archaeology-w-agencements

'Archaeology with agencemenets' is a repository for data, scripts, and outputs related to data collection, cleaning, and analysis for the 2021-2025 PhD project 'Roman archaeology with agencements: Assemblage thinking and the ‘military community’ in Dalmatia and beyond.'

Project description

Contemporary engagements with Roman army communities are effective for their bottom-up and processual conceptualisations of community and communal participation. However, they are anthropocentric, inward-looking, and struggle with multiscalarity. Drawing upon new materialism, particularly assemblage thinking derived from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, I conceptualise Roman military communities as more-than-human, open, and multiscalar arrangements of people, monuments, objects, signs, and more, in states of ‘becoming-with’. This framework is used to explore the emergence of military communities in first–second century CE Roman Dalmatia, using case studies of inscribed funerary monuments to illuminatie the more-than-human and multiplicious nature of this emergence.

Overview

Example outputs:

Bubble map of Latin inscriptions in Dalmatia. CC BY-SA 4.0

Bubble map of Latin military inscriptions in Dalmatia. CC BY-SA 4.0

Scaled density graph of Latin military funerary and sacral inscriptions in Dalmatia, following Steinmann & Weissova 2021. CC BY-SA 4.0

Scaled _relative_ density graph of votive and epitaphis inscriptions in Dalmatia, following Steinmann & Weissova 2021. CC BY-SA 4.0

Thesis

• Coopey, E S. forthcoming. '"Military-becoming" in Dalmatia and beyond: An assemblage thinking framework for Roman Archaeology.' PhD thesis. Macquarie University.

Data Sources

• LIRE
• EDH
• EDCS
• DARMC
• Pleiades

Readings on methodology

• Heřmánková, P, V Kaše, and A Sobotkova. 2021. 'Inscriptions as Data: Digital Epigraphy in Macro-Historical Perspective.' Journal of Digital History 1(1): 99. DOI:10.1515/jdh-2021-1004.
• Steinmann, L, and B Weissova. 2021. ‘Datplot: A New R Package for the Visualization of Date Ranges in Archaeology’. Advances in Archaeological Practice 9(4). DOI:10.1017/aap.2021.8.