Bioarchaeology in the Roman Empire

Killgrove, Kristina

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_946

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“…9 Cummings’s initial research is limited to late Roman Britain, but in a subsequent conference paper she has situated her work in comparison to others researching various sites throughout the Roman world, ranging from the first or second century onwards (Cummings 2013; cf. Killgrove 2018a and 2018b for a more general overview of the use of stable isotopic analyses for the Roman world).…”

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“… 10. This literary model is more fully developed in her doctoral thesis. Similarly, Killgrove (2018a) recognizes the importance of such a balancing of bioarchaeological analysis and ancient literary analysis, though she does not develop such a model nor refer to Cummings’s work: ‘Although classical archaeology was founded on an historical tradition in which material remains were mainly used to illustrate the vast body of Latin literature, today’s Roman bioarchaeologists ask their own questions about what life was like in ancient times, in part to provide a history to those segments of society that did not merit inclusion in elite writing’. Unlike Cummings, Killgrove suggests a dichotomy between literary and material cultures of the Roman world, specifically along socio-economic lines.…”

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“… 7. Recent and helpful overviews of such bioarchaeological research is offered by Killgrove (2018a, 2018b). Killgrove observes that stable isotope analysis is applied to determining diet, migration patterns and disease among populations.…”

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“… 8. Cf. Budd, Chenery, Montgomery and Evans 2003; Killgrove (2018a: 876) aptly uses the metaphor of palimpsests to make this point: ‘Much of a person’s life history is written on his or her bones. Skeletal remains of past populations are palimpsests of information about the behaviors people engaged in during their lives.’ …”

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Roman Diet and Meat Consumption: Reassessing Elite Access to Meat in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10

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Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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A persistent exegetical tradition exists linking the Pauline controversy over the consumption of idol meat in the Corinthian correspondence to social and economic assumptions about the Roman world. Specifically, there is the assumption that access to meat was limited to the elite within the Roman world. According to this exegetical tradition, the lower classes only had access to meat through public religious festivals or as derivative through cultic sacrifice by means of the marketplace, resulting in the view that non-elites were sustained on a diet of legumes, grains and wine. Roman access to meat along such class demarcations, furthermore, is founded upon an economic dichotomy of elite and non-elite. This article challenges these social assumptions regarding meat consumption in, especially, Corinth by engaging recent scholarship that re-evaluates Roman diet in regard to access to meat and other animal products. Specifically, methods in archaeological science (especially stable isotope analysis) are used to supplement literary reassessments. What arises is a new picture of Roman diet, wherein meat consumption was not limited to the elite, but was prevalent in nearly all levels of Roman society. With this fresh perspective on Roman dietary practices, Paul’s comments in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10 must be re-evaluated.

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“…The distance of mobility and evident regions from which migrants emigrated however, are variable. The studies of Prowse et al (2007) at Isola Sacra and Killgrove (2010aKillgrove ( , b, c, 2013Killgrove ( , 2014 and Killgrove and Montgomery (2016) at Casal Bertone and Castellaccio Europarco suggest a much more geographically diverse nature of mobility to the area around Rome in comparison to the more regionally-local mobility evident at Vagnari in southern Italy, though mobility from evidently distant locales was evident at this site as well (Prowse et al 2010;Emery et al 2018a, b). This diversity of mobility patterns brings into question the nature of migration to larger cosmopolitan centres, such as Rome, in comparison to mobility to more rural and provincial settings, such as those at Vagnari and Velia.…”

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