Practices of Power and Domination in the Roman West and Beyond

One of the more directly exercised aspects of Roman imperialism was the reorganisation and redistribution of lands and territories of the conquered societies.
Thanks to new excavations, open-access monographies/journals, online databases and cartographic resources, the underlying archaeological data which makes up said territories (both pre- and post-conquest) is becoming increasingly accessible, thus opening the door for comparative analyses.
In this lunchtime talk I will outline a cross-regional, diachronic project focussing on the practices of Roman imperialism in the archaeological landscape on one hand but also to what extent pre-Roman structures may have influenced provincial settlement patterns on the other.
Moreover, I will discuss the possibilities and limitations of such data-driven supra-regional analyses and finally I will briefly explain the context of my stay here in Amsterdam and how it fits in with my (planned) career trajectory.