A Social Archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Egypt - Swift, Ellen (Professor of Roman Archaeology, Professor of Roman Arc; Stoner, Jo (Honorary Research Fellow, Honorary Research Fellow, Univ; Pudsey, April (Senior Lecturer in Roman History, Senior Lecturer in
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Artefact evidence has the unique power to illuminate many aspects of life that are rarely explored in written sources. This book presents the first in-depth study that uses everyday artefacts as its principal source of evidence to transform our understanding of the society and culture of Roman and Late Antique Egypt.

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Artefact evidence has the unique power to illuminate many aspects of life that are rarely explored in written sources. This book presents the first in-depth study that uses everyday artefacts as its principal source of evidence to transform our understanding of the society and culture of Roman and Late Antique Egypt.
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Ellen Swift is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Kent. She studied at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London for her BA, MA, and PhD. Grant-funded research undertaken by Ellen as Principal Investigator includes a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2013 and AHRC project 'Roman and Late Antique Artefacts from Egypt' in 2017-19. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She has wide research interests in artefact studies, the late to post-Roman transition in the West, and Roman and late antique art, and has worked on artefacts from both the north-western provinces of the Roman empire and from Roman and late antique Egypt. Jo Stoner is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent. She studied Art History at undergraduate and Masters level at the University of Sussex, before completing a PhD in Classics and Archaeology at the University of Kent. She published her doctoral research on the lives of personal possessions in Late Antiquity as a monograph in 2019 and she recently completed a post-doc on the AHRC-funded 'Roman and Late Antique Artefacts from Egypt' project. Jo's research interests include the values of Roman and late antique artefacts, organic artefacts, personal meaning, and craft processes. April Pudsey is Head of History and Archaeology of Childhood at the interdisciplinary Manchester Centre for Youth Studies. She studied at the University of Manchester for her BA, MA and PhD, and has held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, in addition to a number of research and teaching posts since 2007. She works closely with documentary papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, and has published around ancient demography, children, and family in the Roman world.