Provincial Roman Archeology

The Provincial Roman Archeology deals with the material remains in the Roman provinces . Due to the history of research, a geographical focus is on the north-west provinces.

subject

In contrast to the more art-historical approach, which has long dominated Classical Archeology , Provincial Roman Archeology primarily asked questions about everyday life and adopted methods from prehistory and early history . Since Classical Archeology has meanwhile also opened up to socio-economic issues in many cases, the disciplines have come closer together in this regard. The main difference today is that Provincial Roman Archeology is primarily concerned with the manifestation of material culture that resulted in the provinces through the combination of typically Roman and indigenous elements.

The subject of archeology of the Roman provinces in Germany is currently taught at the universities in Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Cologne, Munich and Bamberg. In Austria Provincial Roman Archeology is always carried out together with Classical Archeology. It is possible to set priorities in the Roman provincial area in Vienna, Salzburg, Graz and Innsbruck. In Switzerland, the subject can be studied in Basel, Bern and Lausanne.

Seminars and institutes

Germany

• Department II: Archeology and history of the Roman provinces as well as archeology of coins, money and economics in antiquity of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University , Frankfurt am Main
• Provincial Roman archeology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University , Freiburg im Breisgau
• Classical archeology and archeology of the Roman provinces at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne
• Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology and Provincial Roman Archeology of the Ludwig Maximilians University , Munich
• Professorship for archeology of the Roman provinces at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
• Courses on the archeology of the Roman provinces in the department of culture and geosciences, history seminar, ancient history at the University of Osnabrück

Netherlands

• Faculty of Archeology, Department of Provincial Roman Archeology, Leiden University

Austria

• Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna
• Department of Ancient Studies, Classical and Early Aegean Archeology at the University of Salzburg
• Institute for Archeology / Department of Classical and Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Innsbruck
• Institute for Archeology at the University of Graz

Switzerland

• Seminar for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Basel .
• Department of Archeology of the Roman Provinces at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bern
• Institut d'archéologie et des sciences de l'antiquité, Archéologie provinciale romaine of the University of Lausanne

See also

• List of well-known Roman provincial archaeologists
• List of ancient scholars and archaeologists

literature

Monographs

• Thomas Fischer (Ed.): The Roman Provinces. An introduction to their archeology. Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 380621591X
• Tilmann Bechert : The provinces of the Roman Empire. Introduction and overview. Zabern, Mainz 1999. ISBN 3-8053-2399-9

Essays

• Helmut Bender , Thomas Fischer, Hans-Markus von Kaenel , Michael Mackensen and Hans Ulrich Nuber : Archeology of the Roman Provinces / Provincial Roman Archeology at German Universities. Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 5, 2000, pp. 312–329.

Periodicals

• Archaeological correspondence sheet
• Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission
• Bonn yearbooks
• Germania
• Yearbook of the RGZM
• Saalburg yearbook

Web links

• Weblinks to the subject area Provincial Roman Archeology at www.archaeologie-online.de

Institutes of German-speaking universities specializing in Roman provincial archeology , in alphabetical order:

• University of Basel - Seminar for Prehistory and Protohistory
• University of Bern - Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Archeology of the Roman Provinces
• University of Frankfurt - Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department II
• University of Freiburg - Department of Provincial Roman Archeology
• University of Innsbruck - Institute for Archeology, Department for Classical and Provincial Roman Archeology
• University of Cologne - Archaeological Institute, Department of Archeology of the Roman Provinces
• Leiden University - Faculty of Archeology, Department of Provincial Roman Archeology
• University of Munich - Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archeology and Provincial Roman Archeology