We are delighted to launch a new #TRAJ Special Issue! Edited by Mauro Puddu, 'For a Feminist-Postcolonial Archaeology of the Roman World' critically examines the evolution of theoretical debates in Roman archaeology through an intersectional lens. traj.openlibhums.org/collections/...

We are delighted to be part of the launch collection of the @ojcollective.bsky.social! The Open Journals Collective is working towards a sustainable future for academic journals by challenging the profit-making models of global corporate publishing & data systems. 👀 www.openjournalscollective.org

We can't believe it's - checks datestamp - 11 days ago already. Thanks to everyone who participated in #RACTRAC!

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal@traj-journal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Come visit us in the exhibitors hall at #RACTRAC! Thanks to @openlibhums.org for the swag, & @theromansoc.bsky.social for sponsoring our flag!

Come visit us in the exhibitors hall at #RACTRAC! Thanks to @openlibhums.org for the swag, & @theromansoc.bsky.social for sponsoring our flag!

#TRAJ Vol 9 is launched, ahead of #RAC/TRAC! 🥳 💩 Environmental Impacts of Roman Camps by Mike Dobson 📚 A Travel Through Time: Reflections on a Change of Mind by David Breeze 🇳🇱 The Lower Germanic Limes as Imperial Borderlands by Saskia Stevens et al. & more! traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1939/i...

#TRAJ #BookReview "How do you summarize the Roman Empire in a single volume? Materialising the Roman Empire, the new volume from UCL, does so by offering a suite of contemporary perspectives from insightful voices" ✍️ Owen Humphreys doi.org/10.16995/tra...

📚 Check out this #BookReview! Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome by Timothy C. Hart, reviewed by Adriana Panaite. 'offers a highly detailed and nuanced analysis of the interaction between the Romans and these Danubian peoples from the first to fifth centuries AD' doi.org/10.16995/tra...

#RAC/TRAC2026 in Aarhus is coming up! Registration is open with an early bird discount until March 15: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... @theromansoc.bsky.social is also offering bursaries, check them out here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... (Deadline 23 Feb) #AncientBlueSky

Want to learn more about women in the Roman world? Check out this #BookReview of Emily Hemelrijk's Women & Society in the Roman World, ✍️ Sophie Chavarria "an impressive collection of inscriptions and graffiti that sheds new light on women’s lives in the Roman west" doi.org/10.16995/tra...

Have you read the latest #TRAJ editorial? 'Emerging from the Shadows' by Isabel Annal & Sian Therese 'explores the necessity of producing new narratives, theoretical as well as public facing, concerning the lived experiences of those enslaved in a Roman world'.. doi.org/10.16995/tra...

Emerging from the Shadows: Building New Narratives of those Enslaved by the Empire

The editorial of the eighth volume of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal explores the necessity of producing new narratives, theoretical as well as public facing, concerning the lived experienc...

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NEW #TRAJ research article! The Etruscan Woman: Romanization & Funerary Culture Alexis Daveloose examines the societal status of Etruscan women through analysis of male:female names in Etruscan epitaphs, rejecting the old paradigm of pervasive ‘Romanization' doi.org/10.16995/tra...

The Etruscan Woman: ‘Romanization’ and Funerary Culture

This paper evaluates our knowledge of Etruscan women during the Hellenistic period (c. 325–31 BC). This subject is complex for two main reasons: firstly, the lack of Etruscan literary sources and seco...

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Interested in learning more about how urbanism developed in Wales during the Roman occupation? Check out Siân Thomas' new research article: 'Urbanism in Roman Wales: A New Look at Roman Carmarthen', published in #TRAJ Vol. 8 doi.org/10.16995/tra...

Urbanism in Roman Wales: A New Look at Roman Carmarthen

Moridunum, which lies under modern Carmarthen, is one of only two civitas capitals known in Wales, the other being Caerwent. Excavations undertaken by Archaeology Wales in 2018 afforded a rare opportu...

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#TRAJ Vol. 8 is complete! Feat. 5 research articles, 13 book reviews & an incisive editorial from our @uclarchaeology.bsky.social guest editors Isabel Annal & Sian Therese. 👀 Women in Etruria Roman Carmarthen in Wales Analogies in Roman Frontier Arch & more! traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...

Thanks to @emilyhanscam.bsky.social for the invitation to review "Classical Controversies" for @traj-journal.bsky.social. I took the opportunity to reflect on how, reviewing in 2025, some themes/emphases resound differently from when the book came out in 2022. traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Obviously those feet and shoes would have trodden on roads. Roman roads. Which, when you start to think about these things, starts to get quite mindblowing

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal@traj-journal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEW TRAJ #BookReview Roman Feet and Shoes by Elizabeth Shaw, ✍️ Marquita Volken "an invaluable resource and a starting point for identifying Roman mentalities regarding the significance of shoe- and foot-shaped artefacts" doi.org/10.16995/tra... @barpublishing.bsky.social

NEW TRAJ #BookReview Roman Feet and Shoes by Elizabeth Shaw, ✍️ Marquita Volken "an invaluable resource and a starting point for identifying Roman mentalities regarding the significance of shoe- and foot-shaped artefacts" doi.org/10.16995/tra... @barpublishing.bsky.social

NEW #TRAJ Book Review 📚 Roman Urbanism in Italy: Recent Discoveries and New Directions edited by Alessandro Launaro, reviewed by Myles McCallum. "an important and stimulating volume" doi.org/10.16995/tra...

A very topical book review by @curtisdozier.bsky.social of pharos.vassarspaces.net 📚 Classical Controversies: Reception of Greco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Kim Beerden & Timo Epping doi.org/10.16995/tra...

NEW in #TRAJ Vol. 8: Performing Gender Normativity & Queerness in the Roman Funeral: An Analysis of Historical Sources & Iconographic Evidence by Jessica Tilley doi.org/10.16995/tra... #AcademicSky #RomanArchaeology

Performing Gender Normativity and Queerness in the Roman Funeral: An Analysis of Historical Sources and Iconographic Evidence

This article contributes to the emerging field of Queer Death Studies by offering a queer analysis of the gendered performances of mourners during the Roman funeral through an examination of subversio...

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Kick off the fall with a #TRAJ #BookReview! 📚 'At Home in Roman Egypt' by Anna Boozer, reviewed by Stefania Alfarano "she successfully highlights the complexity of household life in Roman Egypt, challenging assumptions of its exceptionalism within the broader Roman world" doi.org/10.16995/tra...

🍇 Interested in #Wine and #AncientRome? Check out this review of Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology: Scientific Approaches in Roman Contexts ed. by @emlynkd.bsky.social & @divali.bsky.social, reviewed by Anna Meens. doi.org/10.16995/tra...

NEW #TRAJ review, 'In the Footsteps of the Etruscans: Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity, by Graeme Barker & Tom Rasmussen. "The long-awaited publication of the Tuscania survey offers a dataset of high quality and importance." ✍️ Robert Witcher doi.org/10.16995/tra...

Check out one of our latest book reviews! Gabii through its Artefacts, ed. by Laura M. Banducci & Mattia D'Acri, reviewed by Adeline Hoffelinck. "This volume stands out for its qualitative analysis of everyday objects ... contributions are of outstanding quality" doi.org/10.16995/tra...

NEW Research Article in #TRAJ Vol 8 - 'Command & Control on Hadrian's Wall: Exploring the Use of Analogy in Roman Frontier Archaeology' by Paul Kitching @arcdurham.bsky.social doi.org/10.16995/tra... #HadriansWall #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

Command and Control on Hadrian’s Wall: Exploring the Use of Analogy in Roman Frontier Archaeology

Analogy is a ubiquitous but contested feature in archaeological reasoning, used differently in the contexts of discovery, justification and communication. The limitations of the archaeological record ...

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There are some great new Book Reviews in the latest issue of #TRAJ, including - 📘 Gabii through its Artefacts 📕 Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology 📗 In the Footsteps of the Etruscans 📙 #Roman Feet & Shoes Check them out here! traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...

NEW #TRAJ research article by Anthony King, Grahame Soffe & Kate Adcock 'Processional Routes, Orthopraxy & a Political Sacred Island: Exploring the Iron Age & Roman Religious Landscape of Hayling Island & the Chichester region' traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/1... #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

Processional Routes, Orthopraxy and a Political Sacred Island: Exploring the Iron Age and Roman Religious Landscape of Hayling Island and the Chichester region

The role of processions and pilgrimage in the pre-Roman to Roman transition in southern Britain is considered in this paper. The example chosen for detailed examination is the temple on Hayling Island...

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🎉 #TRAJ Volume 8 is launched! Check out the first paper of our Cosmologies Special Issue on pilgrimage routes to Hayling Island in Britain, a review of ancient wine archaeology & more! FREE traj.openlibhums.org/issue/1682/i...

Spring is a great time to read about the 'planty’ agency of trees, plants, flowers, and fruits in the creation of the Roman funeral landscape 🌷 Check out 'There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality & the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy' from #TRAJ Vol. 1 doi.org/10.16995/tra...

‘There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality, and the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy

Using the necropolis environments of the Vesuvian region of Imperial period Italy as a case study, this paper examines the ways in which multiple, overlapping, and temporally specific senses of place ...

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We used to celebrate #FindsFriday in the old place, for today, how about the Colchester Cup from the British Museum? Read more about 1st century Roman mold-blown glass cups in Cassibry 2018, 'Spectacular Translucence: The Games in Glass' from #TRAJ Vol 1 doi.org/10.16995/tra...

We are always pleased to see a new round of the conference which inspired TRAJ! The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference 2025 will be held online from 22-24 Oct, see the call for sessions. #TRAC2023 was also held on Gather.town, for commentary see our Vol 7 editorial: doi.org/10.16995/tra...