ROMAN DIASPORAS

ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES
TO MOBILITY AND DIVERSITY
IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
edited by
Hella Eckardt
Contributors:
J. L. Barta, C. Chenery, S. Chenery, H. E. M. Cool,
H. Eckardt, J. Evans, M. Fulford, P. Garnsey, R. Gowland,
R. Hingley, K Killgrove, S. Leach, M. Lewis, J. Montgomery,
G. Mldner, E. Nimmo, D. Noy, V. Pashley, J. Pearce,
T. L. Prowse, A. M. Small, T. E. von Hunnius, & J. Webster

PORTSMOUTH, RHODE ISLAND

2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Addresses of contributors

1. Introduction: Diasporas in the Roman world

H. Eckardt

2. Epigraphic evidence for immigrants at Rome and in Roman Britain

D. Noy

13

3. Finding the foreigners

H. E. M. Cool

27

4. Routes to slavery in the Roman world:

a comparative perspective on the archaeology of forced migration
J. Webster

45

5. Roman Britain: immigration and material culture

M. Fulford

67

6. Burial, identity and migration in the Roman world

J. Pearce

79

7. A long way from home: diaspora communities in Roman Britain

H. Eckardt with C. Chenery, S. Leach, M. Lewis, G. Mldner & E. Nimmo

99

8. Skeletal evidence for health, nutritional status and malaria

in Rome and the empire
R. Gowland and P. Garnsey

131

9. Identifying immigrants to Imperial Rome using strontium isotope analysis

K. Killgrove

157

10. Stable isotope and mitochondrial DNA evidence for

geographic origins on a Roman estate at Vagnari (Italy)
T. L. Prowse, J. L. Barta, T. E. von Hunnius & A. M. Small

175

11. Gleaming, white and deadly: using lead to track human exposure
and geographic origins in the Roman period in Britain
J. Montgomery, J. Evans, S. Chenery, V. Pashley & K. Killgrove

199

12. Tales of the frontier: diasporas on Hadrians Wall

R. Hingley

227

List of figures

244