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Seth Bernard
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Ancient history + archaeology at @UofT. “Historical Culture of Ancient Italy” out from OUP next month! Co-director @FaleriiNovi
Feb 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 6 min read
@Nakhthor @carlosfnorena @Aug354430 @platanoclassics @AntiqueThought For history, archaeology, texts, and the past? I’ve been really smitten by Shryock and Smail’s work on “deep history” either AHR 2013 or their intro to their co-edited book. @Nakhthor @carlosfnorena @Aug354430 @platanoclassics @AntiqueThought Neither is an archaeologist per se, but the edited volume has more archeological contributions
Feb 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#OpenAccess paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science applying digital and statistical methods to analyse polygonal masonry in South Central #Italy 1/5 Dry-set masonry of "polygonal" blocks (here, Alatri in Lazio) is v. common in pre-Roman Italy and across Iron Age Mediterranean.

But perceived as irregular and hard to quantify, this technique is overlooked in current debates about societal and economic impacts of building 2/5 Image
Oct 17, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Ok, this is for @MichaelESmith. Cifani's new history of the early Roman economy is a useful repository of data. Theoretically, however, it's a bit of a mess. I was asked to write a response for a journal issue and decided to tackle the issue of underlying theory: 1/ Cifani argues that Rome was a regionally dominant and economically powerful state from a very early point, from the Final Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition--very early 2/ Image
Apr 3, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
It’s a fair q, and I hope you won’t mind me giving a longer response than probably expected:

Personally, I am defn more charitable to the idea that Rome’s 6th c defences embraced multiple plateaux than I was in 2012. However... I continue to find problematic the reconstruction of those defences along the established 4th c. BCE lines, and their use as a fixed point for wider argumentation:
Wider argumentation will establish the walls’ shape, and not vice versa.
Apr 3, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Thread on the #walls of #Rome TP Wiseman’s brand new paper on FirstView weighs in on the old debate of the age and shape of Rome’s early fortifications: cup.org/3cOTdGe It’s been almost 10 years since I weighed in on this topic, suggesting our extant evidence (lit, arch, otherwise) was insufficient to resolve this debate. I still think at least that much is true, despite some very firm claims otherwise. jstor.org/stable/41725315
May 29, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Been doing a deep dive on early Italian burial practices and wanted to collect some very sketchy + preliminary thoughts on wealth and power in period...a (long) thread on Iron Age Italian #archaeology, ending with some questions... 1/17 The Early Iron Age to Orientalizing transition (ca. 750-700 BCE) witnesses one of more radical changes in Italian material culture, up there with any in premodern period. Bc much relevant archaeology is burial, this change is visible above all in funerary landscapes
Dec 25, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Thread on why I find the whole Boris Johnson thing--what I call the "Dead Poet's Society" model of Classics--so despicable (even beyond his politics).

Some context: as I've been doing for yrs, I just finished explaining to randos at Xmas parties what "Classics" is 1/ It's tiresome, and nowadays I usually lead with Roman history and Roman archaeology. Those are things I do professionally that everyone usually gets. 2/