Title
Communal Eating and Drinking in Early Roman Mediterranean France: A Possible Tavern at Lattara, c. 125–75 BC
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2016
Department 1
Anthropology
Department 2
Classics
Abstract
Despite being institutions of major social importance throughout the Roman world, taverns remain poorly understood archaeologically. The identification of one such possible tavern at the Iron Age and Roman site of Lattara in Mediterranean France is hence a discovery of special significance. Not only is the tavern the earliest of its kind in the region, it also serves as an invaluable indicator of the changing social and economic infrastructure of the settlement and its inhabitants following the Roman conquest of Mediterranean Gaul in the late second century BC.
DOI
10.15184/aqy.2015.184
Recommended Citation
Luley, Benjamin P., and Gaël Piquès. "Communal Eating and Drinking in Early Roman Mediterranean France: A Possible Tavern at Lattara, c. 125–75 BC." Antiquities 90, 349 (February 2016). pp. 126-142.
Comments
Original version available from the publisher, Cambridge University Press.