Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242).
Contents:
Introduction. What did objects do in the Roman world? Beyond representation / Astrid Van Oyen and Martin Pitts -- Part 1. Representation reconsidered. Writing power : the material culture of literacy as representation and practice / Hella Eckardt -- Soldiers in life and death. Material culture, the military, and mortality / Rob Collins -- Gallo-Belgic wares. Objects in motion in the early Roman northwest / Martin Pitts -- Discussion. Reflections on the representational use of artefact evidence / Martin Millett -- Part 2. Standardisation. Standard time. Typologies in Roman antiquity / Alicia Jimenez -- Different similarities or similar differences? Thoughts on koine, oligopoly and regionalism / Jeroen Poblome, Senem Ozden Gercʹeker and Maarten Loopmans -- Rethinking standardisation through late antique Sagalassos ceramic production. Tradition, improvisation and fluidity / Elizabeth A. Murphy -- Discussion. Material standards / Robin Osborne -- Part 3. Matter. Finding the material in 'material culture'. Form and matter in Roman concrete / Astrid Van Oyen -- Design, function and everyday social practice. Artefacts and Roman social history / Ellen Swift -- Object ontology and cultural taxonomies. Examining the agency of style, material and objects in classification through Egyptian material culture in Pompeii and Rome / Eva Mol -- Discussion. Object-scapes. Towards a material constitution of Romanness? / Miguel John Versluys -- Part 4. Reflections. On theory-building in Roman archaeology. The potential for new approaches to materiality and practice / Andrew Gardner -- Roman things and Roman people. A cultural ecology of the Roman world / Greg Woolf.
Series:
University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology monograph series ; no. 3
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