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University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Recent Publications

 

pim2.jpgMonographs

The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii III: The finds, a contextual study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, (2006). ISBN 0-19-926312-4

Pompeii households: analysis of the material culture, Monograph 42. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (2004). ISBN 0-917956-96-6

The Casa della Caccia Antica, Häuser in Pompeji 11. Hirmer, Munich (2002). (Main author with Frank Sear). ISBN 3-7774-8820-8

Edited volumes  

Dealing with legacy data, themed volume of Internet Archaeology 24-25 (2008) Online version

The archaeology of household activities. Routledge: London and New York (1999)

Journal articles

Understanding Pompeian household practices through their material culture, FACTA: A Journal of Roman material culture studies 3 (2010): 11-32

The Mediterranean after Braudel and Horden–Purcell: Review article of W. V. Harris, ed., Rethinking the Mediterranean, Journal of Roman Archaeology 22.2 (2009): 461-465

Artefact distribution within the auxiliary fort at Ellingen: evidence for building use and for the presence of women and children, Bericht den Römisch-Germanischen Kommission 87 (2006): 387-452

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Mapping for gender: interpreting artefact distribution in Roman military forts in Germany, Archaeological Dialogues 13.1 (2006): 1-48

Fine ceramics from the Old Kinchega Household (co-author with A. Cremin), Australasian Historical Archaeology 24 (2006): 55-64

Extracting the social relevance of artefact distribution within Roman military forts (with contributions from C Blackall, S Ellis and A Fairbairn), Internet Archaeology, issue 17.4 (2004)

The Old Kinchega Homestead: household archaeology in outback Australia, International Journal for Historical Archaeology 7 no. 3 (2003): 161-194

Book chapters  

Soldiers’ families in the early Roman Empire, in B. Rawson, ed., Family and household in ancient Greece and Rome: a companion, 161-182. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2011)

The AD 79 eruption of Mt Vesuvius: a significant or insignificant event?, in D. Bolender (ed.) Eventful archaeologies: New approaches to social transformation in the archaeological record, 290-298. Buffalo: SUNY Press (2010)

Presenting and negotiating the evidence: continuing debates of relationships between text and archaeology in Roman social history, in WR Caraher, LJ Hall, RS Moore, eds., Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E Gregory, 37-51. Ashgate (2008)

Engendering Roman domestic space, in R Westgate, N Fisher and J Whitley, eds., Building communities: house, settlement and society in the Aegean world and beyond, 343-350. British School at Athens Studies 15 (2007)

The parts and functions of the house. In JJ Dobbins and P Foss, eds., The World of Pompeii, 269-278. Routledge: London and New York (2007)

Engendering Roman spaces, in E.C.Robertson, J.D. Seibert, D. Fernandez and M.U. Zender, eds., Space and spatial analysis in archaeology, 343-354. University of Calgary Press, Calgary (2006)

Living with Pompeian wall-paintings, in T Ganschow, M Steinhard, D Berges and T Fröhlich, eds., 'Otium' – Festschrift Volker Michael Strocka, 1-7. Bernhard Albert Greiner, Remshalden-Grunbach (2005)

Conference proceedings

The women in the early forts: GIS and artefact distribution analyses in 1st and 2nd Germany, in A Morillo, N Hanel and E Martín (eds.), Limes XX: Estudios sobre la Frontera Romana, Roman Frontier Studies vol III, Anejos de Gladius 13, León, Spain, September 2006, 1193-1201. Madrid: Polifemo. (2009)

The women and children inside 1st- and 2nd-century forts: comparing the archaeological evidence, in U Brandl (ed.), Frauen und römisches Militär; Beiträge eines Runden Tisches in Xanten vom 7. bis 9. Juli  2005. BAR Internat. Ser. 1759, 120-139, Oxford: Archaeopress. (2008)

Mapping artefacts and activities within Roman military forts, in Visy, Z. ed, Limes XIX: Proceedings of the XIXth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Pécs, Hungary, Hungary, September 2003, 833-846. Pécs: University of Pécs (2005)