Roman diasporas
Subtitle: archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman empire
By: edited by Hella Eckardt ; contributors, J.L. Barta [and 22 others]
Series: JRA supplementary series -- no. 78; Journal of Roman archaeology -- no. 78.
Publisher: Journal of Roman Archaeology
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781887829786
Subjects: Roman provinces; Romans; Emigration and immigration; Archäologie; Congresses; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft; Romeinse oudheid; Population; Migration
Notes: "The collection grew out of a two-day workshop on "Diasporas in the Roman world," held at the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, in September 2008"--P. [7].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : diasporas in the Roman world / H. Eckardt; title: Epigraphic evidence for immigrants at Rome and in Roman Britain / D. Noy; title: Finding the foreigners / H.E.M. Cool; title: Routes to slavery in the Roman world : a comparative perspective on the archaeology of forced migration / J. Webster; title: Roman Britain : immigration and material culture / M. Fulford; title: Burial, identity and migration in the Roman world / J. Pearce; title: A long way from home : diaspora communities in Roman Britain / H. Eckardt with C. Chenery [and others]; title: Skeletal evidence for health, nutritional status and malaria in Rome and the empire / R. Gowland and P. Garnsey; title: Identifying immigrants to Imperial Rome using strontium isotope analysis / K. Killgrove; title: Stable isotope and mitochondrial DNA evidence for geographic origins on a Roman estate at Vagnari (Italy) / T.L. Prowse [and others]; title: "Gleaming, white and deadly" : using lead to track human exposure and geographic origins in the Roman period in Britain / J. Montgomery [and others]; title: Tales of the frontier : diasporas on Hadrian's Wall / R. Hingley.