Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers

Preface

Part 1. Reports from the congress and field trips
The 25th Congress of Roman Frontier Studies in Nijmegen
Rebecca H. Jones & Andreas Thiel
A record of the 25th Congress of Roman Frontier Studies
Harry van Enckevort, Mark Driessen, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol van Driel-Murray
The excursions
Mark Driessen, Erik Graafstal, Tom Hazenberg, Tatiana Ivleva and Carol van Driel-Murray

Part 2. Feminists at the gates. Frontier research by female academics
Feminists at the gates. Feminist approaches to Roman frontiers
Anna H. Walas and Rebecca H. Jones
The (In)visibility of women in stone-cut personal inscriptions from fortresses in Roman Britain. Epigraphic absence, or earlier scholarship bias?
Joanne E. Ball
Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons. The presence of women on the Dacian Limes
Ştefania Dogărel
Britannia Romana. Ambiguous image of a province Kseniya
S. Danilochkina
A snapshot of two pioneering female archaeologists in Switzerland. Elisabeth Ettlinger and Victorine von Gonzenbach in Vindonissa around 1950
Regine Fellmann Brogli and Christine Meyer-Freuler
Female archaeologists and Roman military research in Croatia
Iva Kaić and Mima Cvetko
Women and Roman religion in provinces. Case study Dalmatia
Anna Mech
Walls don’t stop women. An urban approach to frontier sites
Catherine Teitz

Part 3. Digital Limes. The use of modern methods and advanced techniques for a better understanding of the frontier development
Digital Limes. Introduction to the session and a discussion of temporary camps in the Netherlands to illustrate the use of modern methods and advanced techniques for a better understanding of the Roman Frontier development
Wouter K. Vos, Roeland Emaus, Jeroen Oosterbaan and Maarten Sepers
Tactics or topography? Interdisciplinary studies on the course of the Upper German Limes. A preliminary report
Peter Henrich, Matthias Lang and Jennifer Schamper
Supplying the Limes Britannicus. An approach from network science and archaeology
Arnau Lario Devesa and Jordi Pérez González
Research on the effects of relative sea-level change on the River Exe estuary in the mid-1st century AD (South-West Britain)
Stephen J. Kaye and John Pamment Salvatore
Roman camps of Villamontán de la Valduerna.Camp complex close to Via XVII. Item a Bracara Astvricam
Esperanza Martín Hernández, Florian Hermann and Felix Teichner

Part 4. Simulating the limes. Challenges to computational modelling in Roman Studies
Lost and found on the frontier. Predictive modelling and Late Roman forts in Scythia Minor (4th-7th centuries AD)
Nathaniel F. Durant
Dealing with changes in qualitative and quantitative aspects of the imported Roman metal objects within the Marcomannic settlement zone in the era of metal detecting
Balázs Komoróczy, Marek Vlach and Michaela Kmošková
Investigating Roman strata to the core. The use of well core data in the interpolation of Vindobona’s archaeological layers
Kira Lappé
Following Baradez’s tracks. The GIS approach integrating photographic and satellite sources near Biskra (Algeria)
Andrea Meleri and Paola Zanovello
Roman connectivity, networking and mobility along the Lower Danube frontier. A GIS approach
Ioana A. Oltean and D. Ciprian Lungescu

Part 5. ‘Managing the Romans?’ Preservation, protection and community management of frontiers. Opportunities, challenges, and use of ‘citizen science’
Imagining Hadrian’s Wall. Developing and assessing explanations behind its construction
Paul J. Kitching
Engaging disadvantaged communities in heritage-led regeneration. Rediscovering the Antonine Wall Project
Ríona McMorrow
Frontier Voices. A creative exploration
Nigel Mills and Karen MacDougall
Hadrian’s Wall. Managing 1900 years of a cultural resource for the future generation