Dress Accessories of Late Antiquity in Jordan

Romans, barbarians and foederati: New biomolecular data and a possible region of origin for “Headless Romans” and other burials from Britain

“…Dress accessories buried with individual 7 (Figure 3) match typologies found in Danubian provinces dating to the 3 rd -4 th Cent. AD (Eger, 2014). Both SK6 and SK7 had childhood isotope very similar to the individuals from Archiud indicating these individuals originated from a region near Archiud or a similar region in the Eastern European lowlands.…”

“…The "route of the Goths" was used by the Empire for trade and military between the lower Danube River and the northern shore of the Black Sea, and has been attributed with the spread of the Black Sea culture/fashions across the Roman Empire (Bursche, 2008). Cross-bow brooches and fibulae matching the Rhine Valley and Danubian (Carpathian Basin) typologies associated with barbarian groups have been found at Late Roman sites in Jordan (Eger, 2014) and Serbia (Petkovic, 2011). The cross-bow fibula are believed to be associated with those in service to the Roman Empire (foederati) and also acted as status symbols for elites outside the territory of the Roman Empire (Diaconescu, 1999: pg 203-217;Petkovic, 2011: pg 123).…”

“…Figure 3. Burial artefacts found in Romano-British "exotic" burials (left) and analogous cultural typologies from burial artefacts in the Carpathian Mountain regions of Eastern Europe (right) (Tejral, 2000;Booth et al, 2010;Petkovic, 2011;Eger, 2014;Eckardt et al, 2015;Helm, 2017).…”