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JOURNAL OF ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES, hard cover cloth books, heavily illustrated, some with color plates, each volume covering a single theme within the broad fields of Roman Archaeology & history. Available individually, as a set, or on standing order (discounts for subscribers). No 1: APHRODISIAS PAPERS, C. Roueche & K.T. Erim, eds., (ISBN 1-887829-01-6, 1990), $55.75. No 2: APHRODISIAS PAPERS 2, R.R.R. Smith & K.T. Erim, eds., (1-887829-02-4), $59.75. No 3: LITERACY IN THE ROMAN WORLD, M. Beard, T. Cornell, etc. (1-887829-03-2, 1991), $39.75. No 4: LEPTIMINUS (LAMTA), N. Ben Lazreg & D.J. Mattingly (1-887829-04-0, 1992), $79.50. No 5: CAESAREA PAPERS, R.L. Vann, ed., (1-887829-05-9, 1992), $79.50. No 6: THE INSCRIBED ECONOMY, W.V. Harris, ed., (1-887829-06-7), $55.75. No 7: BIR EL KNISSIA AT CARTHAGE, S.T. Stevens (1-887829-07-5, 1993), $79.50. No 8: THE CORINTHIA IN THE ROMAN PERIOD, T. Gregory, ed., (1-887829-08-3, 1994), $55.75. No 9: FIFTH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT MOSAICS, PART 1, P. Johnson, R. Ling, D.J. Smith, eds., (1-887829-09-1, 1994), $149. PART 2, R. Ling, ed., (1-887829-00-8, 1995), $149. No 10: TEL ANAFA I, PARTS 1 (TEXT) & 2 (PLATES); FINAL REPORT, S. Herbert (1-887829-10-5, 1994), $129. No 11: ROME PAPERS, L. LaFollette, C. Pavolini & M.A. Tomei, E. Hostetter et al. & L. Ball (1-887829-11-3, 1994), $85.50. No 12: part 1: THE SEVSO TREASURE-ART HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS & INSCRIPTIONS, M.M. Mango; Methods of Manufacture & Scientific Analyses, A. Bennett (1-887829-12-1, 1994), $198.00 (part 2 in prep.). No 13: DEEP WATER ARCHAEOLOGY: A LATE ROMAN SHIP, A.M. McCann & J. Freed (1-887829-13-X, 1994), $64.50. No 14: THE ROMAN & BYZANTINE NEAR EAST, J. Humphrey, ed., (1-887829-14-8, 1995), $89.50. No 15: A ROMAN PROVINCIAL CAPITAL & ITS HINTERLAND: TARRAGONA, SPAIN, J.M. Carrete, S. Keay. M. Millett (1-887829-15-6, 1995), $89.50. No 16: LA PIERRE EN GAULE NARBONNAISE ET LES CARRIERES DU BOIS DES LENS (NIMES), J.C. Bessac (1-887829-16-4, 1996), $89.50. No 17: SUBJECT & RULER, A. Small, ed., (1-887829-17-2, 1996), $89.50. No 18: THE ROMAN ARMY IN THE EAST, D.L. Kennedy, ed., (1-887829-18-0, 1996), $89.50. Order all volumes from JRA, 1216 Bending Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103. FAX: 313-662-3240; Phone: 313-662-7132.

What is a Galilean? What were the criteria of defining a person as a Galilean - archaeologically or with respect to literary sources such as Josephus or the rabbis? What role did religion play in the process of identity formation? Twenty-two articles based on papers read at conferences at Cambridge, Wuppertal and Yale by experts from 7 countries shed light on a complex region, the pivotal geographic and cultural context of both earliest Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. In these papers, ancient Galilee emerges as a dynamic region of continuous change, in which religion, 'ethnicity', and 'identity' were not static monoliths but had to be negotiated in the context of a multiform environment subject to different influences.

Materialising the Roman Empire defines an innovative research agenda for Roman archaeology, highlighting the diverse ways in which the Empire was made materially tangible in the lives of its inhabitants. The volume explores how material culture was integral to the processes of imperialism, both as the Empire grew, and as it fragmented, and in doing so provide up-to-date overviews of major topics in Roman archaeology. Each chapter offers a critical overview of a major field within the archaeology of the Roman Empire. The book’s authors explore the distinctive contribution that archaeology and the study of material culture can make to our understanding of the key institutions and fields of activity in the Roman Empire. The initial chapters address major technologies which, at first glance, appear to be mechanisms of integration across the Roman Empire: roads, writing and coinage. The focus then shifts to analysis of key social structures oriented around material forms and activities found all over the Roman world, such as trade, urbanism, slavery, craft production and frontiers. Finally, the book extends to more abstract dimensions of the Roman world: art, empire, religion and ideology, in which the significant themes remain the dynamics of power and influence. The whole builds towards a broad exploration of the nature of imperial power and the inter-connections that stimulated new community identities and created new social divisions.

This book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province. This volume introduces the history of research into the province and the cultural changes at the beginning and end of the Roman period. The majority of the chapters are thematic, dealing with issues relating to the people of the province, their identities and ways of life. Further chapters consider the characteristics of the province they lived in, such as the economy, and settlement patterns. This Handbook reflects the new approaches being developed in Roman archaeology, and demonstrates why the study of Roman Britain has become one of the most dynamic areas of archaeology. The book will be useful for academics and students interested in Roman Britain.

Using a broad array of archaeology, art, and text, this book revolutionizes our understanding of the Roman sanctuary at Bath.

Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children in Roman culture, there has been relatively little research to date on the role and significance of the youngest children within the family and in society. This volume singles out this youngest age group, the under one-year-olds, in the first comprehensive study of infancy and earliest childhood to encompass the Roman Empire as a whole: integrating social and cultural history with archaeological evidence, funerary remains, material culture, and the iconography of infancy, it explores how the very particular historical circumstances into which Roman children were born affected their lives as well as prevailing attitudes towards them. Examination of these varied strands of evidence, drawn from throughout the Roman world from the fourth century BC to the third century AD, allows the rhetoric about earliest childhood in Roman texts to be more broadly contextualized and reveals the socio-cultural developments that took place in parent-child relationships over this period. Presenting a fresh perspective on archaeological and historical debates, the volume refutes the notion that high infant mortality conditioned Roman parents not to engage in the early life of their children or to view them, or their deaths, with indifference, and concludes that even within the first weeks and months of life Roman children were invested with social and gendered identities and were perceived as having both personhood and value within society.

This first comprehensive study of pre-Archaic Greek temple architecture combines architecture, society, and material culture.