This dissertation centers around questions related to multiple forms and manifestations of cultural contact along provincial borderlands and frontier regions. I explore these themes within the context of the Roman Empire, and focus on how interactions both crafted and were reflected in local reactions to imperialism. My dissertation contributes to the discussion of cultural interaction at the edges of the Roman Empire through a careful archaeological examination of the role coinage played within societies that were physically located on the edges of the empire. Using a comparative analysis of three case studies (Scotland, Scandinavia, and South Arabia), I explore how the selective consumption or transformation of coins expressed the ways indigenous populations in these three different regions viewed their relationship with the expanding Roman state. My project explores Roman and local connections and unravels the varied ways coins have been entangled within a discourse of imperial contact and local response.
McBride, Kathryn,
"The Social Life of Coins: Local Reactions to Roman Imperialism Beyond the Frontier"
(2017).
Graduate Research Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.7301/Z00G3HM9
