Alicia Jiménez
Alicia Jiménez is associate professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Duke University. She has wide-ranging interests in postcolonial theory, ancient Roman imperialism and the material traces of violence in the creation of the western provinces of the Roman empire, with a special focus on the Iberian Peninsula (Hispania).
She is author of Imagines hibridae. A postcolonial approach to the study of the Baetican necropolis (in Spanish, Anejos AEspA, 2008), an analysis of the impact of Roman colonization in the funerary rituals of southern Spain and how different discourses about collective ancestry were simultaneously mediated in the forum and the tomb. Her second book, Imitation and Power in Ancient Rome: an Archaeology of Mimesis (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), is an investigation on how shapes, images and objects are transmitted and replicated in provincial contexts and the power dynamics enmeshed in imitation processes. Dr. Jiménez is editor of the proceedings of a session on the re-creation of Punic identities in southern Iberia and the north of Africa during Roman times (Colonising a Colonised territory, 2010, XVII International Congress of Classical Archaeology, AIAC) and co-editor of two volumes that focus on two important anthropological problems: the introduction of coins in pre-monetary societies (with M. P. García-Bellido, L. Callegarin, Barter, money and coinage in the ancient Mediterranean, 2011) and the role of coinage in the establishment of the Empire during the late Roman Republic (with M. P. García-Bellido and A. Mostalac, Del imperium de Pompeyo a la auctoritas de Augusto. Homenaje a Michael Grant, 2008). In addition, she has published several articles in English and Spanish in peer-reviewed journals (such as the Journal of Roman Archaeology, Antiquity and World Archaeology) and more than 20 book chapters. She is also the co-author of three archaeological reports on the Roman camps at Renieblas.
She is the PI of Duke’s excavation project at the Roman army camps near Numantia (Renieblas, Spain, 2nd-1st c. BCE), one of the oldest Roman camps in the Mediterranean and a key site to understand the role of the army in the creation of the first Roman provinces. Dr. Jiménez has been visiting Durham’s cemeteries with her course “The archaeology of death” since 2015 and is a co-founder of the Durham Black Burial Grounds Collaboratory, a multi-university/community research group studying Durham’s African American burial grounds, sharing their histories with the public, and reinvigorating them as spaces of dignity and learning (P. I. Adam Rosenblatt, Duke University).
Dr. Jiménez sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Roman Archaeology and the newest Spanish journal solely devoted to Iberian Archaeology, Archaeologia Iberica. She is also a member of the advisory board of the Norwegian Archaeological Review.
She has completed research stays in Germany (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Zentrale, Berlin), the UK (Glasgow University, University College London), France (ANHIMA, CNRS-EHESS-EPHE-Paris 1-Paris 7), and the USA (Columbia, Yale, Stanford and Berkeley) and had the opportunity to travel to Greece, the UK and the US as a fellow of a Getty Grant, The Arts of Rome’s Provinces, a three-year project that brought together an international group of historians, art historians, museum professionals and archaeologists to promote a broad conversation about the particular manifestations of material culture in Rome's imperial provinces (PI Natalie B. Kampen).
Dr. Jiménez earned her PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Prior to her arrival at Duke, she was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Classics at Stanford University and Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University and the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid (CCHS, CSIC).
Selected Courses
- Hispania: The Making of a Roman Province
- The Archaeology of Roman Imperialism
- Lost and Found: Roman Coinage
- To the Gods of the Underworld: Roman Funerary Archaeology
- Roman spectacles
Address: Department of Classical Studies, Duke University
233H Allen Building, PO Box 90103
Durham, NC 27708-0103
USA
She is author of Imagines hibridae. A postcolonial approach to the study of the Baetican necropolis (in Spanish, Anejos AEspA, 2008), an analysis of the impact of Roman colonization in the funerary rituals of southern Spain and how different discourses about collective ancestry were simultaneously mediated in the forum and the tomb. Her second book, Imitation and Power in Ancient Rome: an Archaeology of Mimesis (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), is an investigation on how shapes, images and objects are transmitted and replicated in provincial contexts and the power dynamics enmeshed in imitation processes. Dr. Jiménez is editor of the proceedings of a session on the re-creation of Punic identities in southern Iberia and the north of Africa during Roman times (Colonising a Colonised territory, 2010, XVII International Congress of Classical Archaeology, AIAC) and co-editor of two volumes that focus on two important anthropological problems: the introduction of coins in pre-monetary societies (with M. P. García-Bellido, L. Callegarin, Barter, money and coinage in the ancient Mediterranean, 2011) and the role of coinage in the establishment of the Empire during the late Roman Republic (with M. P. García-Bellido and A. Mostalac, Del imperium de Pompeyo a la auctoritas de Augusto. Homenaje a Michael Grant, 2008). In addition, she has published several articles in English and Spanish in peer-reviewed journals (such as the Journal of Roman Archaeology, Antiquity and World Archaeology) and more than 20 book chapters. She is also the co-author of three archaeological reports on the Roman camps at Renieblas.
She is the PI of Duke’s excavation project at the Roman army camps near Numantia (Renieblas, Spain, 2nd-1st c. BCE), one of the oldest Roman camps in the Mediterranean and a key site to understand the role of the army in the creation of the first Roman provinces. Dr. Jiménez has been visiting Durham’s cemeteries with her course “The archaeology of death” since 2015 and is a co-founder of the Durham Black Burial Grounds Collaboratory, a multi-university/community research group studying Durham’s African American burial grounds, sharing their histories with the public, and reinvigorating them as spaces of dignity and learning (P. I. Adam Rosenblatt, Duke University).
Dr. Jiménez sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Roman Archaeology and the newest Spanish journal solely devoted to Iberian Archaeology, Archaeologia Iberica. She is also a member of the advisory board of the Norwegian Archaeological Review.
She has completed research stays in Germany (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Zentrale, Berlin), the UK (Glasgow University, University College London), France (ANHIMA, CNRS-EHESS-EPHE-Paris 1-Paris 7), and the USA (Columbia, Yale, Stanford and Berkeley) and had the opportunity to travel to Greece, the UK and the US as a fellow of a Getty Grant, The Arts of Rome’s Provinces, a three-year project that brought together an international group of historians, art historians, museum professionals and archaeologists to promote a broad conversation about the particular manifestations of material culture in Rome's imperial provinces (PI Natalie B. Kampen).
Dr. Jiménez earned her PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Prior to her arrival at Duke, she was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Classics at Stanford University and Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University and the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid (CCHS, CSIC).
Selected Courses
- Hispania: The Making of a Roman Province
- The Archaeology of Roman Imperialism
- Lost and Found: Roman Coinage
- To the Gods of the Underworld: Roman Funerary Archaeology
- Roman spectacles
Address: Department of Classical Studies, Duke University
233H Allen Building, PO Box 90103
Durham, NC 27708-0103
USA
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Traditional approaches to the process known as ‘Romanisation’ usually have taken into account the interaction between Roman colonists and native populations around the Mediterranean. Roman colonisation, however, took place in vast regions over a territory previously colonised by Carthage. How did the settlement of Punic population in certain cities affect the redefinition of identities in Republican and early Imperial times? Is there a distinctive way of ‘becoming Roman’ in these areas? Could certain trends in rituals, town planning or settlement in the landscape be observedin these contexts? How was the coexistence of different identities – Roman/Punic/local – negotiated in these populations? How was this multilayered identity expressed through material culture and to what extent might it have influenced the way these groups interacted with Roman colonists? All these issues are directly relevant to a postcolonial analysis of cities, rural settlements and ritual places with Punic roots in Roman times, where aspects like hybridisation, mimicry, coexistence of several ‘discourses’ in a given city, or expression of different types of social identity through material culture and the ‘rituals’ of the daily life, should be stressed.
Contents
1. Alicia Jiménez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Introduction: Colonising e Colinised Territory. Settlements with Punic Roots in Roman Times
2. Carlos Cañete Jiménez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Retelling the tale: Modernity, Colonialism and Discourse about Roman Expansion
3. Rossella Colombi (Independent Researcher)
Indigenous Settlements and Punic Presence in Roman Republican Northern Sardinia
4. Alicia Jiménez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Roman Settlements/Punic Ancestors: some examples from the Necropolis of Southern Iberia
5. Carmen Aranegui, Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánche (Museum of Prehistory, Valencia)
Romanisation in the Far West: Local Practices in Western Mauritatia (2nd c. .B.C.E. - 2nd c. .C.E.)
6. Josephine Quinn (University of Oxford)
The Reinvention of Lepcis
7. Elizabeth Fentress
Response: Cultural Layering and Performative Ethnicity
8. Peter van Dommelen
Response: Local Representations
Journal articles by Alicia Jiménez
Fieldwork by the Renieblas Archaeological Project (PAR) between 2015 and 2020 has provid- ed previously unknown data and offered new interpretations of the Roman camps near Numantia. It has been possible to confirm in various sectors of the site the shallow depth of the archaeological remains and the absence of buried structures not excavated by Schulten. We have also proposed a new sequence regarding the superimposition of the camps and the absence of an enclosing wall of camp III to the south. We have completed an initial study of the fauna present at the site and proposed a chronological framework for camps II and III (the first half of the 2nd century BC) based on archaeological materials in context and carbon-14 analysis. New high-resolution LiDAR models allow us to discard a recent hypothesis regarding the line of the annex wall to the east of camp III.
El trabajo desarrollado por el Proyecto Arqueológico Renieblas (PAR) entre 2015 y 2020 ha permitido aportar datos hasta ahora desconocidos y sugerir nuevas hipótesis interpretativas sobre estos campamentos romanos cercanos a Numancia. Se ha podido establecer la escasa potencia conservada y la inexistencia de estructuras enterradas no excavadas por Schulten en varios sectores del yacimiento. Hemos propuesto también una nueva secuencia relativa de la superposición de los campamentos y la ausencia de un muro de cierre del campamento III por el sur. Además, aportamos una primera aproximación al estudio de la fauna presente en el yaci- miento y una cronología para los campamentos II y III (primera mitad del siglo ii aC) basada en materiales arqueológicos en contexto y análisis de carbono 14. Nuevos mapas LiDAR de alta resolución nos permiten también descartar ahora una reciente propuesta del trazado del cierre del anexo situado al este del campamento III.
Keywords: Baelo Claudia. Funerary cults. Liminal cippi.
Imagines. Simulacra. Doubles. ‘Archaic’ materials.
Roman times. Western Mediterranean.
Book chapters by Alicia Jiménez
To that end, the archaeological study of Renieblas, one of the earliest and largest areas of Roman camps in the Mediterranean, where at least five camps were discovered in the early 20th century, is particularly relevant. The camps were involved in the conquest of the early province of Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal) and the siege of the native Celtiberian settlement at Numantia, which resulted in Rome’s annexation of much of the Iberian Peninsula in 133 BCE.
During the fieldwork seasons of 2015 and 2016 we excavated trial trenches in two selected sectors of the earliest camps at Renieblas (Camps I, II) and studied for the first time the material culture of the site using modern archaeological techniques and methodology. The goal of the project is not only to contribute to discussions on the origins of the Roman Empire and colonialism and the role of the community of soldiers in that process, but also to an anthropological debate about the material traces of domination, resistance and violence, beyond the specific battles and campaigns recorded by the ancient sources.
Google books: http://tinyurl.com/yam4hcjr --- Standard time is a recent invention. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the valid standard of time was the local time of each city or town. Back then clocks reflected solar time, which varies depending on the position of a given point on the globe. Communication among communities was suciently restricted and the time required to travel between locations with different times long enough for the need for calibration of local times not to arise. Railway transportation created a new scenario, in which a difference of four minutes between local times could mean missing a train passing through only once a day. Increased interdependence among communities made the synchronisation of clocks to a single standard necessary for the first time (Zerubavel 1982, 6–7).
In this chapter I propose to use the metaphor of the creation of a shared, standard time around the globe as a consequence of an unprecedented increase in connectivity and integration in the nineteenth century to investigate the apparent ‘synchronisation’ after the Roman conquest of certain types of objects produced en masse and architectural styles from the eastern to the western ends of the Mediterranean. Why and how did the appearance of certain kinds of things become so similar in different provinces of the Roman empire? I will make a few comments on how the concepts of style and type can illuminate processes of standardisation. Then I will briefly compare different examples of mass produced objects (such as coins, statues, and pottery) and ask some questions about our interpretation of practices attached to standard objects and the creation of categories through repeated imitation.
Las monedas que los soldados asentados en estos campamentos perdieron en algunos casos, y atesoraron en otros, son excepcionales por varias razones, entre las que cabe destacar en primer lugar, por un lado, la presencia de una gran cantidad de ejemplares importados de Roma, y, por otro, su antigüedad. La mayoría fueron acuñados entre finales del s. III a. C. y principios del s. II a. C., de forma coetánea o muy poco posterior a la llegada de las primeras tropas romanas a la Península en el año 218 a. C. (Richardson, 1986: 31-61). Pero debe también señalarse que, al contrario que en la mayoría de los hallazgos monetales en poblados o necrópolis de la península Ibérica, es posible asegurar que las monedas procedentes de los campamentos numantinos fueron utilizadas por soldados vinculados, como tropas regulares o auxiliares, al ejército romano. Este es un dato fundamental, puesto que permite establecer una conexión entre los objetos, las personas que los utilizaron y las prácticas asociadas a ellos. A partir de ahí, es posible interpretar las monedas como parte del conjunto de productos que Roma se encargaba de abastecer a las tropas desplazadas a las, en algunos casos, lejanas provincias en una etapa crucial de la expansión militar romana por el Mediterráneo (siglos II – I a. C) (Roth, 1999; Cadiou, 2008: 545-609).
My aim in this essay is to investigate the importance of the province as a unit of analysis in antiquity and to explore new ways of approaching the variability and unity of provincial material culture. After setting out the meaning of the term prouincia in Roman times, I discuss the term’s discursive apparatus as part of the creative dialectical relationship between provincial and imperial identities. Finally, I show that provincial archaeology can—and should—play an important role in moving beyond traditional models of center/periphery, which, ultimately, are replications in the present of Roman representations of the world.
Abstract
Traditional approaches to the process known as ‘Romanisation’ usually have taken into account the interaction between Roman colonists and native populations around the Mediterranean. Roman colonisation, however, took place in vast regions over a territory previously colonised by Carthage. How did the settlement of Punic population in certain cities affect the redefinition of identities in Republican and early Imperial times? Is there a distinctive way of ‘becoming Roman’ in these areas? Could certain trends in rituals, town planning or settlement in the landscape be observedin these contexts? How was the coexistence of different identities – Roman/Punic/local – negotiated in these populations? How was this multilayered identity expressed through material culture and to what extent might it have influenced the way these groups interacted with Roman colonists? All these issues are directly relevant to a postcolonial analysis of cities, rural settlements and ritual places with Punic roots in Roman times, where aspects like hybridisation, mimicry, coexistence of several ‘discourses’ in a given city, or expression of different types of social identity through material culture and the ‘rituals’ of the daily life, should be stressed.
Contents
1. Alicia Jiménez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Introduction: Colonising e Colinised Territory. Settlements with Punic Roots in Roman Times
2. Carlos Cañete Jiménez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Retelling the tale: Modernity, Colonialism and Discourse about Roman Expansion
3. Rossella Colombi (Independent Researcher)
Indigenous Settlements and Punic Presence in Roman Republican Northern Sardinia
4. Alicia Jiménez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Roman Settlements/Punic Ancestors: some examples from the Necropolis of Southern Iberia
5. Carmen Aranegui, Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánche (Museum of Prehistory, Valencia)
Romanisation in the Far West: Local Practices in Western Mauritatia (2nd c. .B.C.E. - 2nd c. .C.E.)
6. Josephine Quinn (University of Oxford)
The Reinvention of Lepcis
7. Elizabeth Fentress
Response: Cultural Layering and Performative Ethnicity
8. Peter van Dommelen
Response: Local Representations
Fieldwork by the Renieblas Archaeological Project (PAR) between 2015 and 2020 has provid- ed previously unknown data and offered new interpretations of the Roman camps near Numantia. It has been possible to confirm in various sectors of the site the shallow depth of the archaeological remains and the absence of buried structures not excavated by Schulten. We have also proposed a new sequence regarding the superimposition of the camps and the absence of an enclosing wall of camp III to the south. We have completed an initial study of the fauna present at the site and proposed a chronological framework for camps II and III (the first half of the 2nd century BC) based on archaeological materials in context and carbon-14 analysis. New high-resolution LiDAR models allow us to discard a recent hypothesis regarding the line of the annex wall to the east of camp III.
El trabajo desarrollado por el Proyecto Arqueológico Renieblas (PAR) entre 2015 y 2020 ha permitido aportar datos hasta ahora desconocidos y sugerir nuevas hipótesis interpretativas sobre estos campamentos romanos cercanos a Numancia. Se ha podido establecer la escasa potencia conservada y la inexistencia de estructuras enterradas no excavadas por Schulten en varios sectores del yacimiento. Hemos propuesto también una nueva secuencia relativa de la superposición de los campamentos y la ausencia de un muro de cierre del campamento III por el sur. Además, aportamos una primera aproximación al estudio de la fauna presente en el yaci- miento y una cronología para los campamentos II y III (primera mitad del siglo ii aC) basada en materiales arqueológicos en contexto y análisis de carbono 14. Nuevos mapas LiDAR de alta resolución nos permiten también descartar ahora una reciente propuesta del trazado del cierre del anexo situado al este del campamento III.
Keywords: Baelo Claudia. Funerary cults. Liminal cippi.
Imagines. Simulacra. Doubles. ‘Archaic’ materials.
Roman times. Western Mediterranean.
To that end, the archaeological study of Renieblas, one of the earliest and largest areas of Roman camps in the Mediterranean, where at least five camps were discovered in the early 20th century, is particularly relevant. The camps were involved in the conquest of the early province of Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal) and the siege of the native Celtiberian settlement at Numantia, which resulted in Rome’s annexation of much of the Iberian Peninsula in 133 BCE.
During the fieldwork seasons of 2015 and 2016 we excavated trial trenches in two selected sectors of the earliest camps at Renieblas (Camps I, II) and studied for the first time the material culture of the site using modern archaeological techniques and methodology. The goal of the project is not only to contribute to discussions on the origins of the Roman Empire and colonialism and the role of the community of soldiers in that process, but also to an anthropological debate about the material traces of domination, resistance and violence, beyond the specific battles and campaigns recorded by the ancient sources.
Google books: http://tinyurl.com/yam4hcjr --- Standard time is a recent invention. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the valid standard of time was the local time of each city or town. Back then clocks reflected solar time, which varies depending on the position of a given point on the globe. Communication among communities was suciently restricted and the time required to travel between locations with different times long enough for the need for calibration of local times not to arise. Railway transportation created a new scenario, in which a difference of four minutes between local times could mean missing a train passing through only once a day. Increased interdependence among communities made the synchronisation of clocks to a single standard necessary for the first time (Zerubavel 1982, 6–7).
In this chapter I propose to use the metaphor of the creation of a shared, standard time around the globe as a consequence of an unprecedented increase in connectivity and integration in the nineteenth century to investigate the apparent ‘synchronisation’ after the Roman conquest of certain types of objects produced en masse and architectural styles from the eastern to the western ends of the Mediterranean. Why and how did the appearance of certain kinds of things become so similar in different provinces of the Roman empire? I will make a few comments on how the concepts of style and type can illuminate processes of standardisation. Then I will briefly compare different examples of mass produced objects (such as coins, statues, and pottery) and ask some questions about our interpretation of practices attached to standard objects and the creation of categories through repeated imitation.
Las monedas que los soldados asentados en estos campamentos perdieron en algunos casos, y atesoraron en otros, son excepcionales por varias razones, entre las que cabe destacar en primer lugar, por un lado, la presencia de una gran cantidad de ejemplares importados de Roma, y, por otro, su antigüedad. La mayoría fueron acuñados entre finales del s. III a. C. y principios del s. II a. C., de forma coetánea o muy poco posterior a la llegada de las primeras tropas romanas a la Península en el año 218 a. C. (Richardson, 1986: 31-61). Pero debe también señalarse que, al contrario que en la mayoría de los hallazgos monetales en poblados o necrópolis de la península Ibérica, es posible asegurar que las monedas procedentes de los campamentos numantinos fueron utilizadas por soldados vinculados, como tropas regulares o auxiliares, al ejército romano. Este es un dato fundamental, puesto que permite establecer una conexión entre los objetos, las personas que los utilizaron y las prácticas asociadas a ellos. A partir de ahí, es posible interpretar las monedas como parte del conjunto de productos que Roma se encargaba de abastecer a las tropas desplazadas a las, en algunos casos, lejanas provincias en una etapa crucial de la expansión militar romana por el Mediterráneo (siglos II – I a. C) (Roth, 1999; Cadiou, 2008: 545-609).
My aim in this essay is to investigate the importance of the province as a unit of analysis in antiquity and to explore new ways of approaching the variability and unity of provincial material culture. After setting out the meaning of the term prouincia in Roman times, I discuss the term’s discursive apparatus as part of the creative dialectical relationship between provincial and imperial identities. Finally, I show that provincial archaeology can—and should—play an important role in moving beyond traditional models of center/periphery, which, ultimately, are replications in the present of Roman representations of the world.
In ancient Greece, the idea of mimesis was used to refer to the ability to copy the appearance of someone or something. This concept had also special importance to understanding the philosophical character of the relationship produced in poetry and in the theatre between representation and reality. According to Plato and Aristotle, the practice of mimesis also involves learning. This idea is also implicitly present in the archaeological evolutionist and diffusionist analyses of the 19th and 20th centuries which state that the imitation of "superior" cultures is one of the methods with which conquered people acquire "civilisation". In fact the imitation of the material culture of distant regions is one of the most recurring arguments in our discipline when one wishes to explain the analogies that are observed in the material culture of two geographically distant points, through the establishment of parallels based on formal similarities. This paper briefly analyses the review of the concept of mimesis carried out by authors, such as H. Bhabha, who have expanded on the subversive aspects of the imitation of a coloniser’s culture, and how this can, in certain contexts, become a method of redesign, both for the image of the coloniser and the image of the local groups, as well as its possible application to the study the ancient Mediterranean material culture.
Resumen
En la antigua Grecia se empleaba la noción de mímesis para referirse a la habilidad de simular la apariencia de alguien o de alguna cosa. Este concepto tenía también una especial relevancia para entender la relación de carácter filosófico que se produce en la poesía y en el teatro entre representación y realidad. Según Platón y Aristóteles, la práctica de la mímesis, además, conlleva aprendizaje. Esta idea está igualmente presente de forma implícita en los análisis de corte evolucionista y difusionista de la arqueología de los s. XIX y XX, que entienden que los procesos de imitación de culturas "superiores" es uno de los medios por el que los pueblos conquistados acceden a la "civilización". De hecho, la imitación de la cultura material de regiones distantes, es una de las argumentaciones más recurrentes en nuestra disciplina cuando se pretende explicar las analogías que se observan en la cultura material de dos puntos lejanos geográficamente, a través del establecimiento de paralelos basados en similitudes formales.
En este trabajo se analiza brevemente la revisión del concepto de mimetismo llevada a cabo por autores que, como Homi Bhabha, han profundizado en los aspectos subversivos de la imitación de la cultura del colonizador, y cómo ésta, en determinados contextos, puede convertirse en una vía de reformulación, tanto de la imagen del colonizador, como de la imagen que éste tiene de los grupos locales y su posible aplicación al estudio de la cultura material del Mediterráneo antiguo.
In the first section of this paper, the evidence provided by the ancient sources on the establishment of a Roman settlement next to an important native oppidum is contrasted with the archaeological remains discovered in the town in recent years. Next, we tackle the question of the coexistence of several discourses on the meaning of ‘being Roman’ in Colonia Patricia through a comparison of the representation of collective identities in public spaces and of individual or family identities in houses and tombs and their relevance in the transformation of the Republican colony of Corduba into the Colonia Patricia of the early Empire.
The movement of people as well as objects has always stood at the heart of attempts to understand the courses and process of human history. The Mediterranean offers a wealth of such information and Material Connections, expanding on this base, offers a dynamic, new subject of enquiry – the social identify of prehistoric and historic Mediterranean people – and considers how migration, colonial encounters, and connectivity or insularity influence social identities. The volume includes a series of innovative, closely related case studies that examine the contacts amongst various Mediterranean islands – Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, the Balearics – and the nearby shores of Italy, Greece, North Africa, Spain and the Levant to explore the social and cultural impact of migratory, colonial and exchange encounters. Material Connections forges a new path in understanding the material culture of the Mediterranean and will be essential for those wishing to develop their understanding of material culture and identity in the Mediterranean.
Contents
1. Material connections: mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen
2.Classifying an oxymoron. On black boxes, materiality and identity in the scientific representation of the Mediterranean Carlos Cañete
3.Reproducing difference: mimesis and colonialism in Roman Hispania Alicia Jiménez
4.From colonisation to habitation: early cultural adaptations in the Balearic Bronze Age Damià Ramis
5.Social identities, materiality and connectivity in Early Bronze Age Crete Marina Gkiasta
6.Foreign materials, islander mobility and elite identity in Late Bronze Age Sardinia Anthony Russell
7.Negotiating island interactions: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze to Early Iron Ages Sarah Janes
8.Entangled identities on Iron Age Sardinia? Jeremy Hayne
9.Iron, connectivity and local identities in the Iron Age to Classical Mediterranean Maria Kostoglou
10.Mobility, materiality and identities in Iron Age east Iberia: on the appropriation of material culture and the question of judgement Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz
11.Trading settlements and the materiality of wine consumption in the north Tyrrhenian Sea region Corinna Riva
12. Concluding thoughts Michael Rowlands
In this paper I focus on the necropoleis of Baelo Claudia, a Roman town often included in the group of cities where Punic traditions were still alive in necropoleis dated to the Late Republic or early Imperial times.
El período comprendido entre el final de las guerras sertorianas y la conclusión de las guerras civiles (72-44 a. C.) -que coincide aproximadamente con la etapa que transcurre entre el inicio del mandato de César en la Ulterior (69 a. C.) y su victoria sobre el bando pompeyano- es un período de gran importancia para entender la transformación de las acuñaciones hispanas como consecuencia del proceso de conquista y colonización de la Península Ibérica. A la suspensión de ciertas acuñaciones locales de plata se une el cierre de algunas cecas hispanas y un período de inactividad de la ceca de Roma en lo que a la acuñación de bronce se refiere. De forma paralela las monedas adoptan un lenguaje bilingüe, que afectará no sólo a las leyendas sino también a las propias imágenes, que preludian la transformación profunda del documento de carácter oficial y ciudadano que es la moneda en las posteriores acuñaciones provinciales de época augustea.
Papers by Ioana Oltean, João Fonte and Alicia Jiménez.
In Europe, the LIMES congress serves as a platform for the presentation of new findings in the archaeology of the Roman army, but occasions to discuss recent developments in this field or, more broadly, in the western part of the Roman empire occur rarely in North America. We are bringing to the AIA a group of European and North American archaeologists with long-term engagement in important fieldwork projects to present new or in some cases even still unpublished materials. Our hope is to advance novel interpretations on the development of Roman camps and their internal layouts, the living conditions of the soldiers and the supply from Rome, the role of provincial population in the army and the creation of frontiers, based on new data available thanks to techniques of remote sensing (ALS and geophysical surveys, LiDAR-based site plans) and archaeological fieldwork conducted in the last ten years in important Roman military camps in Hispania, Gallia, Germania, and Britannia.
The aim of this workshop is to leave the 'many hybridisms' behind and to go back to what we suggest are the basic parameters of 'hybrid thinking', namely every-day, routine as well as ritual practices and material culture. We propose to explore not only how hybridity was enacted in practice, but also what the practical implications of the ‘theory of practice' may be for our conceptualization of hybridity in material culture studies. By bringing together a group of scholars who have been involved in these debates from early on, we intend to go 'back to basics' and to refocus attention and zoom in on the conceptual nexus between practice and material culture, which we consider of critical significance for archaeological studies. "
The study of mimesis has usually revolved around the problem of representation of an original model through a fake copy –the representation of reality through the work of art, the theatre play or the literary text-, forgetting the links between imitation, the transmission of culture, power and objects. Yet imitation, copying and translation are widely assumed features of studies of material culture and there are many different contexts in which the study of ‘things’ from a mimetic perspective is required that will be explored during the conference. In fact, it is impossible to talk about the transmission of culture (Barth), culture as an epidemiology of representations (Sperber) or the stylistic analysis of forms (Gell) without questioning the basics of copying and imitation and studying the specifics of image, form and pattern in such processes. These concerns apply equally to archaeology, since style transmission and the transformation of images is part of the discussion of material connections and transmissions, and it is also prominent in debates on the spreading and reproduction of material culture from the metropolis in the provinces.
Papers by: Richard Bussmann (UCL), Dimitri Karadimas (CNRS, Paris), Alex Bentley (Durham University), Christopher Pinney (UCL), Tim Webmoor (University of Oxford), Michael Rowlands (UCL), Ludovic Coupaye (UCL), Chris Gosden (University of Oxford), Anne-Christinne Taylor (Musée du quai Branly, Paris) and Alicia Jiménez (UCL/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
Chairs: Stephan Feuchtwang (LSE), Martin Holbraad (UCL) and Beverley Butler (UCL)
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«Archaeologia Iberica» is a scientific journal that has been created with the aim of contributing to the international debate with papers dedicated to archaeological studies about the Iberian Peninsula from the Protohistory to the Early Middle Ages. It is a publishing project conceived as a meeting place for researchers and scholars not only of Iberian archaeology but also of the central and western Mediterranean and central and western Europe, which aims to become a versatile study tool that goes beyond typological studies and allows for a diachronic investigation of the social, performative, and transcultural uses across the Peninsula in a plurality of approaches that reflect the complexity of the landscape of archaeological research in this field of investigation. «Archaeologia Iberica» therefore aims to be a place in which to publish scientific articles dedicated to the results of excavations, but also to research and problems related to the studies on peninsular archaeology in a broad chronological span from Protohistory, to the Archaeology of Colonisation, Roman and Late Roman archaeology up to the early medieval period. A special focus is played by the examination of the different material and cultural interaction that diversify and, at the same time, characterise the Peninsula, a topic that has been rather neglected until now and that deserves to be treated and explored in depth.
Director / Editor:
Raimon Graells I Fabregat (Universidad de Alicante , España)
Comité Científico / Consejo Editorial:
Jesús Álvarez Sanchís (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España), Xosé Lois Armada Pita (INCIPIT-CSIC,
Santiago de Compostela, España), Jesús Bermejo Tirado (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, España), Macarena
Bustamante Álvarez (Universidad Granada, España), Laurent Callegarin (Université de Pau et des Pays de
l'Adour, Francia), Manuel Fernández-Götz (Universidad de Edimburgo, United Kingdom), Diana Gorostidi PI
(Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica , España), Alicia Jiménez (Duke University, EE.
UU.), Eneko Hiriart (Archeosciences Bordeaux, Francia), Michał Krueger (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w
Poznaniu Polska), Pedro Mateos Cruz (IAM - CSIC, Mérida, España), Jaime Molina Vidal (Universidad de
Alicante, España), José Miguel Noguera Celdrán (Universidad de Murcia, España), Alberto J. Lorrio Alvarado
(Universidad de Alicante, España), Silvia Paltineri (Universidad de Padua, Italia), Leonor Peña Chocarro (IH -
CSIC, Madrid, España), Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez (Universidad de Sevilla, España), Carmen Rueda Galán
(Universidad de Jaén, España), Alfredo M Santoro (Universidad de Salerno, Italia), Elisa de Sousa (Uniarq -
Centro de Arqueología da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Félix Teichner (Philipps-Universität Marburg,
Alemania), Raquel Vilaça (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), María del Mar Zarzalejos Prieto (UNED , Madrid,
España)
Secretaria de Redacción / Secretaria de Redacción:
Susana de Luis Mariño (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, España)
Co-organizers: Alicia Jiménez ([email protected]) y Alfredo González-
Ruibal ([email protected])
Archaeology leans heavily on typologies and similarities. Narratives about
cultural change, the spreading of ideas and diasporas are often linked to things that
look alike but belong to different chronological or geographical frames.
Material connections between “centers” and “peripheries” are commonly traced by
looking at provincial copies of models irradiated from the metropolis. And yet, despite
the longstanding tradition of typological studies and analysis of the meaning of style
variation (Wiessner, Sackett, Conkey & Hastorf), the role of imagines, simulacra and
replicas in the transmission of culture is still relatively ill-defined from a theoretical point
of view in archaeological research.
The papers in this session will explore theoretical approaches to an
archaeology of the double and ask questions that help us to go beyond the original
model/fake copy dilemma. By interrogating the materiality of the replica we hope to be
able to analyze the vision/double as essence and not only as a vacuous instance of
representation.
Session format: Series of papers followed by Q&A and final comments by a
discussant.
We particularly welcome papers focusing on:
• The politics of double vision: vision as power / the anti-authoritarian gaze.
• The double as translation and interpretation.
• The double as a purposely inaccurate copy, a partial representation (pars pro
toto) or as means of taking the alien within.
• The double as failure and the impossibility of an exact replica.
• The influence of the double or the consequences of “double vision” for the
“model”.
• Replicas that make possible the vision of something that is immaterial or
absent.
• The role of the double in our understanding of things by means of visualization.
• The importance of replication in constructing pasts (ancestor representation)
and futures (material projections of visions).
• The relationship between cloning and social reproduction as well as the
relationship between homogeneous material culture and individuation.
To submit a paper abstract (max 300 words) please email the session organizers by
March 8. Session organizers are responsible for selecting papers, and for sending the
complete session roster along with all paper abstracts and titles to the TAG-Chicago
committee by March 15, 2013.