Foreigners and locals in Roman Britain: painting a more complex picture for school children

罗马时期不列颠的外国人和当地人：为学童描绘更复杂的图景

• 批准号: AH/J005436/1
• 负责人: Hella Eckardt
• 金额: $ 7.89万
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ005436%2F1
• 关键词: Foreigners; locals; Roman; Britain; painting

"A long way from home - diaspora communities in Roman Britain" (2007-2009: AH/E508758/1) was part of the AHRC programme on "Diasporas, migration and Identities" and explored the cultural and biological experience of immigrant communities in Roman Britain through an innovative combination of scientific archaeological techniques. The project revealed the considerable diversity of people living in Romano-British towns and resulted in national news coverage as well as a pioneering outreach project at the Yorkshire Museum. This follow-on project will enhance the value and impact of this research, and make these scientific findings available to a nationwide (and potentially international) audience of Key Stage 2/3 learners and teachers. This public engagement will be achieved through the creation of an interactive website and a teaching resource pact, in collaboration with the Runnymede Trust. Using a range of scientific techniques, the AHRC-funded research project identified significant numbers of migrants in the burial record of Roman Britain, in particular at the important late Roman towns of York and Winchester. Osteological and forensic ancestry assessment was combined with oxygen & strontium isotope analysis to assess geographic origins. Our results show that a significant number of individuals sampled (up to 33%) can be classed as non-local, with a smaller proportion coming from outside the UK. Contrary to popular perceptions, there are women and children amongst these migrants. Results were published in seven peer-reviewed journal papers and an edited volume. Our work was featured on the BBC 'The One Show' (3rd Nov 2009) and in The Times (26 February 2010) and we trialled outreach activities at the Yorkshire Museum (www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk). Having completed both the academic research and the initial outreach project, it has become apparent that the results of this work are of enormous significance to the way in which the Roman period is taught in British Schools. 'The Romans' are a central part of the primary school history curriculum in Key Stage 2 (ages 7 -11). Currently, the available teaching materials portray Roman Britain as homogenous, and any immigrants essentially as Italian, white and 'like us'. This kind of approach is exemplified by websites such as http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/ and children's books such as the 'Usborne Time Traveller: Rome and the Romans' (see visual evidence attached). Such depictions fail to take into account both the epigraphic evidence (inscriptions mentioning foreigners) which in many cases has been known for two hundred years and more recent scientific findings. Previous work by the Runnymede Trust strongly suggests that there is a strong demand for innovative educational materials about cultural diversity in the UK.This project will address the gap between academic perceptions of mobility and migration in the Roman world and current primary (and secondary) school teaching by creating a website for children aged 7-14 and a teaching resource pack for teachers and community workers. To achieve this we will work with the Runnymede Trust, the UK's leading independent race equality think tank (http://www.runnymedetrust.org/), which has extensive previous experience of designing and promoting educational websites. This project will be of relevance to all primary schools in Britain as it will enable teachers, especially those working with children from diverse backgrounds, to portray images of the Roman world that are not only more relevant but reflect new academic research on the topic.

“远离家乡--罗马不列颠罗马移民社区”(2007-2009年：AH/E508758/1)是AHRC关于“移民、移民和特性”方案的一部分，通过科学考古技术的创新组合探索了罗马不列颠罗马移民社区的文化和生物经验。该项目揭示了居住在罗马-不列颠城镇的人们的相当大的多样性，并导致全国新闻报道以及约克郡博物馆的一个开创性外联项目。这个后续项目将加强这项研究的价值和影响，并将这些科学发现提供给全国(以及潜在的国际)关键阶段2/3学习者和教师的受众。这一公众参与将通过与Runnymede信托基金合作创建一个互动网站和一项教学资源协定来实现。利用一系列科学技术，AHRC资助的研究项目在罗马不列颠的埋葬记录中发现了大量移民，特别是在罗马晚期的重要城镇约克和温彻斯特。骨学和法医血统评估与氧和锶同位素分析相结合来评估地理来源。我们的结果显示，相当多的被抽样者(高达33%)可以归类为非本地人，来自英国以外的比例较小。与普遍看法相反，这些移民中有妇女和儿童。结果发表在七篇同行评议的期刊论文和一本编辑过的卷上。我们的工作登上了BBC的《独秀》(The One Show)(2009年11月3日)和《泰晤士报》(2010年2月26日)，我们还在约克郡博物馆(www.yorkshireuseum.org.uk)试用了外展活动。在完成了学术研究和最初的推广项目后，很明显，这项工作的结果对英国学校教授罗马时期的方式具有巨大的意义。《罗马人》是小学第二阶段(7-11岁)小学历史课程的核心部分。目前，可用的教材将罗马英国描绘成同质的，任何移民本质上都是意大利人、白人和“像我们一样”。Http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/等网站和《乌斯伯恩时间旅行者：罗马人与罗马人》(见所附视觉证据)等儿童书籍就是这种方法的例证。这样的描述没有考虑到墓志铭证据(提到外国人的碑文)，在许多情况下，200年前就已经知道了，也没有考虑到最近的科学发现。Runnymede Trust之前的工作强烈表明，英国对关于文化多样性的创新教育材料有着强烈的需求。该项目将通过为7-14岁的儿童创建一个网站和为教师和社区工作者创建一个教学资源包，来解决罗马世界对流动性和移民的学术看法与当前小学(和中学)教学之间的差距。为了实现这一目标，我们将与Runnymede Trust合作，Runnymede Trust是英国领先的独立种族平等智库(http://www.runnymedetrust.org/)，)，它在设计和推广教育网站方面拥有丰富的经验。该项目将与英国所有小学相关，因为它将使教师，特别是那些与来自不同背景的儿童一起工作的教师能够描绘罗马世界的图像，这些图像不仅更相关，而且反映了关于这一主题的新的学术研究。