A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic

Jane DeRose Evans is Professor of Art History at Temple University, where she is also affiliated with the Classics Department. She is the author of The Art of Persuasion: Political Propaganda from Aeneas to Brutus (1992) and The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima: Excavation Reports v.6, The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine (2006).

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can contribute to a greater understanding of the formation of the Roman Republic.
* Brings together the experiences and ideas of archaeologists from around the world, with multiple backgrounds and areas of interest
* Offers a vibrant exploration of the ways in which archaeological methods can be used to explore different elements of the Roman Republican period
* Demonstrates that the Republic was not formed in a vacuum, but was influenced by non-Latin-speaking cultures from throughout the Mediterranean region
* Enables archaeological thinking in this area to be made accessible both to a more general audience and as a valuable addition to existing discourse
* Investigates the archaeology of the Roman Republican period with reference to material culture, landscape, technology, identity and empire

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can contribute to a greater understanding of the formation of the Roman Republic.

List of Illustrations ix
 
Notes on Contributors xiv
 
Abbreviations xxi
 
Preface xxii
 
Introduction 1
Jane DeRose Evans
 
PART I Material Culture and Its Impact on Social Configuration 13
 
1 Development of Baths and Public Bathing during the Roman Republic 15
Fikret K. Yegül
 
2 Public Entertainment Structures 33
Mantha Zarmakoupi
 
3 Republican Houses 50
Shelley Hales
 
4 Tombs and Funerary Monuments 67
Sylvia Diebner
 
5 Before Sigillata: Black-Gloss Pottery and Its Cultural Dimensions 81
Roman Roth
 
6 Amphoras and Shipwrecks: Wine from the Tyrrhenian Coast at the End of the Republic and Its Distribution in Gaul 97
Fanette Laubenheimer
 
7 Coins and the Archaeology of the Roman Republic 110
Jane DeRose Evans
 
8 Weapons and the Army 123
Andrew L. Goldman
 
9 Bodies of Evidence: Skeletal Analysis in Roman Greece and Cyprus 141
Susan Kirkpatrick Smith
 
10 Population and Demographic Studies 155
Elio Lo Cascio
 
PART II Archaeology and the Landscape 167
 
11 Looking at Early Rome with Fresh Eyes: Transforming the Landscape 169
Albert J. Ammerman
 
12 Survey, Settlement and Land Use in Republican Italy 181
Helena Fracchia
 
13 Agriculture and the Environment of Republican Italy 198
Helen Goodchild
 
14 No Holiday Camp: The Roman Republican Army Camp as a Fine-Tuned Instrument of War 214
Michael Dobson
 
15 Reconstructing Religious Ritual in Italy 235
Alison B. Griffith
 
PART III Archaeology and Ancient Technology 251
 
16 The Orientation of Towns and Centuriation 253
David Gilman Romano
 
17 Scientia in Republican Era Stone and Concrete Masonry 268
Marie D. Jackson and Cynthia K. Kosso
 
18 Aqueducts and Water Supply 285
A. Trevor Hodge
 
19 Roads and Bridges 296
Ray Laurence
 
20 Villas and Agriculture in Republican Italy 309
Jeffrey A. Becker
 
21 Ports 323
Steven L. Tuck
 
PART IV The Archaeology of Identity 335
 
22 Material Culture, Italic Identities and the Romanization of Italy 337
Tesse D. Stek
 
23 The Importance of Being Elite: The Archaeology of Identity in Etruria (500-200) 354
P. Gregory Warden
 
24 Greeks, Lucanians and Romans at Poseidonia/Paestum (South Italy) 369
Maurizio Gualtieri
 
25 Central Apennine Italy: The Case of Samnium 387
Marlene Suano and Rafael Scopacasa
 
26 Early Rome and the Making of "Roman" Identity through Architecture and City Planning 406
Ingrid Edlund-Berry
 
PART V The Archaeology of Empire during the Republic 427
 
27 Material Culture and Identity in the Late Roman Republic (c. 200-c. 20) 429
Miguel John Versluys
 
28 The Archaeology of Mid-Republican Rome: The Emergence of a Mediterranean Capital 441
Penelope J.E. Davies
 
29 The Late Republican City of Rome 459
Jane DeRose Evans
 
30 Cosa 472
Stephen L. Dyson
 
31 Becoming Roman Overseas? Sicily and Sardinia in the Later Roman Republic 485
R.J.A. Wilson
 
32 The Archaeology of Africa in the Roman Republic 505
David L. Stone
 
33 Hispania: From the Roman Republic to the Reign of Augustus 522
Isabel Rodá
 
34 The Archaeology of Palestine in the Republican Period 540
J. Andrew Overman
 
35 Greece and the Roman Republic: Athens and Corinth from the Late Third Century to the Augustan Era 559
Michael C. Hoff
 
PART VI Republican Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century 579
 

36 Computer Technologies and Republican Archaeology at Pompeii 581
Michael Anderson
 
37 Archaeology and Acquisition: The Experience of Republi