Our project to explore the Roman town of Binchester – Vinovium – reached the news at Stanford today – [Link] The report took an appropriately student-centered focus. And we certainly had a wonderful team last year. Project site – VINOVIVM.ORG
Our excavations of Binchester Roman town are underway. VINOVIVM.ORG A key question for me – just what was the character of military occupation? The day-to-day experience, the ambience. Milecastle, Hadrian’s Wall We are too used to modern colonialism to appreciate the differences of ancient “military” experience, when so embedded in institutions of property, land, citizenship.
Concept – [Link] “At the scene of crime anything might be relevant” – the classic archaeological question of a place or site is what to focus upon – what should be studied, listed, recorded, preserved? And what, in contrast, is irrelevant, to be discarded and forgotten? Excavations at Binchester UK (Vinovium) What is significant? What…
Archaeologist at Stanford University Home page at Stanford – [Link]Studio Michael Shanks – lab at Stanford – [Link]Projects – [Link] exploring the archaeological imagination My special interest in ancient Greece and Rome is the basis for my fascination with all manner of archaeological themes – the history of art and design experience and the shape…
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