Title: Archaeology of the Roman Empire :
Authors: Higham, N. J.; Jones, Barri.
Date: 2001
Publisher: Archaeopress,
Physical description: x, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Contents: The anavionenses / Anthony Birley -- Reginald Bainbrigg, scholemaister, and his stones / Ben Edwards -- Living on the frontier : Iron Age Roman transitions in South-West Scotland / Richard Gregory -- The relative information value of aerial photography and geophysical survey / W.S. Hanson and Lorna Sharpe -- The edge of empire : Late Prehistoric and Romano-British settlement in North West England / Mike Nevell -- "Agricolan" is an overworked adjective / David Shotter -- The Roman gask project, interim report 1995-2000 / David Woolliscroft -- Observations on the Roman military diploma of 14 April AD 135 from Wroxeter / Paul Holder -- Excavations at Fishbourne Roman palace 1995-1999 / John Manley and David Rudkin -- A difficult Roman road in deepest Wales / Bill Putnam and Hugh Toller -- Cambrian antiquity : the Romanists / Hugh Toller -- The River Dee and the Deva harbour / Adrian Waddelove. Some myths of public service / John Walker -- PPG 16 and the Romano-British landscape of Kent / John Williams -- The Roman destruction of Phalasarna / Elpida Hadjidaki -- "Romans always conquer" : some evidence of ethnic identity on Rome's eastern frontier / John Healey -- Khibert Khaw : a Roman town and fort in northern Jordan / David Kennedy -- Philo of Byblos and the Phoenician history : ethnicity and culture in Hadrianic Lebanon / Henry MacAdam -- Floodwater farming : Roman imperialism and desertification in Libya and Jordan / Graeme Barker -- Euesperides, the first Benghazi / Paul Bennett, Andrew Wilson and Ahmed Buzaian -- Romano-Libyan agriculture in the Tripolitanian predesert / Chris Hunt and Dave Gilbertson -- Farming the desert : two contrasting Libyan case-studies / David Mattingly. Developing aerial survey / Bob Bewley -- Aspects of Roman gold-mining / David Bird -- Roman force pumps / Keith Maude -- Roman stone-working methods in the eastern desert of Egypt / Denys Stocks -- An inlaid iron brooch from Rhyn Park / Janet Webster -- Earth, fire and water : thte making and marketing of Roman Samian ware / Peter Webster -- Censers, incense and donors in the cult of Mithras / Joanna Bird -- Bancornaburg : re-visiting Bangor-is-y-coed / Nick Higham -- Early Christian archaeology in Europe / Michael Jones -- Bacchus triumphs in the North Downs : the Polesden Lacey sarcophagus / Tom Rasmussen -- Image and symbol in Severan state portrait cameos / Val Worden.
Subject headings (LCSH): Archaeology--Methodology.; Great Britain--Antiquities, Roman.; Roman provinces.; Romans--Great Britain; Rome--Antiquities.; Rome--Civilization.; Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.