1st Edition

Rivers and Waterways in the Roman World Empire of Water

Edited By Andrew Tibbs, Peter B. Campbell Copyright 2024
274 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Taking a broad geographical, temporal, and cross-disciplinary approach, this volume explores new and innovative research which focuses on rivers and waterways from across the Roman world. Rivers and Waterways in the Roman World brings together cross-disciplinary chapters focussing on theoretical approaches, new digital and scientific methods and analytical techniques, and related surveying... Read more

Part One: General 

1.  The Archaeology of Rivers: Processes and Patterns 

Peter B. Campbell

2. New Approaches to Roman River Finds 

Hella Eckardt & Philippa Walton

3. Geoarchaeology and Archaeology of Navigable Canals in River Deltas During the Roman Period: Technical, Methodological and Conceptual Approaches 

Ferréol Salomon & Corinne Rousse

Part Two: Mediterranean Region

4. One City, Two Tibers? Reintegrating the Supply Networks of Imperial Rome 

Maria Del Carmen Moreno Escobar & Robert Witcher

5. Understanding the Cultural Landscape of the Stella River Through Underwater Archaeology 

Massimo Capulli

6. ‘Carrying Up It All The Products Of The Seas’: The Po-Veneto Water Network and Trade in the Roman Period 

James Page 

7.  The River Ljubljanica: Evidence for the Change in Celtic Cult Practices Between the Late Iron Age and the Early Roman Period

Andrej Gaspari

8. The Nile: A Maritime Pacemaker in Roman Egypt 

Emad Khalil 

Part Three: Northern Europe and Britain 

9. River Finds from the Netherlands: An Overview 

Stefanie Hoss

10. Nodes and Networks: Military and Civilian Trade and Transport in the Roman Dutch Southwest Delta

Dianne van de Zande

11. Roman Waters? Military Usage of Waterways in 1st-Century Scotland 

Andrew Tibbs

12. Waterways and Community Identities in Early Roman Sussex: A Multiscalar and Multivariate Approach 

Scott Chaussee

13. Back and Forth: Roman River Crossings at Stirling, Scotland and Their Impact on Native Settlement 

Murray Cook 

14. Do Rivers Make Good Frontiers? Environmental Change and Military Policy Along the Roman Rhine 

Tyler Franconi

15. Rivers and Walls: The Materiality of Roman Frontier Waterscapes on Hadrian’s Wall and the Lower Danube 

Brian Buchanan & Emily Hanscam

Biography

Andrew Tibbs is an Honorary Research Fellow within archaeology at Durham University who focuses on analysis of the coast and waterways in 1st-century Roman Scotland.

Peter B. Campbell is a lecturer in archaeology at Cranfield University. His maritime archaeological research focuses on navigation with an emphasis on rivers.