Armed Batavians : Use and Significance of Weaponry and Horse Gear from Non-military Contexts in the Rhine Delta (50 BC to AD 450)

Nicolay, Johan

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“…Similarly, long-standing ideas concerning the adoption of Roman practices only in urban areas in the Low Countries after the Roman conquest (Van Es, 1981, p. 261) have become less plausible following recent research into various Roman finds in private collections. The distribution of finds such as coins, military gear, jewellery and bodycare utensils recovered by private collectors suggests that the inhabitants of rural settlements were well integrated in the Roman state and its economic structures (Aarts, 2000;Heeren, 2009;Nicolay, 2007). If our current bias, due to the incomplete account of the presence/absence of material remains, is even partially corrected in find distribution maps, the interpretation of archaeological sites and historical phenomena may be enhanced.…”

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PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands): Harnessing Geospatial Technology for the Enrichment of Archaeological Data

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Heeren²,

Ruler³

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Artefacts found during archaeological fieldwork are the objects most favoured by academic research. Private collections on the other hand, of which many exist and which may contain large numbers of artefacts, are mostly disregarded. These overlooked objects are often retrieved by people looking for artefacts in agrarian fields or in construction yards. Their private collections carry considerable value for archaeological and heritage research, but have never been systematically documented. They are therefore hardly known within professional circles in the Netherlands. The central aim of PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands) is to document and publish archaeological finds in private ownership online, particularly metal artefacts found by metal detector users. PAN makes information about these objects and their find locations available for a variety of stakeholders, significantly increasing the amount of archaeological artefacts that can be used for research and for the creation of object distribution maps in the Netherlands, which are an important research tool for archaeologists.

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PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands): Harnessing Geospatial Technology for the Enrichment of Archaeological Data

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Heeren²,

Ruler³

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“…Specialised horse-breeding in the region to supply surplus horses, primarily to the army, has been argued in many studies of the ancient economy in the Dutch limes zone (see Kooistra 1996;Nicolay 2008;Vossen and Groot 2009). Horse bones in rural zooarchaeological assemblages are almost ubiquitous with some assemblages containing up to 30% horse remains (see Lauwerier and Robeerst 2001, Table 1).…”

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Modelling Agricultural Strategies in the Dutch Roman Limes via Agent-Based Modelling (ROMFARMS)

Joyce

2019

Computational Social Sciences

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This chapter presents an agent-based model developed to investigate the impact on land and labour costs of different agricultural strategies that could have been undertaken in the Early and Middle Roman periods (12 BCE to 270 CE) in the Lower Rhine delta. A short description of the sub-processes in ROMFARMS to simulate settlement population dynamics, arable farming, animal husbandry and wood acquisition is provided. The results show that settlements in the Dutch limes zone during the Roman period were mostly limited by the relatively small labour pool available. Whilst not prevented outright by the availability of labour, the results show that only a small proportion of the total quantity of grain demanded by to military settlements, towns and vici can be supplied by local settlements. Two different possible scales of supply were envisaged with the results indicating that a macroregional supply network was more feasible in which all settlements in the Lower Rhine delta were involved in the supply of consumer-only settlements. Whilst several methodological issues were noted, ROMFARMS is presented as an innovative tool for Dutch Roman archaeology with good potential for further development.

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“…For one, the absence of militaria from burials possibly suggests rather mundane attitudes towards military service from the very start of the cemetery. This may reflect a broader development across the civitas Batavorum where these materials are increasingly present in settlement contexts (Nicolay 2007), while martial depositions in sanctuaries all but ceased (Roymans and Aarts 2005). The impetus for such transformations may have been the regularization of auxiliary recruitment and ongoing frontier consolidation under Claudius.…”

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Anthropological Perspectives on Colonialism, Globalisation and Rural Lifeways: Expanding the Limits of archaeological Interpretation in the Lower Rhineland

Mata

2012

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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Armed Batavians : Use and Significance of Weaponry and Horse Gear from Non-military Contexts in the Rhine Delta (50 BC to AD 450)

Cited by 26 publications

References 14 publications

PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands): Harnessing Geospatial Technology for the Enrichment of Archaeological Data

PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands): Harnessing Geospatial Technology for the Enrichment of Archaeological Data

Modelling Agricultural Strategies in the Dutch Roman Limes via Agent-Based Modelling (ROMFARMS)

Anthropological Perspectives on Colonialism, Globalisation and Rural Lifeways: Expanding the Limits of archaeological Interpretation in the Lower Rhineland

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