Water and the Urban Fabric: a study of towns and waterscapes in the Roman period in Britain

Rogers, Adam

doi:10.1111/j.1095-9270.2012.00347.x

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“…This idea includes all definitions of a cultural site, including archaeological remains, place naming, and water-based activities. The idea of an MCL is clearly very broad, and some recent archaeological examples of this study can include the physical structures that line waterways, such as wharves and docks (Beard, 1996; Rogers, 2013), ship wrecks and ship graveyards (Price and Richards, 2009; Richards, 2008), and even the distribution of settlements (Carter, 2012; Rogers, 2012). One of the goals of the MCL investigator is to connect activities on the land with those that occur on water, acknowledging that the water is not a human’s natural habitat, but instead signals an adaptation for its existence and therefore cannot be viewed in isolation from the culture that created it.…”

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Landscapes of movement on lowcountry rice plantations

Schwalbe

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Navigable waterways were essential to European colonization of the South Carolina Lowcountry beginning in the late 17th century. Despite early attempts by colonial leaders to keep land grants within close proximity to Charleston, colonists quickly began to establish plantations where the land was amenable for commodity production and scattered throughout the region. Consequently, colonists and enslaved individuals utilized navigable waterways by extending the built environment into the water through wharves, landings, and watercraft, as well as modifying the waterways themselves for irrigation, agriculture, and mobility. Despite the importance of waterways in the function of plantations, most landscape studies have focused on terrestrial contexts. This paper proposes that waterway assemblages should be integrated into plantation landscape studies as a means of understanding the role of movement in commodity production, surveillance, and communication to better reconstruct everyday life, focusing on the preliminary remote sensing fieldwork of two antebellum plantation waterfronts as case studies.

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Landscapes of movement on lowcountry rice plantations

Schwalbe

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…Environmental studies of the Rhine and Rhone noted above show how much conditions varied along their length and how their water was put to various uses at different points and played diverse roles at various spatial levels, all of which calls into question the notion of 'the river' as a single entity. Waterscapes defined islands beside Romano-British towns, as well as boundaries around them, and pools within them (Rogers 2012). Social control of water within Pompeii saw fountains used to construct urban sub-identities (Laurence 2006: 45ff) and to redefine the use of space within elite domestic settings (Jones and Robinson 2005).…”

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The Limitation of Water Flow and the Limitations of Postmodernism

Roskams

2019

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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This article critically evaluates how far the interpretation of archaeological evidence has been aided by the recent 'materialist turn' in social theory. This perspective, linked to the work of Bruno Latour, argues that we should give agency to not only humans but also to cultural objects and environmental processes. It thus increasingly influences archaeological interpretation. By considering how water supply has been theorised in the Roman World, then setting such theories against evidence for two wells from a landscape near York, I argue that we should retain a distinction between human agents and natural processes. The implication is that Latour's stance, by failing to provide a social context for interaction between culture and nature, is problematic for archaeological understanding. In contrast, I suggest, Marxist analytical tools provide a more vibrant way forward in explaining both past developments and present climate crises.

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“…Hill and Rowsome 2011; Leary and Butler 2012), Winchester (e.g. Ford and Teague 2011), and other towns (Rogers 2012). These actions altered places and formed an important part of the urban reality with an impact on the way in which these landscapes were used and experienced.…”

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The Development of Towns

Rogers

2014

Oxford Handbooks Online

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This chapter examines urban foundation and development in the Roman period and the issues relating to town origins and purpose in Britain. It focuses on the chartered towns and reviews relating to the three main types of urban settlement—the coloniae, municipia and civitas-capitals—and the practice of settlement categorization. The chapter also contextualizes debate on urban development by discussing aspects of the history of approach to the documentation and interpretation of Roman town foundation in Britain. It discusses the practicalities of town construction and then moves on to emphasizing the need for Roman urban studies to embrace archaeological theory in order to avoid normative assumptions in interpreting urban material and town life. In particular it argues for greater recognition of the relationship between the development of urban spaces, the lived experience within towns, and the existing significance attached to places and landscapes in prehistory.

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Water and the Urban Fabric: a study of towns and waterscapes in the Roman period in Britain

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

Landscapes of movement on lowcountry rice plantations

Landscapes of movement on lowcountry rice plantations

The Limitation of Water Flow and the Limitations of Postmodernism

The Development of Towns

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