Story-telling in Roman archaeology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2130867
AutoresLouise Revell (autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen9
Número1
Páginas44-47
Fecha de publicación2002-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArchaeological Dialogues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1380-2038 • E-ISSN: 1478-2294
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s138020380000204x
OpenAlexW1976893744
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas73

It is a rare opportunity to be invited to comment upon two papers at the same time: the temptation is then to either search for common threads, or to directly compare them. Individually, both Slofstra and Woolf offer an interesting perspective on the process of Romanisation in Gaul and the Rhine delta, but taken together, they become a dialogue on how we tell the story of Romanisation: the problems and conventions inherent within it. Both Slofstra and Woolf are telling the story of cultural change. Although they take opposing stands on whether to call this Romanisation or not, essentially it is the same story, and it requires the same techniques for telling it. As change, it can be viewed as a process taking place over time, and which therefore requires a temporal framework, and (like all good stories) a beginning, a middle and an end. These are not unproblematic, and the choices made (or in some cases enforced) are not without consequence

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Romanization · Temptation · Theology · Visual arts · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy