration into the Roman Empire

Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar

7.      Augustan take-off, Severan crisis: economic bases and urban sustainability of a paruum oppidum of Hispania Citerior: Los Bañales in Uncastillo (Zaragoza, Spain)

Javier Andreu Pintado and Javier Larequi Fontaneda

8.      MiReg – A comparative study of the urban-rural relationship in the western part of Hispania (the “Roman Far West”)

Florian J. Hermann, Günther Schörner and Felix Teichner

9.      The Roman city of Águilas and its hinterland: an overview from the Late Republic to the eve of the Empire

Alejandro Quevedo, Joel Bellviure and Juan de Dios Hernández García

10.  An interdisciplinary overview on Augustan North African Landscape

Iván Fumadó Ortega

11.  Changes in the landscape of Corsica between the Late Republic and the Principate

Carlos Díaz-Sánchez

12.  Transformation of the productive landscape in SW Iberian Peninsula: Economic orientation and infrastructure before and after the “Augustan Revolution”

Violeta Moreno Megías

Biography

Sergio España-Chamorro is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher in Ancient History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has held fellowships at Sapienza Università di Roma (Marie Curie Fellow), Institut Ausonius at Université Bordeaux-Montaigne (IdEx Fellow), and the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome (EEHAR-CSIC). His research focuses on Roman roads, milestones, landscape archaeology, and Latin epigraphy across Africa, Hispania, and Italy. He is also an Associate Member of Institut Ausonius and part of the African Archaeology research group.

Dr Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar is a researcher in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University, Sweden. She leads the project 'Beyond Ports: Movement and Connectivity in the Roman Mediterranean,' funded by The Swedish Research Council, which aims to redefine our understanding of Roman maritime and terrestrial networks and their socio-economic impacts. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes during Roman times, integrating advanced computing applications in archaeology, particularly spatial analysis and modelling. She actively collaborates with international scholars, enhancing interdisciplinary approaches within the field.