Author: Professor of Etruscan Studies and Italian Antiquities Romolo Augusto Staccioli
Author: Professor of Etruscan Studies and Italian Antiquities Romolo Augusto StaccioliPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Roads of the Romans
Author: Professor of Etruscan Studies and Italian Antiquities Romolo Augusto StaccioliPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Roads of Roman Italy
Author: Ray LaurencePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136823875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Roads of Roman Italy offers a complete re-evaluation of both the evidence and the interpretation of Roman land transport. The book utilises archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence for Roman communications, drawing on recent approaches to the human landscape developed by geographers. Among the topics considered are: * the relationship between the road and the human landscape * the administration and maintenance of the road system * the role of roads as imperial monuments * the economics of road construction and urban development.
Roads in the Deserts of Roman Egypt
Author: Maciej PaprockiPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789251591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Egypt under the Romans (30 BCE3rd century CE) was a period when local deserts experienced an unprecedented flurry of activity. In the Eastern Desert, a marked increase in desert traffic came from imperial prospecting/quarrying activities and caravans transporting wares to and from the Red Sea ports. In the Western Desert, resilient camels slowly became primary beasts of burden in desert travel, enabling caravaneers to lengthen daily marching distances across previously inhospitable dunes. Desert road archaeology has used satellite imaging, landscape studies and network analysis to plot desert trail networks with greater accuracy; however, it is often difficult to date roadside installations and thus assess how these networks evolved in scope and density in reaction to climatic, social and technological change. Roads in the Deserts of Roman Egypt examines evidence for desert roads in Roman Egypt and assesses Roman influence on the road density in two select desert areas: the central and southern section of the Eastern Desert and the central Marmarican Plateau and discusses geographical and social factors influencing road use in the period, demonstrating that Roman overseers of these lands adapted remarkably well to local desert conditions, improving roads and developing the trail network. Crucially, the author reconceptualises desert trails as linear corridor structures that follow expedient routes in the desert landscape, passing through at least two functional nodes attracting human traffic, be those water sources, farmlands, mines/quarries, trade hubs, military installations or actual settlements. The route of least resistance across the desert varied from period to period according to the available road infrastructure and beasts of burden employed. Roman administration in Egypt not only increased the density of local desert node networks, but also facilitated internodal connections with camel caravans and transformed the Sahara by establishing new, or embellishing existing, nodes, effectively funnelling desert traffic into discernible corridors.Significantly, not all desert areas of Egypt are equally suited for anthropogenic development, but almost all have been optimised in one way or another, with road installations built for added comfort and safety of travellers. Accordingly, the study of how Romans successfully adapted to desert travel is of wider significance to the study of deserts and ongoing expansion due to global warming.
The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain
Author: M.C. BishopPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848846150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the course of British military history during subsequent ages. ??The author starts with the pre-Roman origins of the network (many Roman roads being built over prehistoric routes) before describing how the Roman army built, developed, maintained and used it. Then, uniquely, he moves on to the post-Roman history of the roads. He shows how they were crucial to medieval military history (try to find a medieval battle that is not near one) and the governance of the realm, fixing the itinerary of the royal progresses. Their legacy is still clear in the building of 18th century military roads and even in the development of the modern road network. Why have some parts of the network remained in use throughout??The text is supported with clear maps and photographs. ??Most books on Roman roads are concerned with cataloguing or tracing them, or just dealing with aspects like surveying. This one makes them part of military landscape archaeology.
Roman Roads
Author: Anne KolbPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110638339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This volume aims to present the current state of research on Roman roads and their foundations in a combined historical and archaeological perspective. The focus is on the diverse local histories and the varying degrees of significance of individual roads and regional networks, which are treated here for the most important regions of the empire and beyond. The assembled contributions will be of interest to historians, archaeologists and epigraphers, since they tackle matters as diverse as the technical modalities of road-building, the choice of route, but also the functionality and the motives behind the creation of roads. Roman roads are further intimately related to various important aspects of Roman history, politics and culture. After all, such logistical arteries form the basis of all communication and exchange processes, enabling not only military conquest and security but also facilitating the creation of an organized state as well as trade, food supply and cultural exchange. The study of Roman roads must always be based on a combination of written and archaeological sources in order to take into account both their concrete geographical location and their respective spatial, cultural, and historical context.
Ancient Cambridgeshire, Or, An Attempt to Trace Roman and Other Ancient Roads that Passed Through the County of Cambridge
Author: Charles Cardale BabingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The Roads of the Romans
Author: Professor of Etruscan Studies and Italian Antiquities Romolo Augusto StaccioliPublisher: J Paul Getty Museum Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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An Account of the Roman Road from Allchester to Dorchester, and Other Roman Remains in the Neighbourhood:
Author: Robert HusseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine
Author: Hayim LapinPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161475887
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Hayim Lapin examines the economic geography of fourth-century Roman Galilee. Drawing on literary and archaeological material for the distribution of cities, villages, roads and other features of trade and marketing, and making use of the central-place theory, the author attempts to reconstruct models of the regional economy of northern Palestine, and to examine the degree of economic integration in the region. As a contribution to the historiography of Jews and Palestine in antiquity, Hayim Lapin argues that the economic, social and cultural landscape inhabited by residents of fourth-century Palestine was in many ways shaped by its Roman provincial administrative setting and political economy. Thus key aspects of the history of later Roman Palestine, and particularly of Jews, need to be reexamined.
The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon
Author: Thomas WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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