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).

“As a collection, the volume’s essays demonstrate the rich variety of archaeological approaches to this period and indicate their future directions. It rightfully deserves to remain a standard work for some time to come.”  (American Journal of Archaeology, July 2015, 119.3) “However, this does not detract from the overall achievement of the Companion, the scholarly content and impressive scope of which ensures that it will be of use to those studying a range of disciplines.”  (History & Archaeology, 1 October 2014)Recipient of a PROSE Awards 2013 Honorable Mention“This collection punches well above the weight of most of similar editorial enterprises. D. E. has impressively succeeded in gathering a body of work that does justice both to the complexity of the material and the diversity of the scholarly debate . . . Readers will encounter, as a rule, reliable and often insightful overviews of complex problems, with plenty of engagement with the ancient evidence and invaluable bibliographical information.”  (Journal of Classics Teaching, 1 June 2013)

• List of Illustrations ixNotes on Contributors xivAbbreviations xxiPreface xxiiIntroduction 1Jane DeRose EvansPart I Material Culture and Its Impact on Social Configuration 131 Development of Baths and Public Bathing during the Roman Republic 15Fikret K. Yegül2 Public Entertainment Structures 33Mantha Zarmakoupi3 Republican Houses 50Shelley Hales4 Tombs and Funerary Monuments 67Sylvia Diebner5 Before Sigillata: Black-Gloss Pottery and Its Cultural Dimensions 81Roman Roth6 Amphoras and Shipwrecks: Wine from the Tyrrhenian Coast at the End of the Republic and Its Distribution in Gaul 97Fanette Laubenheimer7 Coins and the Archaeology of the Roman Republic 110Jane DeRose Evans8 Weapons and the Army 123Andrew L. Goldman9 Bodies of Evidence: Skeletal Analysis in Roman Greece and Cyprus 141Susan Kirkpatrick Smith10 Population and Demographic Studies 155Elio Lo CascioPart II Archaeology and the Landscape 16711 Looking at Early Rome with Fresh Eyes: Transforming the Landscape 169Albert J. Ammerman12 Survey, Settlement and Land Use in Republican Italy 181Helena Fracchia13 Agriculture and the Environment of Republican Italy 198Helen Goodchild14 No Holiday Camp: The Roman Republican Army Camp as a Fine-Tuned Instrument of War 214Michael Dobson15 Reconstructing Religious Ritual in Italy 235Alison B. GriffithPart III Archaeology and Ancient Technology 25116 The Orientation of Towns and Centuriation 253David Gilman Romano17 Scientia in Republican Era Stone and Concrete Masonry 268Marie D. Jackson and Cynthia K. Kosso18 Aqueducts and Water Supply 285A. Trevor Hodge19 Roads and Bridges 296Ray Laurence20 Villas and Agriculture in Republican Italy 309Jeffrey A. Becker21 Ports 323Steven L. TuckPart IV The Archaeology of Identity 33522 Material Culture, Italic Identities and the Romanization of Italy 337Tesse D. Stek23 The Importance of Being Elite: The Archaeology of Identity in Etruria (500–200) 354P. Gregory Warden24 Greeks, Lucanians and Romans at Poseidonia/Paestum (South Italy) 369Maurizio Gualtieri25 Central Apennine Italy: The Case of Samnium 387Marlene Suano and Rafael Scopacasa26 Early Rome and the Making of “Roman” Identity through Architecture and City Planning 406Ingrid Edlund-BerryPart V The Archaeology of Empire during the Republic 42727 Material Culture and Identity in the Late Roman Republic (c. 200–c. 20) 429Miguel John Versluys28 The Archaeology of Mid-Republican Rome: The Emergence of a Mediterranean Capital 441Penelope J.E. Davies29 The Late Republican City of Rome 459Jane DeRose Evans30 Cosa 472Stephen L. Dyson31 Becoming Roman Overseas? Sicily and Sardinia in the Later Roman Republic 485R.J.A. Wilson32 The Archaeology of Africa in the Roman Republic 505David L. Stone33 Hispania: From the Roman Republic to the Reign of Augustus 522Isabel Rodá34 The Archaeology of Palestine in the Republican Period 540J. Andrew Overman35 Greece and the Roman Republic: Athens and Corinth from the Late Third Century to the Augustan Era 559Michael C. HoffPart VI Republican Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century 57936 Computer Technologies and Republican Archaeology at Pompeii 581Michael Anderson37 Archaeology and Acquisition: The Experience of Republican Rome 598Margaret M. MilesReferences 611Index 711