Dacia: Landscape, Colonization And Romanization (monographs In Classical Studies)

Dacia Dacia examines the way the Roman conquest and organisation of the central core of the province of Dacia impacted on the native settlement pattern and society. It analyses Roman-native interaction from a landscape perspective focusing on the core territory of both Iron Age and Roman Dacia. This includes the royal Dacian heartland (the Orastie Mountains) and its surrounding lowlands, which later belonged to the hinterlands of Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa and Apulum, the two most important Roman towns in the province of Dacia. Oltean considers the nature and distribution of settlements of various types and functions in the pre-Roman and Roman periods, the human impact on the local landscape and the changes which occurred as a result of Roman occupation. The study also provides a methodological framework for further analysis of the landscape and of the evolution of the settlement pattern, which can be extended throughout the province of Dacia and into neighbouring areas. The result is a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement patterns and the impact of Roman colonisation. Dacia offers fresh insight into the province of Dacia and the nature of Romanisation and Roman-native interaction. Ioana A. Oltean is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Dacia Landscape, colonisation and romanisation Ioana A. Oltean First published 2007 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2007 Ioana A. Oltean All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data ISBN 0-203-94583-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0–415–41252–8 (hbk) ISBN10: 0–203–94583–2 (ebk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–41252–0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978–0–203–94583–4 (ebk) Contents List of figures Acknowledgements vi xi 1 Introduction 1 2 The Dacian heartland 26 3 The historical setting 41 4 Settlement and society in the late pre-Roman Iron Age 60 5 The Roman social landscape 119 6 The romanisation of the landscape 207 Bibliography Index 228 240 Figures1 1.1 Map of Dacia and neighbouring provinces. 1.2 Low-