HARRY VAN ENCKEVORT, MARK DRIESSEN, ERIK GRAAFSTAL, TOM HAZENBERG, TATIANA IVLEVA AND CAROL VAN DRIEL-MURRAY (EDS), LIMES XXV VOLUME 3: LIVING AND DYING ON THE ROMAN FRONTIER AND BEYOND. , 2024
Finds of Roman objects outside the ancient Roman Empire have long fascinated people, with such di... more Finds of Roman objects outside the ancient Roman Empire have long fascinated people, with such discoveries recorded from at least the 16th century (e.g. Laser 1980, 7), and their research has been an important field of investigation since then. Today, study of Rome’s material footprints outside the Empire is just one small scientific area of provincial Roman archaeology but the various facets of this phenomenon are of great importance for many aspects of prehistoric archaeology, while the archaeology of Roman-Barbarian relations is a critical topic because their reflections in ancient written sources are limited.
The Congress of Roman Frontier Studies has offered a perfect auditorium over the last twenty years to develop new scientific approaches and to present new data unearthed by field archaeology. We wish to give a new impetus to a longer tradition of discussions on Roman-Barbarian interaction at Limes Congresses by developing thematic sessions. Against the background of an enormous increase of archaeological data in recent decades it seems sensible to focus discussions at future meetings on particular issues. Such an approach offers more comprehensive insights to topics and can stimulate intensive and profitable discussion, as our first session ‘First Contacts between the Roman Military and the local people’ at the congress in Viminacium 2018 demonstrated. This introductory paper offers an overview of current research in relation to the topic for the Nijmegen congress: investigating processes of movement beyond the frontier. Our focus is on central European evidence, but we draw in some northern British and southern Scandinavian parallels to illuminate particular points.
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The Congress of Roman Frontier Studies has offered a perfect auditorium over the last twenty years to develop new scientific approaches and to present new data unearthed by field archaeology. We wish to give a new impetus to a longer tradition of discussions on Roman-Barbarian interaction at Limes Congresses by developing thematic sessions. Against the background of an enormous increase of archaeological data in recent decades it seems sensible to focus discussions at future meetings on particular issues. Such an approach offers more comprehensive insights to topics and can stimulate intensive and profitable discussion, as our first session ‘First Contacts between the Roman Military and the local people’ at the congress in Viminacium 2018 demonstrated. This introductory paper offers an overview of current research in relation to the topic for the Nijmegen congress: investigating processes of movement beyond the frontier. Our focus is on central European evidence, but we draw in some northern British and southern Scandinavian parallels to illuminate particular points.
The Congress of Roman Frontier Studies has offered a perfect auditorium over the last twenty years to develop new scientific approaches and to present new data unearthed by field archaeology. We wish to give a new impetus to a longer tradition of discussions on Roman-Barbarian interaction at Limes Congresses by developing thematic sessions. Against the background of an enormous increase of archaeological data in recent decades it seems sensible to focus discussions at future meetings on particular issues. Such an approach offers more comprehensive insights to topics and can stimulate intensive and profitable discussion, as our first session ‘First Contacts between the Roman Military and the local people’ at the congress in Viminacium 2018 demonstrated. This introductory paper offers an overview of current research in relation to the topic for the Nijmegen congress: investigating processes of movement beyond the frontier. Our focus is on central European evidence, but we draw in some northern British and southern Scandinavian parallels to illuminate particular points.