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Archaeological interpretation is an imaginative act. Stratigraphy
and artefacts do not tell us what the past was like; that is the
task of the archaeologist. The diverse group of contributors to
this volume address the relationship between archaeology and
imagination through the medium of historical fiction and fictive
techniques, both as consumers and as producers. The
fictionalisation of archaeological research is often used to
disseminate the results of scholarly or commercial archaeology
projects for wider public outreach. Here, instead, the authors
focus on the question of what benefits fiction and fictive
techniques, as inspiration and method, can bring to the practice of
archaeology itself. The contributors, a mix of archaeologists,
novelists and other artists, advance a variety of theoretical
arguments and examples to advance the case for the value of a
reflexive engagement between archaeology and fiction. Themes
include the similarities and differences in the motives and methods
of archaeologists and novelists, translation, empathy, and the need
to humanise the past and diversify archaeological narratives. The
authors are sensitive to the epistemological and ethical issues
surrounding the influence of fiction on researchers and the
incorporation of fictive techniques in their work. Sometimes
dismissed as distracting just-so stories, or even as dangerously
relativistic narratives, the use of fictive techniques has a long
history in archaeological research and examples from the scholarly
literature on many varied periods and regions are considered. The
volume sets out to bring together examples of these disparate
applications and to focus attention on the need for explicit
recognition of the problems and possibilities of such approaches,
and on the value of further research about them.
Archaeological interpretation is an imaginative act. Stratigraphy
and artefacts do not tell us what the past was like; that is the
task of the archaeologist. The diverse group of contributors to
this volume address the relationship between archaeology and
imagination through the medium of historical fiction and fictive
techniques, both as consumers and as producers. The
fictionalisation of archaeological research is often used to
disseminate the results of scholarly or commercial archaeology
projects for wider public outreach. Here, instead, the authors
focus on the question of what benefits fiction and fictive
techniques, as inspiration and method, can bring to the practice of
archaeology itself. The contributors, a mix of archaeologists,
novelists and other artists, advance a variety of theoretical
arguments and examples to advance the case for the value of a
reflexive engagement between archaeology and fiction. Themes
include the similarities and differences in the motives and methods
of archaeologists and novelists, translation, empathy, and the need
to humanise the past and diversify archaeological narratives. The
authors are sensitive to the epistemological and ethical issues
surrounding the influence of fiction on researchers and the
incorporation of fictive techniques in their work. Sometimes
dismissed as distracting just-so stories, or even as dangerously
relativistic narratives, the use of fictive techniques has a long
history in archaeological research and examples from the scholarly
literature on many varied periods and regions are considered. The
volume sets out to bring together examples of these disparate
applications and to focus attention on the need for explicit
recognition of the problems and possibilities of such approaches,
and on the value of further research about them.
The Changing Landscapes of Rome's Northern Hinterland presents a
new regional history of the middle Tiber valley as a lens through
which to view the emergence and transformation of the city of Rome
from 1000 BC to AD 1000. Setting the ancient city within the
context of its immediate territory, the authors reveal the diverse
and enduring links between the metropolis and its hinterland. At
the heart of the volume is a detailed consideration of the results
of a complete restudy of the pioneering South Etruria Survey (c.
1955-1970), one of the earliest and most influential Mediterranean
landscape projects. Between 1998 and 2002, an international team
based at the British School at Rome conducted a comprehensive
restudy of the material and documentary archive generated by the
South Etruria Survey. The results were supplemented with a number
of other published and unpublished sources of archaeological
evidence to create a database of around 5000 sites across southern
Etruria and the Sabina Tiberina, extending in date from the Bronze
Age, through the Etruscan/Sabine, Republican and imperial periods,
to the middle ages. Analysis and discussion of these data have
appeared in a series of interim articles published over the past
two decades; the present volume offers a final synthesis of the
project results. The chapters include the first detailed assessment
of the field methods of the South Etruria Survey, an extended
discussion of the use of archaeological legacy data, and new
insights into the social and economic connectivities between Rome
and the communities of its northern hinterland across two
millennia. The volume as a whole demonstrates how the
archaeological evidence generated by landscape surveys can be used
to rewrite narrative histories, even those based on cities as
familiar as ancient Rome. Includes contributions by Martin Millett,
Simon Keay and Christopher Smith, and a preface by Andrew
Wallace-Hadrill.
This text presents the proceedings of the Seventh Theoretical Roman
Archaeology Conference held at the University of Nottingham in
April 1997.
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