Journal of Roman pottery studies. Volume 17 / edited by Steven Wallis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Willis, Steven, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pottery, Roman.

Pottery, Roman--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2018.

Summary:

As a result of recent methodological and theoretical developments in approaches to the human body in archaeological contexts, the theme has recently become a particularly dynamic research area. This volume, building on the Neolithic Studies Group conference 2014, captures the variety of debates developing across research into the Neolithic bodies of the Near East and Europe. Papers are divided into three themes: living bodies, the body in death, and the representation of the body. In the first section, papers present new research assessing skeletal evidence alongside new interpretations of the body in the Southern British Neolithic to examine the lived experience of the body in the Neolithic. The second theme illustrates the variety of approaches arising from the study of death and burial, focusing on the many different ways the dead were treated during the Neolithic. The third theme examines the body as it is represented in Neolithic art, through artifacts and the stone stele found in Western and Mediterranean Europe. The volume begins with an introduction to the recent developments in the field and concludes with a discussion chapter from Julian Thomas, which sets an agenda for future studies on this theme. The approaches taken in the papers presented here bridge many different methodologies, ranging from theoretical treatises to methodological debates. Overall, the volume presents the study of the body in the Neolithic as a contested site, at which overlapping research themes meet, and addresses the insights provided by thinking about past bodies.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

Editorial Board

Contributors to this Journal

Editorial

Obituaries

David Peacock by Roberta Tomber

Cathy Tester by Jo Caruth

Phil Jones

1. The import and distribution of eastern amphorae within the Rhine provinces: Tyler V. Franconi

2. Roman pottery in ritual contexts: types, fabrics and manipulations: Constanze Höpken and Manuel Fiedler

3. An early Romano-British double flue pottery kiln at Church Road, Snape, Suffolk: Antony R.R. Mustchin and Andrew Peachey, with contributions by John Summers

4. Roman pottery groups from the excavation of pits, a cremation and other features at Sholden, Kent: Rob Perrin with a contribution by J. M. Mills

5. Bread and circuses, cutlets and sausages? Romano-British prefabricated ovens and ceramic baking plates: Jane Evans, with Alison Heke and Andrew Peachey

6. Curved ceramic firedogs in the western Low Lands (Flanders and the western Netherlands) in the Roman era: Jeroen van Zoolingen

7. A Late Iron Age and early Roman pottery assemblage from Leybourne Grange, West Malling, Kent: Edward Biddulph with a contribution by Sean Patrick Quinn

8. Fifth and sixth century African Red Slip and Late Roman C wares from Ossonoba (Faro, Algarve, Portugal): the assemblage from Horta da Misericórdia: Edgar Fernandes

9. Pottery Retrospectives

Beth Richardson

Peter Webster

10. Reviews

The Arverni and Roman Wine. Roman Amphorae from Late Iron Age sites in the Auvergne (Central France): Chronology, fabrics and stamps by Matthew Loughton, 2014: Reviewed by Robin P. Symonds

Insight from Innovation: New light on archaeological ceramics, edited by E. Sibbesson, B. Jervis and S. Coxon, 2016: Reviewed by Edward Biddulph

Résumés (Abstracts in French).

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785709371

1785709372

9781785709357

1785709356