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9048505356
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Amsterdam archaeological studies 10
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An empirically-based analysis of the emergence of the Batavian ethnicity within the Roman Empire
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Research aims, central concepts and perspectives. The study of ethnicity and ethnogenesis -- Roman imperial power and the ethnic dynamics in the Lower Rhine frontier -- Ethnicity, texts and material culture. Methodological considerations -- Structure of the text -- 2. Social change in the Late Iron Age Lower Rhine region. The adoption of coinage -- The emergence of regional sanctuaries -- The development of a major nucleated settlement at Kessel/Lith -- The mass circulation of glass bracelets -- Discussion. A new kind of society in the Lower Rhine region? -- 3. Caesar's conquest and the ethnic reshuffling of the Lower Rhine frontier zone. Major changes in the tribal map after the Roman conquest -- Archaeological discussion on continuity and discontinuity of habitation in the Rhine delta in the later 1st century BC -- The Lower Rhine population and their presumed Germanic ethnicity -- 4. The gold triskeles coinages of the Eburones. Late Iron Age coin circulation in the Lower Rhine region -- The triskeles Scheers 31 type coins: typology, metrology, and distribution -- Chronology and the problem of historical interpretation -- Ascription to the Eburones and the link to Caesar's conquest -- Patterns of deposition and loss: the archaeological contexts -- Appendix 4.1. List of 'imported' gold staters found in the Lower Rhine region -- Appendix: Descriptive list of the Scheers 31 triskeles coins -- 5. Roman frontier politics and the formation of a Batavian polity. The roots of the alliance between the Romans and Batavians -- On the role of a king -- From kingship to magistrature -- 6. The Lower Rhine triquetrum coinages and the formation of a Batavian polity. Distribution, classification and chronology of the Lower Rhine triquetrum coinages -- Batavian emissions? -- Production, circulation and deposition of triquetrum coinages in the Batavian river area. Some Hypotheses -- Appendix: List of sites where triquetrum coins have been found -- 7. Kessel/Lith. A Late Iron Age central place in the Rhine/Meuse delta. Dredged from sand and gravel. History of the finds, the find circumstances, and representativity -- Description of the find complex -- The Meuse/Waal river junction at Kessel /Lith in the Late Iron Age and Early Roman period -- Settlement, cult place or battlefield? Interpretation of the find complex at Kessel/Lith -- A monumental Roman temple at Kessel -- Grinnes and Vada -- The Kessel/Lith settlement from a Northwest-European perspective -- Kessel/Lith as a centre of power and a key place in the construction of a Batavian identity group -- Appendix: Descriptive catalogue of the metal finds dredged at Kessel/Lith -- 8. The political and institutional structure of the pre-Flavian civitas Batavorum. Roman imperialism and the control of tribal groups in the Germanic frontier -- The municipalisation of the civitas Batavorum -- Nijmegen as a central place -- The pre-Flavian civitas Batavorum and its relation to coastal tribes in the Rhine/Meuse delta -- Civitas organisation and Batavian identity -- 9. Foederis Romani monumenta. Public memorials of the alliance with Rome. The marble head of Julius Caesar from Nijmegen -- The Tiberius column from Nijmegen -- A fragment of an imperial tabula patronatus from Escharen -- Discussion -- 10. Image and self-image of the Batavians. The Roman army and the cultivation of a Batavian identity -- Dominant Roman images of the Batavians -- Dominant elements in the self-image of Batavians -- 11. Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity in the context of the Roman empire. Introduction. Myth, history and the construction of collective identities -- Evidence for Trojan foundation myths in Gaul and Britain -- Hercules as the first civiliser of the Germanic frontier -- The cult of Hercules among the Batavians -- The appeal of the Roman Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity -- The Hercules sanctuaries and their significance for the construction of a Batavian identity〈 On the Hercules cult in the other civitates of Lower Germany -- Discussion -- 12. Conclusion and epilogue. The ethnogenesis of the Batavians. A summary -- From a Batavian people to a Roman civitas? -- The case of the Batavians and ethnogenetic theory.
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Print version Roymans, Nico Ethnic identity and imperial power Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2004
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