Join us at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting (hybrid!) as we celebrate the release of the upcoming open-access volume, “Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World.”
Tag Archives: Roman Archaeology
Blog Post #100: Decoding Adolescence in the Human Skeleton with Creighton Avery
In our 100th blog, we continue our Halloween themed content with a post by Dr. Creighton Avery, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Here, she delves into her research on the lives of adolescents in the Roman Empire, which she approaches through a bioarchaeological lens.
Blog Post #98: Cultural Finger Amputation with Brea McCauley
In this week’s blog post, we interview Brea McCauley, a Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University, who details the practice of cultural finger amputation through numerous human societies throughout history around the globe.
Blog Post #97: Graduate Student Feature with Adrian Talotti Proestos
In this week’s blog post, we interview Adrian Talotti Proestos, a Ph.D. candidate at McMaster University, who takes us through his research which uses network analysis to trace interactions between Oenotrian communities in southern Italy.
Blog #92: The Libyans with Matthew McCarty
In the latest instalment of our Unknown Peoples Series, Matthew McCarty (University of British Columbia) takes us through his research on the ‘Libyans’, the indigenous peoples of the Maghreb — that is, the vast territory stretching across North Africa from modern western Libya, through Tunisia and Algeria, to the Atlantic coast of Morocco, and from the northern Sahara to the Mediterranean coast.
Blog #89: Beyond Rome: The Indigenous People of Ancient Italy
In this week’s blog post, Claudia Paparella, a graduate student at the University of Toronto, takes us through her research on the Indigenous Peoples of ancient Italy through an analysis of the epigraphic and archaeological remains that they have left behind.
Blog Post #88: Graduate Student Feature with Sophia Taborski
The final instalment of our Halloween series is a grad student feature with Sophia Taborski, PhD student at Cornell, studying how curses teach us about intersecting identities, power structures, violence, and resistance in the Roman empire.
Podcast Season 3, Episode 10 – These Boots are Made for Walking: Women’s Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire with Marie-Adeline Le Guennec
On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Marie-Adeline Le Guennec, a professor in the hisory department at Université du Québec à Montréal, where she works on the history of Roman mobility and migration. Since 2015 she has been the co-director of Projet Hospitam, which examines hospitality in the civilizations of the Mediterranean basin. She is the author of Aubergistes et clients : l’accueil mercantile dans l’Occident romain (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IVe siècle apr. J.-C.) (Ecole française de Rome, 2019) and co-editor of Hospitalité et régulation de l’altérité dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne (Ausonius, 2022).
Listen in, as Dr. Le Guennec talks about the ways in which women moved around the Roman Empire and the sources that document this movement, as well as how modern scholars examine issues of movement and mobility in the Roman world.
Podcast Season 3, Episode 9 – (Not so) Risky Business: the Potential Perils of Childbirth in Ancient Rome with Anna Bonnell Freidin
On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Ana Bonnell Freidin, an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan. Listen in, as Dr. Bonnell Freidin talks about risk, pregnancy, and childbirth in the ancient Roman empire, and the ways in which we might engage with notions of community care in the ancient Roman world. Content warning: this episode discusses infant and maternal death.
Podcast Season 3, Episode 8 – Not a Puella, Not Yet a Femina: Roman Girlhood with Lauren Caldwell
On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Lauren Caldwell, who takes us through her work on puberty and girlhood and the practices that surround these life stages in the Roman Empire.
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