Forts, fields and towns : communities in northwest Transylvania from the first century BC to the fifth century AD
This thesis examines the social landscape of Northwest Transylvania in the Late Iron Age, Roman and post-Roman periods. This region consists of the modern Romanian counties of Cluj and SÄlaj and roughly encompasses the Roman province of Dacia Porolissensis and part of Free Dacia. Roman Dacia represents an extraordinary case of Roman imperial occupation: it was one of the last major territories to be conquered and one of the first to be released. Special emphasis is placed on how Roman occupation as a phenomenon transformed the landscape; but unlike previous research the military is neither the primary focus of analysis nor the only agent of change. In the years after the Trajanic conquest of Dacia in AD 106, immigrants swarmed into the new province from all over the Empire to colonise the land which written sources indicate was severely depopulated. It was this migration as a whole that led to the destabilisation of existing Iron Age territorial units and radical transformations of settlement patterns, burial, ritual and land-use. To analyse these issues, archaeological sites and find spots of material dating to between the first century BC and the fifth century AD within the study area were entered into
Wanner, Robert
Dacia Roman Landscape Transylvania
Forts, fields and towns : communities in northwest Transylvania from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. This thesis examines the social landscape of Northwest Transylvania in the Late Iron Age, Roman and post-Roman periods. This region consists of the modern Romanian counties of Cluj and SÄlaj and roughly encompasses the Roman province of Dacia Porolissensis and part of Free Dacia. Roman Dacia represents an extraordinary case of Roman imperial occupation: it was one of the last major territories to be conquered and one of the first to be released. Special emphasis is placed on how Roman occupation as a phenomenon transformed the landscape; but unlike previous research the military is neither the primary focus of analysis nor the only agent of change. In the years after the Trajanic conquest of Dacia in AD 106, immigrants swarmed into the new province from all over the Empire to colonise the land which written sources indicate was severely depopulated. It was this migration as a whole that led to the destabilisation of existing Iron Age territorial units and radical transformations of settlement patterns, burial, ritual and land-use. To analyse these issues, archaeological sites and find spots of material dating to between the first century BC and the fifth century AD within the study area were entered into
field town community northwest transylvania examine social landscape northwest transylvania late_iron_age roman post_roman period region consist modern romanian county roughly encompass roman_province dacia part free dacia roman dacia represent extraordinary case roman_imperial occupation last major territory conquer first release special_emphasis place roman_occupation phenomenon transform landscape unlike_previous military neither primary_focus analysis agent change year conquest dacia immigrant new province empire colonise land write_source indicate severely migration whole lead exist iron_age territorial unit radical transformation_settlement pattern burial ritual land_use analyse issue archaeological_site spot material dating within study_area enter