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Abstract: Changes in settlement location, style and density have long been
seen as hallmarks of the Roman conquest of the Gaul. The relocation and abandonment of
native settlements is often understood as voluntary, and resulting from a desire to engage
economically and politically with Rome. Land appropriated by Rome during the conquest is
thought to have been disbursed to citizens of Rome's ... read morenew colonies in Gaul. What the impact
of land distribution might have been on patterns of native settlement remains unknown. This
paper examines micro-regional patterns of settlement abandonment and continuity in northern
Gallia Narbonensis in the 1st century BCE and early 1st century CE in what is today the
French département of the Drôme. Significant differences are observed in the rates of
abandonment and long-term continuity. Settlements in centuriated regions appear more than
seven times more likely to be abandoned or relocated than those on uncenturiated land, and
this difference is analyzed as a function of exploitative colonial and imperial
administration.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2012.
Submitted to the Dept. of Classics.
Advisor: R. Bruce Hitchner.
Committee: J. Matthew Harrington, and Lauren Sullivan.
Keywords: Archaeology, and Classical studies.read less
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