Open Access Journal: Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ)

[First posted in AWOL 28 December 2017, updated 27 June 2024]

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ)
ISSN: 2515-2289

The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, providing a venue for innovative and interdisciplinary research in the field of Roman Archaeology. The journal promotes the use of theoretical approaches to the Roman past and facilitates fresh interpretations of datasets, rather than solely the presentation of archaeological data. The geographical scope of the journal is the whole of the Roman world at its greatest extent, including areas beyond the frontiers where Roman influence was evident. The journal’s temporal scope is from the Bronze Age to the Late Antique period; however, the subject of most contributions will usually range from the third century BC to the fifth century AD. 

2024 • Volume 7 

Research Articles

Exotics for Entertainment: A Reconstruction of the Roman Exotic Beast Trade (First to Third Centuries AD)

Jordon Alex Houston

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

Book Reviews

Moser, Claudia. 2019. The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium: Sacrifice and the Materiality of Roman Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-108-45113-0 paperback £22.99.

Csaba Szabó

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

Gordon, Donald, Fraser Hunter and Phil Freeman (eds). 2023. Revealing Trimontium: The Correspondence of James Curle of Melrose, Excavator of Newstead Roman Fort. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-8032-7515-4 paperback £35.

Martha Stewart

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

Sebastiani, Alessandro. 2023. Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State. Ideological Placemaking, Archaeology, and Architecture, 1870–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-0093-5410-3 hardback £85.

Massimiliano Munzi

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

Zarmakoupi, Mantha. 2023. Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy. Los Angeles: Getty Publications; 978-1-60606-848-9 hardback $65.

Rachel M. Foulk

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

Mattingly, David J. 2023. Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; 978-0-47213-345-1 hardback $44.95.

Richard Hingley

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

Launaro, Alessandro and Martin Millett. 2023. Interamna Lirenas: A Roman town in Central Italy revealed. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 978-1-913344-11-5; Open Access.

Allison Smith

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

Machado, Carlos, Rowan Munnery and Rebecca J. Sweetman (eds). 2024. Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity. Abingdon: Routledge; 978-1-138-38530-6 hardback £135.

Jacopo Dolci

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

Alberti, Marta and Katie Mountain (eds). 2022. Hadrian’s Wall: Exploring Its Past to Protect Its Future. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 90. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-80327-274-0 paperback £28; 978-1-80327-275-7 eBook Open Access.

Sarah May

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

Bernard, Seth, Lisa Marie Mignone and Dan-el Padilla Peralta (eds). 2023. Making the Middle Republic. New Approaches to Rome and Italy, c. 400–200 BCE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-32798-5 hardback $130.

Gijs Willem Tol

2024-06-17 2024 • Volume 7

2023 • Volume 6 

Editor-in-Chief: Katherine A. Crawford

Guest Editors: Ozren Domiter and Antonia Kovač

Special Issue Editors: Thomas Derrick and Giacomo Savani

*Cover Image Credit: Zoran Alajberg - Peristyle in Split, Croatia.

Research Articles

Wo(man) with the Serpent Hair: An Assessment of the Validity of Globalization and Glocalization Framework in the Study of Roman Britain through Romano-British Sculpture of the Gorgon

Chelsea Peer

2023-10-27 2023 • Volume 6

Ghosts of Buildings Past: Adaptive Reuse in Ancient Rome

Penelope J E Davies

2023-11-24 2023 • Volume 6

Writing Londinium with the Five Senses

Caroline Day Lawrence

2023-12-05 2023 • Volume 6

Also a part of:

Collection: Sensory Experiences in the Roman North

Sensory Explorations of Roman Material Culture: a Disability Perspective

Stephanie Susanne Evelyn-Wright

2023-12-29 2023 • Volume 6

Also a part of:

Collection: Sensory Experiences in the Roman North

Experimental and Experiential approaches to the past – Reconstructing and understanding Roman domesticity through recreated places

Nicky Garland

2023-12-29 2023 • Volume 6

Also a part of:

Collection: Sensory Experiences in the Roman North

In the Footsteps of Aeneas: Movement and Narrative in Fourth Century Romano-British Mosaics

Nicole Berlin

2023-12-29 2023 • Volume 6

Also a part of:

Collection: Sensory Experiences in the Roman North

Book Reviews

Frida Pellegrino. 2020. The Urbanisation of the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire: A Juridical and Functional Approach to Town Life in Roman Gaul, Germania Inferior and Britain (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 72). Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-7896-9774-2 paperback £48.

Oliva Rodríguez-Gutiérrez

2023-12-08 2023 • Volume 6

Andrew Wilson, Nick Ray, and Angela Trentacoste (eds). 2023. The Economy of Roman Religion (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy). Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-1928-8353-7 hardback £83.

Stuart McKie

2023-12-11 2023 • Volume 6

Nigel Mills (ed.). 2021. Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers: Developing Good Practice in Presenting World Heritage (BAR International Series 3066). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports; 978-1-4073-5900-7 paperback £50.

Antony Lee

2023-12-13 2023 • Volume 6

 

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