The Swahili and the Mediterranean worlds: pottery of the late Roman period from Zanzibar

Antiquity ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (267) ◽  
pp. 148-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdurahman M. Juma
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
African Coast ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Late Roman

Mortimer Wheeler famously tied together the worlds of ancient Rome and ancient India by finding Roman ceramics stratified into levels at Arikamedu, in south India. Late Roman pottery from far down the East African coast now permits the same kind of matching link from the Mediterranean to a distant shore, this one in the Swahili world.

‘Is it Real Food?’ Who Benefits from Globalisation in Tanzania and India?

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Caplan
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
South India ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
The Other ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
The World ◽  
African Coast

Almost twenty years ago, the French anthropologist Claude Fischler wrote: ‘To identify a food, one has to “think” it, to understand its place in the world and therefore understand the world.’ For several decades I have been carrying out research among peasant cultivators on the East African coast (since 1965) and among the middle classes in Chennai (formerly Madras), South India (since 1974). During those periods, there have been marked changes in food consumption patterns in both areas. Recent research on local views of modernities in Tanzania suggests that food is an important way for people to conceptualise some of the dis-orders which have arisen as a result of current neo-liberal policies. In Chennai, on the other hand, my most recent research suggests that the consumption of ‘modern’ food is welcomed by the middle classes, especially by younger people, as being associated with global cosmopolitanism. In both areas, however, as might be expected, much depends on context and positionality and thus multiple and sometimes competing voices can be heard. In this paper, I examine local responses to changing food consumption patterns in order to understand local knowledge of food and the world.

The Fate of Late-Roman Villas in Southern Gaul Between the sixth and seventh centuries

2020 ◽  
pp. 640-656
Author(s):  
Alexandra Chavarría Arnau
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Systematic Data ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Settlement Distribution ◽  
Late Roman

In order to understand why Roman villas were abandoned during the late Roman period in southern Gaul and in most of the Mediterranean area, this chapter takes a broader perspective. Rather than focusing exclusively on the architectural elements of villas, it seeks a more comprehensive assessment of how late-Roman rural territories and properties were organized and how different kinds of settlements, and the cities to which they were connected, evolved during the period under consideration. Another aspect of this approach will be to look at cemeteries, trying to understand from systematic data (which includes all kinds of cemeteries from a specific territory) if it is possible to see changes in settlement distribution patterns.

Plyshchan microregion of settlements of the Late Roman period in the Upper Don region

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Grigory L. Zemtsov ◽  
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Dmitry V. Sarychev ◽  
Vladimir O. Goncharov ◽  
Ekaterina V. Fabritsius ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Late Roman

Noble shape, humble metals. Bronze and silver shield-head and snake-head rings of Roman era Scandinavia

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Rundkvist
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Right ◽  
Core Production ◽  
Late Roman

Abstract Gold snake-head rings are a famous and much studied artefact group of the Late Roman Period in Scandinavia. But before and during their heyday, women in the same areas were occasionally buried with shield-head and snake-head rings made of silver or bronze. This paper surveys the material and traces the origin of these designs from the Wielbark Culture in coastal Poland about AD 100. The early shield-head rings probably arrived across the Baltic with the women who wore them. After the AD 210s, non-gold rings are a feature of the gold snake-head rings’ core production and distribution area on the Baltic Islands and south-east mainland Sweden. The women who wore them were not tribal royalty, but enjoyed comfortable economic means and had the right to display this top-level symbol in more affordable materials.

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