Landscapes and the Augustan Revolution

The Transformation of the Western Provinces between the Republic and the Early Empire
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-41102-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Global Perspectives on Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology

This book centres on the transformation of landscapes, focusing on the Western Mediterranean during the end of the Roman Republic and the Early Roman Empire.

This volume brings together diverse contributions that utilise both theoretical and practical approaches from landscape studies and archaeology to examine the transitions to the Empire in the provincial landscapes of the western Roman Empire. Focusing on wider processes of change and continuity, identified through diverse approaches (e.g., settlement patterns, mobility and communication, and military expansion) and methods (e.g., spatial analysis, remote sensing, and GIS), the contributions highlight the profound socio-economic, political, and environmental factors whose interplay shaped the region. In doing so, the book underscores the agency of local communities in shaping their landscapes and their varied responses to Imperial policies, thus generating new insights into the processes of social and political change brought about by Augustan reforms and how these were implemented and experienced at the local level.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers of archaeology and ancient history, particularly those focused on Roman and landscape archaeology.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

del Carmen Moreno Escobar, Maria

España-Chamorro, Sergio

Espana-Chamorro, Sergio

del Carmen Moreno Escobar, María

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Augustus and the provincial Landscapes: A Global Revolution; 1. Augustus and the Transformation of the Roman Road Network in the Western Provinces. An Epigraphical Perspective; 2. Sardinia and the Roman Road System: Accessibility Before and After the ‘Augustan Revolution’; 3. The Impact of Rome on the Landscape through the Study of Burial Distribution: Cultural Influences and Identity Negotiation in Transpadana in the First Century CE.; 4. Parametrising the Roman army's behaviour in northern Iberia; 5. There is No Final One; Revolutions are Infinite – The Transformation of the Central Alentejo during the First Century BCE; 6. Landscape transitions in Tarraco (Tarragona, Spain): Further understanding of provincial communities and their integration into the Roman Empire; 7. Augustan take-off, Severan crisis: economic bases and urban sustainability of a paruum oppidum of Hispania Citerior: Los Bañales in Uncastillo (Zaragoza, Spain); 8. MiReg – A comparative study of the urban-rural relationship in the western part of Hispania (the “Roman Far West”); 9. The Roman city of Águilas and its hinterland: an overview from the Late Republic to the eve of the Empire; 10. An interdisciplinary overview on Augustan North African Landscape; 11. Changes in the landscape of Corsica between the Late Republic and the Principate; 12. Transformation of the productive landscape in SW Iberian Peninsula: Economic orientation and infrastructure before and after the “Augustan Revolution”

Über Autor(innen)

Sergio España-Chamorro is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher in Ancient History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has held fellowships at Sapienza Università di Roma (Marie Curie Fellow), Institut Ausonius at Université Bordeaux-Montaigne (IdEx Fellow), and the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome (EEHAR-CSIC). His research focuses on Roman roads, milestones, landscape archaeology, and Latin epigraphy across Africa, Hispania, and Italy. He is also an Associate Member of Institut Ausonius and part of the African Archaeology research group.

Dr Maria del Carmen Moreno Escobar is a researcher in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University, Sweden. She leads the project 'Beyond Ports: Movement and Connectivity in the Roman Mediterranean,' funded by The Swedish Research Council, which aims to redefine our understanding of Roman maritime and terrestrial networks and their socio-economic impacts. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes during Roman times, integrating advanced computing applications in archaeology, particularly spatial analysis and modelling. She actively collaborates with international scholars, enhancing interdisciplinary approaches within the field.