The Roman Object Revolution

1. The application of innovative theoretical and methodological perspectives relating to globalisation and materiality 2. Rigorous analysis of a large, multi-region database from the northwest Roman empire 3. The unveiling of major new historically-significant patterns and phenomena for the regions in question

Martin Pitts is Associate Professor in Roman Archaeology at the University of Exeter. His research deals with late Iron Age and early Roman northwest Europe, with emphasis on the consumption and circulation of objects (especially pottery), and how these can inform understandings of historical globalising processes. He is co-author of several books and articles, including Alien Cities: Consumption and the origins of urbanism in Roman Britain (with Dominic Perring, 2013), Globalisation and the Roman World (with Miguel John Versluys, 2015), and Materialising Roman Histories (with Astrid Van Oyen, 2017).

1. Standardised objects as historical agents, 2. The roles of objects in Later Iron Age societies, 3. The object revolution in the Roman West, 4. Objectscapes, cityscapes and colonial encounters, 5. Local elites, imperial culture and provincial objectscapes, 6. Historical change and the Roman inter-artefactual domain