All Outputs (70)

One City, Two Tibers? Reintegrating the Supply Networks of Imperial Rome (2023)
Book Chapter
Moreno Escobar, M., & Witcher, R. (2023). One City, Two Tibers? Reintegrating the Supply Networks of Imperial Rome. In P. Campbell, & A. Tibbs (Eds.), Rivers and Waterways in the Roman World: Empire of Water (53-68). (1). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003277613-6

The Tiber constituted a fundamental axis of transport and trade to Rome that made possible its subsistence and development in antiquity. However, different trajectories of research in the upper/middle and lower Tiber valley have led to an apparent pe... Read More about One City, Two Tibers? Reintegrating the Supply Networks of Imperial Rome.

Post-fire Recruitment Failure as a Driver of Forest to Non-forest Ecosystem Shifts in Boreal Regions (2021)
Book Chapter
Burrell, A., Kukavskaya, E., Baxter, R., Sun, Q., & Barrett, K. (2021). Post-fire Recruitment Failure as a Driver of Forest to Non-forest Ecosystem Shifts in Boreal Regions. In J. Canadell, & R. Jackson (Eds.), Ecosystem Collapse and Climate Change (69-100). (1). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71330-0_4

Climate change and land-use are driving large changes in forest ecosystems around the globe. In the boreal biome it is likely that increases in temperature and the associated lengthening of the growing season will cause the forest to expand into the... Read More about Post-fire Recruitment Failure as a Driver of Forest to Non-forest Ecosystem Shifts in Boreal Regions.

Something more than imagination: archaeology and fiction (2021)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R., & van Helden, D. (2021). Something more than imagination: archaeology and fiction. In J. Gill, E. Lightfoot, & C. McKenzie (Eds.), Writing remains: new intersections of archaeology, literature and science (177-201). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350109490.ch-007

Desiring machines: The sexbot paradox (2020)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2020). Desiring machines: The sexbot paradox. In S. A. Midson (Ed.), Love, Technology and Theology (77-92). T&T Clark. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567689979.ch-005

Walking in someone else’s shoes: archaeology, empathy and fiction (2019)
Book Chapter
Van Helden, D., & Witcher, R. (2020). Walking in someone else’s shoes: archaeology, empathy and fiction. In D. Van Helden, & R. Witcher (Eds.), Researching the archaeological past through imagined narratives: a necessary fiction. Routledge

Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation: introduction (2019)
Book Chapter
Van Helden, D., & Witcher, R. (2020). Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation: introduction. In D. Van Helden, & R. Witcher (Eds.), Researching the archaeological past through imagined narratives: a necessary fiction. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203730904-1

The transformation of the material traces of the past into archaeological narrative is a fundamentally creative act. But what happens when archaeologists engage with the work and methods of historical novelists and filmmakers? Do they risk transgress... Read More about Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation: introduction.

The global Roman countryside: connectivity and community (2017)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R. (2017). The global Roman countryside: connectivity and community. In T. de Haas, & G. Tol (Eds.), The economic integration of Roman Italy : rural communities in a globalising world (28-50). Brill Academic Publishers

The globalized Roman world (2016)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R. (2016). The globalized Roman world. In T. Hodos (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of globalization and archaeology (634-651). Routledge

‘Technological Immortalization and Original Mortality: Karl Barth on the Celebration of Finitude’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2016). ‘Technological Immortalization and Original Mortality: Karl Barth on the Celebration of Finitude’. In P. Ziegler (Ed.), Eternal God, Eternal Life: Theological Investigations into the Concept of Immortality (187-209). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567666864.ch-010

Agricultural production in Roman Italy (2016)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R. (2016). Agricultural production in Roman Italy. In A. Cooley (Ed.), A companion to Roman Italy (459-482). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118993125.ch23

This chapter considers the practice and organization of agricultural production in Roman Italy drawing on textual, archaeological, and ethnoarchaeological evidence. As well as reviewing the types of crops cultivated and animals husbanded, it consider... Read More about Agricultural production in Roman Italy.

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Song, R., & Waters, B. (2015). Introduction. In R. Song, & B. Waters (Eds.), The Authority of the Gospel: Essays in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan (xi-xxi). Grand Rapids, Mi.: Eerdmans

Globalisation and Roman Cultural Heritage (2014)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R. (2014). Globalisation and Roman Cultural Heritage. In M. Pitts, & M. Versluys (Eds.), Globalisation and the Roman world : world history, connectivity and material culture (198-222). Cambridge University Press

Plant acclimation and adaptation to cold environments (2014)
Book Chapter
Baxter, R. (2014). Plant acclimation and adaptation to cold environments. In K. Franklin, & P. Wigge (Eds.), Temperature and plant development (19-42). Wiley

Insediamento e società in Etruria nella prima età imperiale: ulteriore considerazioni. (2013)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R. (2013). Insediamento e società in Etruria nella prima età imperiale: ulteriore considerazioni. In G. Schörner (Ed.), Leben auf dem Lande: ‘Il Monte’ bei San Gimignano: ein römischer Fundplatz und sein Kontext (233-247). Phoibos Verlag

(Sub)urban Surroundings (2013)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R. (2013). (Sub)urban Surroundings. In P. Erdkamp (Ed.), The Cambridge companion to Ancient Rome (205-225). Cambridge University Press

Ancient Roman writers such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus (4.13.4-5) observed the impossibility of locating the point at which Rome ceased and the countryside began. In contrast, modern guidebooks to the remains of the ancient city have less trouble,... Read More about (Sub)urban Surroundings.

Transgenic Animals and Ethics: Recognizing an Appropriate Dignity (2013)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2013). Transgenic Animals and Ethics: Recognizing an Appropriate Dignity. In C. Deane-Drummond, D. Clough, & R. Artinian-Kaiser (Eds.), Animals as religious subjects : transdisciplinary perspectives (243-258). T & T Clark

‘Much That Has Long Been Hidden’: Reconstructing the Survey Methodology (2012)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R., & Craven, M. (2013). ‘Much That Has Long Been Hidden’: Reconstructing the Survey Methodology. In R. Cascino, H. Di Giuseppe, & H. Patterson (Eds.), Veii. The historical topography of the ancient city. A restudy of John Ward-Perkins’s survey (9-24). British School at Rome

Vegetation ecology and global change. (2012)
Book Chapter
Huntley, B., & Baxter, R. (2012). Vegetation ecology and global change. In E. van der Maarel, & J. Franklin (Eds.), Vegetation Ecology (509-525). (2nd Edition). Wiley

'That From A Long Way Off Look Like Farms': The Classification of Roman Rural Sites. (2012)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R. (2012). 'That From A Long Way Off Look Like Farms': The Classification of Roman Rural Sites. In P. Attema, & G. Schörner (Eds.), Comparative Issues in the Archaeology of the Roman Rural Landscape. Site Classification Between Survey, Excavation and Historical Categories (11-30). Journal of Roman Archaeology

Missing persons? Models of Mediterranean Regional Survey and Ancient Populations (2011)
Book Chapter
Witcher, R. (2011). Missing persons? Models of Mediterranean Regional Survey and Ancient Populations. In A. Bowman, & A. Wilson (Eds.), Settlement, urbanization and population (36-75). Oxford University Press