Section outline

  • Reading

    • C. Sinopoli, “Empires,” in G. Feinman and T. Price (ed.), Archaeology at the Millennium (New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, 2001), 439-71
    • R. Matthews, The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches (London: Routledge, 2003), Ch. 5 (“Archaeologies of Empire”)
    • B. J. Parker, “Toward an Understanding of Borderland Processes,” American Antiquity 71/1 (2006), 77-100
    • D. J. Mattingly, “Identities in the Roman World: Discrepancy, Heterogeneity, Hybridity, and Plurality,” in Gail L. Hoffman and Lisa R. Brody (ed.), Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 35-59
    • M. J. Versluys et al., “Understanding Objects in Motion: An Archaeological Dialogue on Romanization” (with responses by R. Hingley, T. Hodos, T. D. Stek, P. van Dommelen and G. Woolf), Archaeological Dialogues 21/1 (2014), 1-64
    • T. N. D’Altroy, “Empires Reconsidered: Current Archaeological Approaches,” Asian Archaeology 1 (2018), 95-109
    • M. Fernández-Götz et al., “The Dark Side of the Empire: Roman Expansionism between Object Agency and Predatory Regime,” Antiquity 94 (2020), 1630-39