Illuminating Roman Britain

Agriculture in Roman Britain

I F we consider that agriculture employed a majority of the population in non-industrial societies and is still man's staple occupation, we must ad-mit that the agriculture of Roman Britain has concerned archaeologists and historians much less than it should, for on its vicissitudes depended to no small degree the well-being and decline of the province. The existence of Roman 'villas' was first...

Arthritis in Roman Britain.

The pattern of arthritis in Roman Britain was investigated by examining the skeletons of 416 adults from the Roman cemetery at Poundbury Camp near Dorchester, Dorset. The mean height of the people was not much less than that of the current British population, and the prevalence of right handedness was similar to our own. There was a high prevalence of osteoarthritis for such a relatively young ...

A case of dyschondrosteosis from Roman Britain.

Coming of age in Roman Britain: Osteological evidence for pubertal timing.

OBJECTIVES Puberty is a key transitional phase of the human life course, with important biological and social connotations. Novel methods for the identification of the pubertal growth spurt and menarche in skeletal remains have recently been proposed (Shapland and Lewis, 2013, 2014). In this study we applied the methods to two Romano-British cemetery samples (1st-early 5th centuries AD) in orde...

The Torch Bearer and the Tutor: Prevalent attitudes towards the Roman Empire in Imperial Britain

Class of 2006 Electrical Engineering How do people in power use history to shape current policy? How does current policy influence conceptions of history? Examining these questions, this paper addresses how British imperialists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries redefined their ideas about the classical Roman Empire to fit their (imperialist) ideologies, and how British imperial poli...