Description
Uses artefact analyses to investigate complex spatial and community relationships inside the walls of early Roman imperial military bases.
About the Author
Penelope Allison is Reader in Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester. She has been teaching ancient history and archaeology for nearly thirty years and has also held a number of research posts, including an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship at the Australian National University, Australian Bicentennial Fellowship in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and Visiting Fellowship at St John's College, University of Durham. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, she has written and edited several groundbreaking books on Roman archaeology and household archaeology, including The Archaeology of Household Activities (1999), Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture, and The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii III: The Finds, A Contextual Study (2006).
Reviews
'... this is a very important study which provides considerable evidence for the ways in which all members of military communities inhabited spaces of forts and fortresses.' Andrew Gardner, Antiquity
Book Information
ISBN 9781107039360
Author Penelope M. Allison
Format Hardback
Page Count 507
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1150g
Dimensions(mm) 252mm * 181mm * 27mm