Table of Contents

Simon James & Stefan Krmnicek: Introduction
Part I: Prelude, Conquest, and Provincialisation
1. Occupation and Consolidation
1: Susanne Sievers: The Lands of Germania in the Later Pre-Roman Iron Age
2: Reinhard Wolters: Emergence of the Provinces
2. Creating a Provincial Landscape
3: Klaus Kortüm: Archaeology of Germania Superior: Urban Settlements
4: Norbert Hanel: Archaeology of Germania Inferior: Urbanization
5: Thomas Maurer: Roman Rural Landscape Occupation in Present-Day Germany: An Overview
Part II: Core Provinces at the Edge of Empire
3. Wars and Frontiers
6: Günther Moosbauer: Roman Battlefields in Germany: Kalkriese and Harzhorn
7: Martin Kemkes: The Limes
4. An Integrated Economy
8: Susanne Biegert and Markus Helfert: Roman Pottery Research in Germany
9: David Wigg-Wolf: Coinage and Money in the Roman Rhineland
5. Constituting Provincial Identity
10: Constanze Höpken: Religion, Cult, and Burial Customs in the German Provinces
11: Krešimir Matijević: Writing and Literacy/Illiteracy
12: Alexandra W. Busch and Henner von Hesberg: Provincial Art
Part III: The Transformation of Power
6. Crisis of the Third Century
13: Marcus Reuter: 'Vi barbarorum absumptam': A Military History of Roman Germany during the Third Century AD
14: Michaela Konrad: Crisis Research in a Civil Context
7. Germani and Rome
15: Claus von Carnap-Bornheim: The Germani and the German Provinces of Rome
16: Michael Meyer: Roman Cultural Influence in Western Germania Magna
17: Claudia Theune: Transformations in the Roman West: The Case of the Alamanni
8. After Rome
18: Hubert Fehr: The Transformation into the Early Middle Ages
19: Alexander Heising: Reception and History of Research in the Roman Provinces of Germany
Part IV: External Perspectives and Final Thoughts
9. The Foreign Commentaries
20: Nico Roymans: The Archaeology of Roman Germany, A Dutch Perspective
21: Michel Reddé: Roman Germania? What Germania?
22: Ian Haynes: Germanies, Britains, and the Roman World
23: Philip Kiernan: Roman Germany and Provincial Archaeology, The North American Perspective
10. Final Word
24: Thomas Fischer: Concluding Remarks on the Handbook of the Archaeology of Roman Germany

About the Author

Simon James is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. After a decade at the British Museum as an archaeological illustrator and then as an educator, he returned to the University sector via a Leverhulme Fellowship at Durham. He joined the University of Leicester in January 2000, becoming professor in 2012. His research mainly relates to ancient conflict, especially in the Roman world and contemporary societies in Europe and the Middle East.
Stefan Krmnicek is Junior Professor of Ancient Numismatics at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen. His research interests cover a wide range of topics, including coin iconography, economic and social history, and archaeometry, with current research focuses on the study of money and coinage at the interface between archaeology, Roman and Iron Age numismatics, anthropology, and sociology.

Reviews

...this excellent book fills a long-underserved need for up-to-date information on, and interpretation of, the Romans' activities in ancient Germany. Regardless of language, it is a valuable contribution to the subject.
*Lindsay Powell, Ancient Warfare*

A new Oxford Handbook to the Archaeology of Roman Germany looks set to become the go-to resource for those researching, teaching, and studying the provinces of the Roman North...
*Michael Squire, Greece & Rome*

a highly informative invitation to all classical archaeologists to explore recent analyses of the rich archaeological datasets available for the Roman Empire's German provinces ... this volume is an invaluable primer and call to action for all Roman archaeologists who want to engage with current, mostly German-language research on the Roman German provinces, Upper German-Raetian limes, and Germania Magna/Barbaricum.
*Matthew Schueller, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*