Theme:
5. (Extreme) Environments – Islands, Coasts, Margins, Centres
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Archaeology of the Limes - Roman Settlements and Roman Military Presence on the Margins of the Empire
Content:
Roman frontiers during the time of the greatest extent of the imperial power were about 5000 kilometres long and stretched from the northern coast of Britain over the Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, the Red Sea and through North Africa back to the Atlantic Ocean. They ran through different climatic zones, biological ecosystems and ethnic areas bonding diverse landscapes and cultures and connecting them to the centre of the Empire.
The rchaeology of the limes allows us to understand how the Romans coped with adapting their fortification system to very different environmental conditions and attitudes of the conquered people. Although each military fort had generally the same architectural pattern and the Roman army in general shared the same diet requirements and consumer practices, each military landscape of the Empire demanded new ways of (re-)creating Roman military lifestyle in different circumstances.
We welcome presentations that take multidisciplinary approaches to Roman fortifications and their associated settlements across the Empire to demonstrate, from different perspectives, how remote peripheries functioned within the network of the globalising Roman world.
Keywords:
limes, Roman provinces, Roman army
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Paulina Komar (Poland) 1
Co-organisers:
Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski (Poland) 2
Julia Koch (Germany) 3
Maciej Czapski (Poland) 4
Jacek Hamburg (Georgia) 5
Affiliations:
1. Uniwersytet Kardynala Stefana Wyszyñskiego w Warszawie
2. Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw
3. Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
4. University of Warsaw
5. Krukowski Research Center
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