The Windover archaeological site (8BR246) is one of the few mass pre-historic burial sites in North America. The 168 skeletonized men, women, and children were interned in a peat bog accompanied by cultural materials such as bone and stone tools, textiles, flora, and fauna. This…
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This dissertation investigates the relationships between archaeological practice and wider intellectual trends surrounding the study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) – Early Iron Age (EIA) transition in Greece (c. 1200 – 1000 BCE), and, in doing so, presents a case study of the mech…
The practice of seeking asylum at sacred places has a rich and varied history. When John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople, entered into that history in 399 C.E. by sheltering the fallen consul eunuch Eutropius, he provided a fascinating lens through which to view the custom …
Private initiators, freelance religious practitioners who worked for a fee, offered their clients a better fate after death. I survey the evidence for their activities in classical Greece, and try to determine the date they came into being, which I suggest may be the end of the …
This thesis examines the use of sacrificial language in the Martyrdom of Polycarp (Mart. Pol.). At several points in the text, the author of Mart. Pol. uses language that demonstrates that he interprets Polycarp’s martyrdom as a sacrifice. To support my argument, I analyze descr…
The Economic Relationship between Patron and Freedman in Italy in the Early Roman Empire explores how economic and productive relationships between patrons and freedmen continued after manumission in Roman Italy during the early Principate. This dissertation surveys a range of a…
Throughout the Maya lowlands, archaeologists have recovered substantial evidence for the practice of human sacrifice. In several cases, the primary victims in these rituals were children and infants. In this thesis, I review archaeological, iconographic, epigraphic, and ethnohis…
The Aurelian Wall represents the largest construction project of the Third Century Crisis, an era of political, social, and economic unrest that nearly proved fatal to the cohesion of the Roman Empire. Investigations of the period have often omitted the economic aspects of the C…
This dissertation fuses traditional military history and modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to study the relationship between terrain, military force, and imperial control in the Roman world. Drawing on ancient authors’ general antipathy towards warfare on “b…
Thucydides’ construction of liquids and solids undermines both the rhetoric of Athenian characters within his History and the consensus reading of this text. This dissertation analyzes Thucydides’ depiction of liquids as active and destructive and contextualizes it within Greek …
This thesis explores the ways in which the classical Panathenaic procession was able to transform the landscape and urban spaces of Athens, using literary and archaeological evidence. I discuss the major physical settings (buildings and spaces) associated with the procession and…
This dissertation provides a wide-ranging analysis of the socio-economic life of the non-elite urban population of Rome and their interactions with the institutions and administration of the city from 275 until 455 CE. The traditional view holds that during this period the life …
This thesis addresses the deities of domestic Roman religion, i.e. the lares, penates, and genii, and how references to these deities in Latin literature evolved during the first century CE. I chart how domestic religion became discursive as a consequence of Augustan religious r…
The research thesis is an outcome of the effort by the researcher to know how the archaeological collections housed in various museums across India could be used as a source of education especially learning about culture and heritage. Museums can be rightly said as adjuncts to f…
This dissertation uses regional archaeological settlement data to develop a model of Inca imperialism along the south-central Peruvian coast during the terminal decades of the fifteenth century CE. A close investigation of lower and middle valley of Cañete, home to the Late Inte…
It would seem that pastoral nomads have ceaselessly occupied a distinct space in our world, imaginations, and academic discourse, often revolving around the concept of periphery. Pastoral nomads inhabit interstitial spaces, adjacent and secondary to urban centers and the refinem…
In this thesis, many ancient Egyptian transliterations have been used. European transliteration system has been followed, because as J. P. Allen explains "it requires fewer special signs than the traditional system." J. Kahl's remarks and discussions about the transliteration sy…
The thesis sets out to examine conceptions of time and space, individual and social identity, and their relation to ideological structures and constructive practices, both as employed at Rome, and in their effect on modern attitudes to ancient Roman society. Chapter One: explore…
This thesis will contend that Polybius' stress on Achaean unity was related to his need to contrast how tyche and anacyclosis, the two vital supernatural forces that he believed influenced historical events, had influenced the Achaean system of polity detrimentally. Examining th…