The RAG Roman Archaeology : Challenges and Opportunities —
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Looking back over the last three decades of Roman archaeology I find it difficult not to be impressed by the huge advances the discipline had made. The quantity of information collected has increased enormously. Romanists have enthusiastically embraced new archaeological technologies, and entire new subject areas landscape archaeology, palaeopathology, and underwater archaeology for instance have been opened up. Yet just as imperial expansion brought new problems as well as new riches to ancient Rome, so the information explosion brings new risks. Each researcher now sees less of the whole than ever before.
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