Ray Laurence is Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent, UK. He has published extensively on the Roman Empire, with titles that include: The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change (1999), Roman Pompeii: Space and Society (2007), and The City in the Roman West c. 250 BC - c. AD 250 (2011).

• 1. Questions of Evidence  2. Dialogues of Academic Difference – the Present Past of Roman Studies  3. From Topography to Archaeology: Revealing the Roman Forum  4. From the City to the Country: Archaeological Excavation and Field Survey  5. From Italy to the Provinces: Imperialism and Cultural Change  6. The Archaeologists’ Roman Towns  7. Military and Civilian – Re-interpretting the Roman Fort at Vindolanda  8. Peopling the Roman Past – do the dead tell tales?  9. Plants, Animals, and Diet  10. Looking in the Museums – discovering artefacts  11. End Piece – A Post-Archaeology Age

"An energetic engagement with an unusually wide range of topics, drawing upon timely and relevant scholarship... [Laurence] has shown that Roman historians cannot afford to ignore Roman archaeology" - S.E. Craver, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ray Laurence is Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent, UK. He has published extensively on the Roman Empire, with titles that include: The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change (1999), Roman Pompeii: Space and Society (2007), and The City in the Roman West c. 250 BC - c. AD 250 (2011).

• 1. Questions of Evidence  2. Dialogues of Academic Difference – the Present Past of Roman Studies  3. From Topography to Archaeology: Revealing the Roman Forum  4. From the City to the Country: Archaeological Excavation and Field Survey  5. From Italy to the Provinces: Imperialism and Cultural Change  6. The Archaeologists’ Roman Towns  7. Military and Civilian – Re-interpretting the Roman Fort at Vindolanda  8. Peopling the Roman Past – do the dead tell tales?  9. Plants, Animals, and Diet  10. Looking in the Museums – discovering artefacts  11. End Piece – A Post-Archaeology Age

"An energetic engagement with an unusually wide range of topics, drawing upon timely and relevant scholarship... [Laurence] has shown that Roman historians cannot afford to ignore Roman archaeology" - S.E. Craver, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ray Laurence is Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Kent, UK. He has published extensively on the Roman Empire, with titles that include: The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change (1999), Roman Pompeii: Space and Society (2007), and The City in the Roman West c. 250 BC - c. AD 250 (2011).

• 1. Questions of Evidence  2. Dialogues of Academic Difference – the Present Past of Roman Studies  3. From Topography to Archaeology: Revealing the Roman Forum  4. From the City to the Country: Archaeological Excavation and Field Survey  5. From Italy to the Provinces: Imperialism and Cultural Change  6. The Archaeologists’ Roman Towns  7. Military and Civilian – Re-interpretting the Roman Fort at Vindolanda  8. Peopling the Roman Past – do the dead tell tales?  9. Plants, Animals, and Diet  10. Looking in the Museums – discovering artefacts  11. End Piece – A Post-Archaeology Age

"An energetic engagement with an unusually wide range of topics, drawing upon timely and relevant scholarship... [Laurence] has shown that Roman historians cannot afford to ignore Roman archaeology" - S.E. Craver, Bryn Mawr Classical Review