Small finds and ancient social practices in the north-west provinces of the Roman Empire /
"Small finds--the stuff of everyday life--offer archaeologists a fascinating glimpse into the material lives of the ancient Romans. These objects hold great promise for unravelling the ins and outs of daily life, especially for the social groups, activities, and regions for which few written so...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Small finds and ancient social practices / Stefanie Hoss and Alissa Whitmore
- Part 1. Small finds, the body and identity. Iron footed : hobnail patterns under Roman shoes and their functional meaning / Boris Burandt
- Wearing socks in sandals : the height of Roman fashion? / Barbara Köstner
- Laying it on thick : makeup in the Roman Empire / Gisela Michel
- Of brooches and men / Stefanie Hoss
- Part 2. Religion and ritual in the Roman north-west provinces. Ordinary objects transformed : the compound natures of material culture / Mara Vejby
- A Mars with breasts from Weissenburg in Bavaria / Nicole Birkle
- Metropolitan styling : metal figurines from London and Colchester / Emma Durham
- Staring at death : the jet Gorgoneia of Roman Britain / Adam Parker
- Part 3. Artefacts, behaviours and spaces. Dining with mithras : functional aspects of pottery ensembles from Roman Mithraea / Ines Klenner
- Cloth working in the baths? Site formation processes, needles and spindle whorls in Roman bathhouse contexts / Alissa M. Whitmore
- The complexity of intramural and extramural relationships on the northern frontier of Roman Britain : a Vindolanda case study / Andrew R. Birley.