‘Villas as a Key to Social Structure’? Some Comments on Recent Approaches to the Romano–British Villa and Some Suggestions Towards and Alternative
The paper makes a critical examination of one of the more influential pieces of ‘social archaeology’ to have come out of Romano-British studies - J. T. Smith’s ‘Villas as a key to social structure ’. Smith’s suggestions that many villas were occupied by ‘extended families’ is found wanting under a m...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
1993-04-01
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| Series: | Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal |
| Online Access: | https://traj.openlibhums.org/articles/10 |