Measuring women's influence on Roman military life: using GIS on published excavation reports from the German frontier

Allison, Penelope M.

doi:10.11141/ia.24.5

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“…While precontact household studies in Polynesia typically investigate gender through the structured use of space within sleeping houses and cooking areas, historic studies have applied a broad use of artifact analyses to identify women's activities and social roles, similar to analyses worldwide (Allison 2006(Allison , 2008Beaudry-Corbett and McCafferty 2002;Keith 1998). In her analysis of the Te Puna Mission House in New Zealand, Middleton (2007Middleton ( , 2013 illustrated how artifact types found in the excavations signaled women's roles as teachers and reproducers of English society.…”

Section: Gender and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Household Archaeology in Polynesia: Historical Context and New Directions

Kahn

2016

J Archaeol Res

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This review highlights archaeological investigations of precontact and historic house sites in Polynesia, a region noted for its diversity of chiefdoms in terms of scale and elaboration. Anthropological and historical perceptions of the Polynesian household have shifted over time, influencing the ways in which the household has been defined in archaeology. Early research emphasized houses as a unit of study within settlement pattern archaeology and as a means of delineating formal variability between sites and communities. Current studies stress a more holistic view of the household as a nexus of economic, social, and ritual activities. Diverse theoretical perspectives, such as the analytical concept of house societies, feminist archaeologies, landscape approaches, and agent-based models, have led to new archaeological approaches engaged with both the material and the nonmaterial aspects of the house and, in particular, how social relations structure the household. Current prominent themes include functional identification of house sites, understanding social variability, articulation of the household with the community, and comparative analyses of social complexity.

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Section: Gender and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Household Archaeology in Polynesia: Historical Context and New Directions

Kahn

2016

J Archaeol Res

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“…A number of the finds from Pons Tiluri are also military, including a pugio and scabbard from the Cetina River dating from the late 1 st century BC -mid 1 st AD, the approximate time Legio VII was stationed at Tilurium (Milošević 2009: 176-179). Nevertheless, non-combatants are found in forts across the Empire to differing degrees and their existence should not be disregarded a priori (van Driel-Murray 1997;Allison 2008;Greene 2020).…”

Section: The Legio VII 'Community Of the Soldier' And Its Articulatio...mentioning

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Inscribed funerary monuments of Legio VII and the emergence of military communities in 1st century AD Dalmatia

Coopey

2023

Pril. Inst. arheol. Zagrebu (Online)

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The Imperial Roman military consisted of a vast collection of armies and overlapping sub-communities, causing it to be a multi-layered entity. Scholars have explored its social dynamics since the 1980s, with epigraphic material – particularly of a funerary nature – providing valuable insight. The provinces of southeastern Europe, such as Dalmatia, are home to a great deal of well-catalogued archaeological and epigraphical material which could contribute to these studies, however, they are often left unconsidered in scholarship from outside the region. This paper conducts an epigraphical and archaeological analysis of the Romano-Dalmatian inscribed funerary monuments of the Seventh Legion (Legio VII Claudia pia fidelis) to study the construction of identity and community. It is demonstrated that Legio VII was home to a complex network of servicemen intersected by various social, familial, legal, and military roles, relations, and symbols, which was rejuvenated and negotiated through the textual, sculptural, and spatial dimensions of funerary monuments. Moreover, these very funerary monuments were a significant part of this network, acting as media of identity and community (re)construction and (re)negotiation. Not only does this shed light on the social dynamics of Roman military communities, but it also reinforces the image which has emerged in recent scholarship of funerary monuments as socially constructive media. Finally, this paper demonstrates the value of theoretically engaged analyses of material from, and scholarship concerning, Romano-Dalmatia.

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“…Soldiers could find a partner, live with her and have offspring in a union not legally recognized under Roman law. Penelope Allison (2008) investigated the presence, activities and status of women and children in Roman military forts on the German frontier during the first and second centuries AD. She concluded that women played a greater role in military life in the early Roman Empire than has previously been acknowledged (see also Allison 2011Allison , 2013.…”

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Current Trends in Roman Demography and Empirical Approaches to the Dynamics of the Limes Populations

Séguy

2019

Computational Social Sciences

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Based on the three principal and inevitably incomplete information sources on ancient historical demography, and taking into account the particularities of the populations living around the Limes Germanicus, a largely male population of soldiers and migrants, this chapter examines the factors that may have influenced their dynamics over the short, medium and long term. It also looks at the possible consequences of increased pressure on the environment, heightened risk of epidemics linked to the rise in population concentration, long-distance communication and adverse climate changes observed from the second half of the second century AD. The proposed empirical approach aims to shed light on the factors that shaped the dynamics of these very specific populations over the long term.

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Measuring women's influence on Roman military life: using GIS on published excavation reports from the German frontier

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

Household Archaeology in Polynesia: Historical Context and New Directions

Household Archaeology in Polynesia: Historical Context and New Directions

Inscribed funerary monuments of Legio VII and the emergence of military communities in 1st century AD Dalmatia

Current Trends in Roman Demography and Empirical Approaches to the Dynamics of the Limes Populations

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