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This paper investigates how far human mobility associated with ports on Rome's Atlantic facade may be reconstructed from funerary evidence, with a focus on memorials and skeletal remains from France and Britain. Previous work on ports here has been primarily topographic and economic, with limited consideration of port societies. Epitaphs make limited references to occupations associated with ports, although images on memorials sometimes represent directly or allusively participation in trade and riches thus gained. The evidence of geographic origin, a little more abundant, suggests that mobility to and through ports was a restricted, mainly male phenomenon, with soldiers looming largest amongst those attested. The impact of the epigraphic habit is fundamental: with occasional striking exceptions, local commemorative practice conditioned the form memorials took to remember the dead whether of local or distant origins. However, indicators of population ancestry and geographical origin derived from analysis of light stable isotopes and of human skeletal (cranial) form give a different impression of human experience in these maritime centres. Their analysis suggests mobility characterised a more numerically significant proportion of the population, frequently including women and children, and individuals from more distant geographical origins and of more diverse ancestry than is commonly visible among inscriptions.
Author(s): Pearce J, Redfern RC
Editor(s): Bargfeldt, N; Hjarl Petersen, J;
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Reflections: harbour city deathscapes in Roman Italy and beyond
Year: 2020
Pages: 211-235
Print publication date: 31/10/2020
Acceptance date: 10/10/2019
Series Title: Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementum, LIII
Publisher: Edizioni Quasar
Place Published: Italy
Notes: "This supplementary volume of Analecta Romana Instituti Danici is the outcome of the conference "Reflections : harbour city deathscapes in Roman Italy and beyond"held at the Danish Academy in Rome on 14-16 September 2016"--Preface.
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ISBN: 9788854910140
