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Story-telling in Roman archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

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It is a rare opportunity to be invited to comment upon two papers at the same time: the temptation is then to either search for common threads, or to directly compare them. Individually, both Slofstra and Woolf offer an interesting perspective on the process of Romanisation in Gaul and the Rhine delta, but taken together, they become a dialogue on how we tell the story of Romanisation: the problems and conventions inherent within it. Both Slofstra and Woolf are telling the story of cultural change. Although they take opposing stands on whether to call this Romanisation or not, essentially it is the same story, and it requires the same techniques for telling it. As change, it can be viewed as a process taking place over time, and which therefore requires a temporal framework, and (like all good stories) a beginning, a middle and an end. These are not unproblematic, and the choices made (or in some cases enforced) are not without consequence.

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