1st Edition
The Roman Object Revolution Objectscapes and Intra-Cultural Connectivity in Northwest Europe
By Martin Pitts
Copyright 2019
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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Archaeologists working in northwest Europe have long remarked on the sheer quantity and standardisation of objects unearthed from the Roman period, especially compared with earlier eras. What was the historical significance of this boom in standardised objects? With a wide and ever-changing spectrum of innovative objects and styles to choose from, to what extent did the choices made by people in... Read more
1. Standardised objects as historical agents, 2. The roles of objects in Later Iron Age societies, 3. The object revolution in the Roman West, 4. Objectscapes, cityscapes and colonial encounters, 5. Local elites, imperial culture and provincial objectscapes, 6. Historical change and the Roman inter-artefactual domain
Biography
Martin Pitts is Associate Professor in Roman Archaeology at the University of Exeter. His research deals with late Iron Age and early Roman northwest Europe, with emphasis on the consumption and circulation of objects (especially pottery), and how these can inform understandings of historical globalising processes. He is co-author of several books and articles, including Alien Cities: Consumption and the origins of urbanism in Roman Britain (with Dominic Perring, 2013), Globalisation and the Roman World (with Miguel John Versluys, 2015), and Materialising Roman Histories (with Astrid Van Oyen, 2017).
