More than just numbers?
Subtitle: the role of science in Roman archaeology
By: edited by Irene Schrüfer-Kolb ; with contributions by L. Bondioli ... [et al.].
Contributors: Roman Archaeology Conference (9th : 2010 : Oxford, England)
Series: Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series -- no. 91; International Roman Archaeology Conference series; Journal of Roman archaeology -- no. 91.; International Roman Archaeology Conference series
Publisher: Journal of Roman Archaeology
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Portsmouth, R.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781887829915
Subjects: Methodology; Excavations (Archaeology); Congresses; Archaeology; Antiquities
Notes: Papers from a session, titled "More than just numbers? science, archaeology and the Romans", of the 9th Roman Archaeology Conference held March 2010 at the University of Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Rome was not built in a day: C.P. Snow and the significance of his Rede lecture today / Irene Schrüfer-Kolb; title: From context to economy: charcoal as an archaeological interpretative tool. A case study from Pompeii (3rd c. B.C.-A.D. 79) / Robyn Veal; title: Skeletal evidence for occupational structure at the coastal towns of Portus and Velia (1st-3rd c. A.D.) / Alessandra Sperduti, Luca Bondioli and Peter Garnsey; title: Animal bones as a tool for investigating social and economic change: horse-breeding veterans in the civitas Batavorum / Maaike Groot; title: Are you what you grind? A comparison of organic residues from ceramics at two Romano-British sites / Lucy J. E. Cramp, Richard P. Evershed and Hella Eckardt; title: The geological provenance of coloured carbonate mosaic materials used at Fishbourne / Pari White, Ruth Siddall, Charlie Underwood and Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel; title: Multidisciplinary analysis of Roman horse-and-rider brooches from Bosworth / Ruth Fillery-Travis; title: The potential of the scientific analysis of Roman military equipment: the case of Syria-Palaestina / Matthew Ponting; title: Science, archaeology and the Romans, or 'What has scientific archaeology ever done for the Romans?' / A.M. Pollard.