This article explores the implications of studying Romanization 2.0, a concept that entails putting
connectivity and human-object entanglements at the centre of new high-definition narratives. While
this perspective brings important pay-offs, de-centring Rome in historical narratives, and moving
beyond the methodological nationalism ...
This article explores the implications of studying Romanization 2.0, a concept that entails putting
connectivity and human-object entanglements at the centre of new high-definition narratives. While
this perspective brings important pay-offs, de-centring Rome in historical narratives, and moving
beyond the methodological nationalism that has often dogged studies of Roman imperialism, it also
presents archaeologists with an array of methodological challenges. How can the Big Data of multiple
localities connected by flows of objects and people be appropriately visualised and analysed? To
address this question, I present some results from a project concerning the selection of standardized
objects in funerary contexts, and their impacts on local communities in Britannia, Gallia Belgica, and
Germania Inferior, c. 100 BC – AD 100, drawing on a database of over 3000 grave assemblages.
