UCL Institute of Archaeology

Roman

The Roman empire provides a fascinating case-study of an imperial culture, and one which has left a profound legacy to the modern world. Through its long history of expansion, first in Italy, and then across the Mediterranean world and into northern and central Europe, Roman culture was transformed in many ways. Major topics in Roman archaeology include urbanism, trade and industry, rural society, religion, institutions of empire, and the dynamics of cultural interaction. Scholars based at the Institute and elsewhere in UCL cover the full spatial and chronological range of Roman studies.

Research

Projects

• Antikythera Survey Project
• The Blackden Project
• The Bow Hill Project
• Caerleon Roman Fortress
• Coin hoards of the Roman Republic
• Creating Ethnicities and Identities in the Roman World
• Image of the Black in Western Art
• The Knossos Urban Landscape Project
• Kythera Island Project
• The natron-based glass industries
• Noviodunum Archaeological Project
• Petrie Palestinian Project
• Redox conditions in early glass making
• Textile Fibre in Italy before the Roman Empire (FIBRE)
  

 Networks

• Archaeology and Empire (IoA network)

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People

• Ian Freestone
• Andrew Gardner
• Margarita Gleba
• Kris Lockyear
• Corinna Riva
• Ellen Shlasko
• Jeremy Tanner

Degrees

• BA in Archaeology and Anthropology
• BA or BSc in Archaeology
• BA in Classical Archaeology and Classical Civilisation
• MA in Comparative Art and Archaeology
• MA in Mediterranean Archaeology
• MA in Urban Archaeology

Courses

undergraduate

• Introduction to Roman Archaeology
• Roman Coinage
• History and Archaeology of Roman Britain
  
• Roman art and architecture
• From Alexandria to Pompeii: representing humans and the world of nature in Hellenistic and Roman painting
• Iron Age Europe

graduate

• Mediterranean Dynamics
• Mediterranean Prehistory
• Rethinking 'Classical' Art: sociological and anthropological approaches

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