A false start? The roman urbanization of Western Europe

Jones, R. F. J.

doi:10.1080/00438243.1987.9980023

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“…An effect of Romanization on IB is moreover suggested by its distinct chronological and qualitative developments in Continental Europe and Britain. Britain was only partially included in the Roman Empire around the first half of the first century AD, and one century after the conquest of Gaul [ 54 ], and the Romanization process was for the most part limited to main urban centers [ 55 ]. Accordingly, the contrast observed between these two areas with regard to the type and number of IB could be at least partially related, beyond differences in archaeological coverage, to distinct processes and effects characterizing the Romanization of these regions.…”

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Patterns of Irregular Burials in Western Europe (1st-5th Century A.D.)

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BackgroundIrregular burials (IB—burials showing features that contrast with the majority of others in their geographic and chronological context) have been the focus of archaeological study because of their relative rarity and enigmatic appearance. Interpretations of IB often refer to supposed fear of the dead or to social processes taking place in time-specific contexts. However, a comprehensive and quantitative analysis of IB for various geographical contexts is still lacking, a fact that hampers any discussion of these burials on a larger scale.MethodsHere, we collected a bibliographic dataset of 375 IB from both Britain and Continental Europe, altogether spanning a time period from the 1st to the 5th century AD. Each burial has been coded according to ten dichotomous variables, further analyzed by means of chi-squared tests on absolute frequencies, non-metric multidimensional scaling, and cluster analysis.ResultsEven acknowledging the limits of this study, and in particular the bias represented by the available literature, our results point to interesting patterns. Geographically, IB show a contrast between Britain and Continental Europe, possibly related to historical processes specific to these regions. Different types of IB (especially prone depositions and depositions with the cephalic extremity displaced) present a series of characteristics and associations between features that permit a more detailed conceptualization of these occurrences from a socio-cultural perspective that aids to elucidate their funerary meaning.Conclusions and SignificanceAltogether, the present work stresses the variability of IB, and the need to contextualize them in a proper archaeological and historical context. It contributes to the discussion of IB by providing a specific geographic and chronological frame of reference that supports a series of hypotheses about the cultural processes possibly underlying their occurrence.

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“…Rick Jones (1987b) and Martin Millett (1990: 72-73) have touched on, but in relation to the tribal capitals rather than the coloniae. Where do the influences derive from and through which mechanism (Blagg 1990;Blagg and Millett (eds) 1990)?…”

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Theory, Practice, and Research in an Urban Unit: A Personal Perspective

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1995

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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“…Roman towns in Europe were smaller and further apart than towns lelsewhere in the empire, and the functions they performed differed very little from those performed by vici. Roman urbanism in Europe was largely a cultural and administrative phenomenon and one that rapidly withered as soon as the classical urban apogee passed (Jones 1987). Equally, European urbanisat ion between 1500 and 1800 AD was marked b y a peculiarly low degree of hierarchy by comparison with urbanism in China, Japan or Russia (de Vries 1984).…”

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RETHINKING the OPPIDA

Woolf

1993

Oxford J Archaeology

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The appearance of large sites known as oppida, and generally qual$ed as urban or proto-urban, is a central feature of all accounts of late Iron Age Europe. But the category of oppidum groups together sites that are very diverse in morphology, scale and Jicnction, and excludes other sites that share many of the same features, but lack fortijications and/or are located outside the supposed heartland of the oppida civilisation. Few oppida seem to be at the centre of differentiated settlement networks of the kind usually associated with urbanism, and few display a higher level of intra-site zoning than do rural farms or hamlets. A reassessment of late La T h e settlement, focusing on its technological and cultural unity, contributes to an analysis of late prehistoric Europe which stresses the contrasts between the social trajectories of temperate European and Mediterranean societies.

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A false start? The roman urbanization of Western Europe

Cited by 48 publications

References 8 publications

Patterns of Irregular Burials in Western Europe (1st-5th Century A.D.)

Patterns of Irregular Burials in Western Europe (1st-5th Century A.D.)

Theory, Practice, and Research in an Urban Unit: A Personal Perspective

RETHINKING the OPPIDA

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