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View article: Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe
Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe Open
Price and Jaffe (2023) argue that acknowledging failure humanises the past. It can also serve as a lens through which to reflect on archaeological reasoning. Here, we turn to the Roman world, and the frontier of northern Britain in particu…
View article: One City, Two Tibers? Reintegrating the Supply Networks of Imperial Rome
One City, Two Tibers? Reintegrating the Supply Networks of Imperial Rome Open
The Tiber constituted a fundamental axis of transport and trade to Rome that made possible its subsistence and development in antiquity. However, different trajectories of research in the upper/middle and lower Tiber valley have led to an …
View article: AQY volume 97 issue 392 Cover and Front matter
AQY volume 97 issue 392 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Women in <i>Antiquity</i>: An Analysis of Gender and Publishing in a Global Archaeology Journal
Women in <i>Antiquity</i>: An Analysis of Gender and Publishing in a Global Archaeology Journal Open
Studies of archaeology publishing demonstrate a persistent imbalance in the ratio of male and female authors. We present an analysis of the world archaeology journal Antiquity using submissions and editorial decisions data (2015–2020). We …
View article: The Roman Hinterland Project: Integrating Archaeological Field Surveys around Rome and Beyond
The Roman Hinterland Project: Integrating Archaeological Field Surveys around Rome and Beyond Open
This article presents the background to and prospects for a new initiative in archaeological field survey and database integration. The Roman Hinterland Project combines data from the Tiber Valley Project, Roman Suburbium Project, and the …
View article: The Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland: The British School at Rome’s Tiber Valley Project
The Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland: The British School at Rome’s Tiber Valley Project Open
The Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland presents a new regional history of the middle Tiber valley as a lens through which to view the emergence and transformation of the city of Rome from 1000 BC to AD 1000. Setting the anci…
View article: The Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland
The Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland Open
The Changing Landscapes of Rome’s Northern Hinterland presents a new regional history of the middle Tiber valley as a lens through which to view the emergence and transformation of the city of Rome from 1000 BC to AD 1000. Setting the anci…
View article: Patterns of Etruscan Urbanism
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This paper examines the patterns of Etruscan urbanism by the innovative use of newly available rural data, employing rank size, and indices of centralization. The detailed case study looks at the development of urbanism of pre-Roman Etruri…
View article: Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation
Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation Open
The transformation of the material traces of the past into archaeological narrative is a fundamentally creative act. But what happens when archaeologists engage with the work and methods of historical novelists and filmmakers? Do they risk…
View article: From the wisdom of old age to a wider debate
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View article: EDITORIAL
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When John F. Kennedy described Washington, D.C. as a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm, it was presumably not intended as a compliment. Nonetheless, like all good quotes, it captures a wider truth—a capital city as the pivot o…
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Thirty years ago on a London street, an excited young teenager stood in a queue the likes of which he had never previously seen. The wait, however, was worth it, for the reward was the opportunity to see a small detachment of warriors from…
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Both Antiquity and archaeology have changed immeasurably since O.G.S. Crawford penned this journal's first editorial in 1927. The discipline has grown in size and sophistication, and has achieved professional status and public recognition.…
View article: New Book Chronicle
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At the end of Antiquity ’s ninetieth year, this issue of NBC looks at a selection of new books through the eyes of Antiquity ’s founder: O.G.S. Crawford. He died exactly 60 years ago, but were he to be resurrected in 2017, what would he ma…
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Is the era of globalisation on the wane or on the cusp of a new phase of extraordinary expansion? US president Trump's abandonment of trade agreements and the rise of protectionism coincide with China's ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, an unpre…
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Reflecting on his motivations for writing a history of tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari (2017: 68) observes that: “historians are asked to examine the actions of our ancestors so that we can repeat their wise decisions and avoid their mistakes.…
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It is no surprise that archaeologists should be drawn to the study of ancient urbanism. As markers of social complexity, cities are key to understanding the organisation and development of human societies. But why were people attracted to …
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For this issue of New Book Chronicle, we don lifejackets and head out on, and under, the high seas to review recent volumes on aspects of maritime and underwater archaeology. Along the way are tales of pirates and the odd Sherman tank, but…
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It is understandable, perhaps inevitable, that archaeologists should be attracted to ideas of memory and of the ‘past in the past’. But other disciplines—anthropology, history, philosophy, sociology and beyond—also demonstrate a similar fa…
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Migration is rarely out of the news, and the movement of people has become one of the most politically charged issues of the day. At the time of writing, Pope Francis is embroiled in a spat with presidential hopeful Donald Trump over the i…
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The books considered in this instalment of NBC raise questions about how we represent the past through words and images. In particular, five of the seven are either explicitly or implicitly biographical, exploring a diverse spectrum of liv…
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With over half of the world's population living in cities, urbanism is one of the defining characteristics of the contemporary age. In the past, by contrast, most people lived scattered in villages and rural settlements. Yet pre-industrial…
View article: Agricultural Production in Roman Italy
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This chapter considers the practice and organization of agricultural production in Roman Italy drawing on textual, archaeological, and ethnoarchaeological evidence. As well as reviewing the types of crops cultivated and animals husbanded, …
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If you are reading this instalment of NBC while eating a sandwich at your keyboard, you may conclude that we have lost touch with the ways in which people produced and consumed food in the past. The books under review here—on palaeoethnobo…