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Tacitus: Opera Maiora (2024)
Book Chapter
Malloch, S. (in press). Tacitus: Opera Maiora. In The Oxford Guide to the Transmission of the Latin Classics

Different models of urbanisation: early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘proto-urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria (2024)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2024). Different models of urbanisation: early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘proto-urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria. In M. Frangipane (Ed.), The ‘city’ across time: Emergence, developments, and social, economic political, cultural and health impact: (Rome, 8-10 June 2022) (95-115). Rome: Bardi Edizioni

Many scholars have proposed criteria for the identification of urban settlements, but such criteria are often premised on their own views of how and why towns emerged. I critically examine the use of the term ‘proto-urban’, generally employed to desc... Read More about Different models of urbanisation: early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘proto-urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria.

Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West (2023)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A., & Woudhuysen, G. (2023). Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West. In A. Mullen, & G. Woudhuysen (Eds.), Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Social dimensions of Latinization (2023)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2023). Social dimensions of Latinization. In A. Mullen (Ed.), Social factors in the Latinization of the Roman West. Oxford University Press (OUP)

L’Atlante della Paletnologia del Reggiano nel suo contesto storico europeo (2023)
Book Chapter
PEARCE, M. (2023). L’Atlante della Paletnologia del Reggiano nel suo contesto storico europeo. In I. Tirabassi, R. Macellari, & G. Adriano Rossi (Eds.), Atlante di Paletnologia del Reggiano di don Gaetano Chierici (21-33). Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Antiche Provincie Modenesi - Sezione di Reggio Emilia

Questo capitolo si pone l’obiettivo di collocare nella storia dello sviluppo dell’illustrazione archeologica in Europa nei secoli XVIII e XIX il progetto di Gaetano Chierici di pubblicare un Atlante paletnologico, e di contestualizzarlo tra le pubbli... Read More about L’Atlante della Paletnologia del Reggiano nel suo contesto storico europeo.

Depictions of bone ‘spatulate’ strips and a few thoughts about their function (2023)
Book Chapter
Willi, A. (2023). Depictions of bone ‘spatulate’ strips and a few thoughts about their function. In T. Grüll (Ed.), Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments. Text, Image, Message. Archaeopress

This contribution offers the identification of so-called bone ‘spatulate’ strips in two Roman funerary reliefs. This increases the number of known depictions to four, allowing for a reassessment of the iconographic evidence for this enigmatic Roman t... Read More about Depictions of bone ‘spatulate’ strips and a few thoughts about their function.

Earliest Western References to Islam (2023)
Book Chapter
Woudhuysen, G. (2023). Earliest Western References to Islam. In Christian-Muslim Relations, Primary Sources 600-1500 (264-270). Bloomsbury Publishing

Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology (2023)
Book Chapter
Bowden, W. (in press). Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology. In Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity. London: Taylor and Francis Group

This paper argues that late antique archaeologists’ focus on space (particularly urban space) reflects the origins of late antique archaeology in challenges to paradigms of “decline” as well as the broader disciplinary histories of classical archaeol... Read More about Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology.

Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC – AD 1900s) (2023)
Book Chapter
O'Regan, H. (2023). Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC – AD 1900s). In O. Grimm (Ed.), Bear and Human Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe. Volume 1 (187-208). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TANE-EB.5.134334

The brown bear, Ursus arctos, was a native British mammal, but is now extinct. This chapter briefly explores the history of the native brown bear before turning to the anthropogenic evidence for bears in prehistoric and later Britain. There are two m... Read More about Brown bears in burials and entertainment in later prehistoric to modern Britain (c. 2400 BC – AD 1900s).