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The Archaeology of Roman Portugal contributes to the wider debate
on Roman imperialism and expansionism, by bringing to the fore a
much-underrepresented area of the Roman empire, at least in
English-language scholarship: its westernmost edge in modern day
Portugal. Highlighting the perspective from Roman Portugal
contributes to our understanding of the Roman empire, through
presenting both an extraordinary landscape in the sense of economic
opportunities (ocean resources, marble and metal mining), and also
settlement history. The volume presents new data and insights from
both archaeology and ancient history, discussing their significance
for our understanding of Roman expansion and imperialism. A key
goal of the volume is to discuss how the Portuguese panorama
compares to other areas of the Iberian peninsula, and to better
integrate Portuguese scholarship in the academic debate on the
Mediterranean Roman world, and to contextualise it firmly within
the wider Iberian and Western Mediterranean. The volume brings
together an internationally diverse team of scholars in archaeology
and ancient history from Portugal, Spain, Germany, the UK, the US,
the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. It explicitly discusses
different national and disciplinary research traditions and
historical frameworks in order to assess the potential of
integrating best practices in archaeological approaches and
methodology.
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation
of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of
ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a
comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses the
patterns of transformation in widely differing imperial contexts in
the ancient world. Bringing together a range of studies by an
international team of scholars, the volume shows that empires were
dynamic, diverse, and experimental polities, and that their success
or failure was determined by a combination of forceful
interventions, as well as the new possibilities for those dominated
by empires to collaborate and profit from doing so. By highlighting
the processes that occur in rural and peripheral landscapes, the
volume demonstrates that the archaeology of these non-urban and
literally eccentric spheres can provide an important contribution
to our understanding of ancient empires. The 'bottom up' approach
to the study of ancient empires is crucial to understanding how
these remarkable socio-political organisms could exist and persist.
The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes examines the transformation
of rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of
ancient empires in the Near East and Mediterranean. Through a
comparative approach to archaeological data, it analyses the
patterns of transformation in widely differing imperial contexts in
the ancient world. Bringing together a range of studies by an
international team of scholars, the volume shows that empires were
dynamic, diverse, and experimental polities, and that their success
or failure was determined by a combination of forceful
interventions, as well as the new possibilities for those dominated
by empires to collaborate and profit from doing so. By highlighting
the processes that occur in rural and peripheral landscapes, the
volume demonstrates that the archaeology of these non-urban and
literally eccentric spheres can provide an important contribution
to our understanding of ancient empires. The 'bottom up' approach
to the study of ancient empires is crucial to understanding how
these remarkable socio-political organisms could exist and persist.
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