The Edges of the Roman World

The Edges of the Roman World

Edited by

Marko A. Jankovi5, Vladimir D. Mihajlovi5

and Staa Babi5

The Edges of the Roman World,

Edited by Marko A. Jankovi5, Vladimir D. Mihajlovi5 and Staa Babi5
This book first published 2014
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Table of contents
List of illustrations
List of tables

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ix

Foreword: Edges of the Roman world, imperialism and identities

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Introduction
Tkejctf"Jkping{

Roman-barbarian interactions and the creation of Dutch national

identity: The many faces of myth
Ugtikq"Iqp| ng|"U pejg|"
5
The Peoples protests: Accounts of resistance from Cassius Dio to
Bashir-Al-Assad
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19
The Hellenization process and the Balkan Iron Age archaeology
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Violent ethnicities: Gladiatorial spectacles and display of power

Octmq"C0"Lcpmqxk5"

48

Religion and identity in the Roman Empire: Strategies of civic

consolidation in the 2nd century AD
Tqe q"Iqtfknnq"Jgtx u"
61
Knowing your neighbour: Considering some social implications of
layouts of Roman military bases
Cppc"J0"Ycncu"
72
Xkpwo"xktgu: Trier Black-Slipped wares and constructive drinking in
Roman Britain
Ujcwp"Cpvjqp{"Owff"
86
Kpfkecvkpi" dqtfgtu" qt" fgpkpi" urjgtg" qh" kpwgpegA" Vjg" Ectvjcikpkcp"
position in the westerm Mediterranean in light of its treaties with Rome
Cpft|gl"Fwf|kMumk"
105
Headhunting on the Roman frontier: (Dis)respect, mockery, magic and
the head of Augustus from Meroe
Wtq"Ocvk5"
117
The Empire of friends and the house of the father: Celtic and Canaanite
elite under Imperial rule
Cctqp"Ktxkp"
135

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Dgkpi"Tqocp"cpf"Itggm<"Nqecn"tgurqpug"vq"vjg"kpwgpeg"htqo"Tqog"kp"
northern Asia Minor
Lgurgt"Ocldqo"Ocfugp"
145
On the rtghgevwtc"qtcg"octkvkocg on the western coast of the Black Sea
Nkikc"Twuew"
159
Gpgo{"cv"vjg"icvguA"Kpvgtcevkqpu"dgvyggp"Fcekcpu"cpf"Tqocpu"kp"vjg"
1st century AD
Octkcpc"Gitk"
172
Objects in action: Towards the anthropology of exchange of Roman
bronze vessels in the middle Danube region
Xncfkokt"F0"Okjclnqxk5"
194
The formation of early Imperial peregrine ekxkvcvgu in Dalmatia: (Re)
constructing indigenous communities after the conquest
Fcpklgn"Fkpq"
219
The Batavians between Germania and Rome: The emergence of a
soldiering people
Pkeq"Tq{ocpu"
232
Afterword: When empires colapse
Uvcc"Dcdk5"
List of contributors
Index

252
257
261

The Hellenization process

and the Balkan Iron Age archaeology
Kxcp"Xtcpk5
The concept of Hellenization is a versatile theoretical perspective that
considers numerous identity changes emerging from all forms of contacts
with the ancient Greece or with the Greek culture which have been taking
place in different (past or present) social settings. It is fair to say that
pwogtqwu"cwvjqtu"jcxg"dggp"wukpi"vjg"eqpegrv"ykvjqwv"engctn{"fgpkpi"kv."
i.e. without considering its coherent meaning, chronology and theoretical
backgrounds. Nevertheless, the term directly implies some references
to modern European perception about others who are, supposedly,
becoming Greek or Greek-like by means of passive acceptance of
the superior material culture, language, customs or other characteristics
of the ancient Greek way of life which were incorporated into their local
and previously less developed social settings (Dietler 1997: 296-297;
Hodos 2006: 11). It is widely believed that the ancient Hellenization
process, traditionally perceived as a simple and unilateral spreading of
Itggm" kpwgpegu." ykvjqwv" cp{" tgeqipkvkqp" qh" tgekrtqekv{." tgukuvcpeg." cpf"
non-Greek agency in the Mediterranean, begins with the initial colonial
encounters in the Archaic period. This process varies depending on the later
social and historical contexts, subsequently resulting in some differences in
the presupposed intensity of the identity changes. As a result, researchers
usually focus on the Hellenistic period as a historic era characterized by
the widespread Greek imperial domination, where the Hellenization
is believed to be the most extensive and intensive aspect of this period.
(Rostovtzeff 1941; Momigliano 1971).
The reasons for this unilateral perspective are numerous and conclusive.
Beginning with the eighteen-century Philhellenism and remaining
prominent ever since, the enduring importance of the ancient Greek culture
and material heritage as a form of symbolic capital has held a prominent
role in the political development of modernity and social construction of the
Western world. Starting from the Enlightenment period, this phenomenon
has allowed for a possibility of discussing different aspects of the modern
Hellenization. This perpetual interest in classical antiquity has allowed
for the western Hellenism a modern social construction of the classical
antiquity as the genealogical foundation, the birthplace and the
cradle of Western civilization as well as for the ultimate appreciation of
the emerging European upper and middle classes as heirs to this classical
heritage (Morris 2000: 37-76; Hamilakis 2007: 27, 76-83).
Conceptual similarities and the same intellectual background with the
traditional view on Roman heritage and Romanization (see Hingley
2000; 2005) are visible in every step. Romanization and Hellenization
are two related and comparable European narratives that focus on the
ancient Greece and Rome, which are both perceived as the beginning

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of the Western civilization and the starting point for the evolution of our
distinctive history (Shanks 1996; Dietler 2005; Diaz-Andreu 2007: 105110; Morley 2009). Undoubtedly, both narratives are Eurocentric; they are
also Hellenocentric and Romanocentric. Consequently, the theories related
to the ancient Hellenization should be perceived as European scholarly
vtcfkvkqpu" vjcv" oquvn{" tggev" oqfgtp" eqnqpkcn" dgnkghu" kpvq" vjg" eqpuvtwevgf"
images and representations of the ancient past (Cartledge 2002; Hodos
2006).
By scrutinizing the academic and wider social constructions and
political usage of the Hellenization concept in the case of the Balkan
Iron Age archaeology, this paper deals only with some of the socio-political
and interpretative issues related mostly to the south-eastern European
context. However, it also aims to position these local scholarly traditions
within the wider European intellectual background. Simultaneously with
the introduction and employment of the Romanization concept, which
is a more prominent and widely known Eurocentric academic tradition
kp" vjg" tgikqp" *Okjclnqxk5" 4234+." vjg" qvjgt" eqnqpkcn" cpf" gorktg" dwknfkpi"
perspectives have found their way into the culture-historical archaeology
of the south-eastern Europe, sometimes quite directly and sometimes
altered and adjusted for the local academic and political consumption. The
Hellenization concept is just one of the examples.

The Iron Age Archaeology in the Balkans:

ewnvwtgu"cpf"kpwgpegu
The most prominent characteristic of the prehistoric archaeology practice in
the south-eastern Europe is a long-lasting domination of a branch of culturehistorical archaeology that, in most cases, stemmed from central European
cpf"Igtocp"cecfgoke"vtcfkvkqpu"*Rcncxguvtc"4233="Pqxcmqxk5"4233+0
Primarily, this theoretical approach sets sights on a pursuit for relative
and absolute chronologies of archaeological cultures characteristic groups
of stylistically similar artefacts equated with different peoples, which,
supposedly, may be noticeable as abrupt or more subtle changes in the
ocvgtkcn"ewnvwtg."fkuvkpevkxg"hqt"uqog"tgikqpu"cpf"vkog"rgtkqfu"*g0i0"Xcuk5"
3;95="3;:9="Dgpce"3;:9="Vcuk5"3;;7+0"Kp"ceeqtfcpeg"ykvj"vjku"rgturgevkxg"
on culture and ethnicity as permanent and determined categories, culturehistorical archaeology through its evolutionary character, which is another
European narrative related to modern colonialism (see Gosden 1999: 1532), has initiated the quest for ethnogenesis the presupposed evolution
of tangible and stable ethnicities (Kaiser 1995; Kurta 2001: 6-35; Dzino
4232c<"5:/5;="Xtcpk5"4233+0"Cp"korqtvcpv"ejctcevgtkuvke"qh"vjg"crrtqcej"ku"
the strong belief of its advocates that this methodology allows for an easy
kfgpvkecvkqpqh" vjg" ngcfkpi" ewnvwtcn" vtckvu" cpf" vjg" rtqeguu" qh" umgvejkpi"
their development and a wider chronological position.
Consequently, Greek and Roman written sources that mention some
of the ancient peoples (see Papazoglu 1978; ael-Kos 2005) become a
tempting starting point in the study of the Iron Age archaeological cultures
and their supposed ethnic backgrounds (i.e. the Paleo-Balkan peoples or
tribes). This theoretical perspective supposes that some ethnic and cultural

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identities may have existed in a more-or-less stable form for millennia prior
vq" vjgkt" tuv" tgeqtfgf" gpeqwpvgtu" ykvj" vjg" Greeks and Romans, and that
culture-historical archaeology retains the proper methodological tools for
following and documenting these changes (Garaanin 1988). Within the
former Yugoslavias archaeological traditions, the Iron Age was perceived as
a period when the ethnogenesis of numerous archaeological cultures/the
ancient peoples had reached a point when their differences became strict
and easy to recognize in ocvgtkcn"ewnvwtg"*g0i0"Xcuk5"3;;3+0"Uwdugswgpvn{."
the main objective for most researchers in the region remains to search
for the ethnonyms of the Iron Age cultures and to argue their supposed
origins, previous phases and cultural continuity, deriving at the very least
from the Bronze Age (e.g. Illyrian Autariatae the Glasinac-Mati complex,
Dardani the Brnjica culture, Triballi the supposedly united Early Iron
Age culture in the Velika Morava valley).
Cpqvjgt" rtqokpgpv" hgcvwtg" qh" vjg" crrtqcej" ku" c" urgeke" vjgqtgvkecn"
perspective on cultural changes alterations in the material culture of the
supposed ethnicity, which, unsurprisingly, have been constantly reoccurring
over this long period. Traditionally, archaeologists have interpreted these
ejcpigu" cu" kpwgpegu" cpf" okitcvkqpu" urtgcfkpi" dgvyggp" vjg" PaleoBalkan peoples from some more developed cultures and centres. Hence,
vtcekpi" vjg" qtkikp" qh" vjgug" kpwgpegu" cpf" guvcdnkujkpi" uqog" uwrrqugf"
historical references that may lead to the introduction of the material
culture of a new style has become another important element of culturehistorical archaeology in the Balkans. As a direct consequence, some early
1st millennium BC changes that are documented as the emergence of the
incrusted pottery in the Danube region (i.e. Basarabi complex), are often
rgtegkxgf" cu" gcuvgtp" *Vjtceq/Ekoogtkcp+" okitcvkqpu" *Vcuk5" 3;93="
1983: 109-136), whereas the middle 1st millennium BC changes, which
ctg" pqvkegcdng" cu" vjg" crrgctcpeg" qh" urgeke" hqtou" qh" ogvcn" ctvghcevu." ctg"
ncdgnngf" cu" Ue{vjkcp" kpwgpegu*Rctqxk5/Rgkmcp" 3;;6+0" Vjg" material
culture changes that are stylistically comparable to the pre-Roman Iron Age
Italy, which are also visible in the Western Balkans from the 7th century BC,
ctg"kpvgtrtgvgf"cu"Kvcnq/Gvtwuecp"*Rctqxk5/Rgkmcp"3;:7+."yjkng"uwrrqugf"
Itggm"kpwgpegu"ctg"urqvvgf"kp"vjg"Jgnngpk|gf"ocvgtkcn"ewnvwtgu"qh"vjg"
southern and costal parts of the peninsula. This Hellenized regions are
located in the modern-day FYR Ocegfqpkc" *Uqmqnqxumc" 3;:8=" Okmwn7km"
3;;;+."vjg"uqwvjgtp"egpvtcn"Ugtdkc"cpf"Mquqxq"cpf"Ogvqjklc"*Rctqxk5/Rgkmcp"
3;:7="R0"Rqrqxk5"4225+"cpf"c"pcttqy"uvtkr"qh"ncpf"kp"vjg"Adriatic hinterland
neighbouring the Greek colonies from the 4th century BC (Papazoglu 1967;
Wilkes 1992: 156-180). A similar process of Hellenization is visible on
the territory of modern-day Bulgaria (e.g. Archibald 1998) and Albania (e.g.
Wilkes 1992: 156-180).

Hellenization: an evolutionary
and civilizing perspective
Researchers interested in the Balkan Iron Age have ultimately managed to
construct one more-or-less widely accepted but not thoroughly consistent
culture-historical narrative that considers different intensity levels of the

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The Hellenization process and the Balkan Iron Age archaeology

urtgcfkpi"qh"vjg"Itggm"kpwgpegu0"Vjg"eqooqp"vjtgcf"qh"vjku"crrtqcej"
ku" vjcv" vjg" uwrrqugf" korcev" qh" kpwgpegu" wrqp" vjg" uvtkevn{" fgpgf" Iron
Age cultures, which should be archaeologically measurable according to
vjg"rtgugpeg"qh"nqqugn{"fgpgf"Itggm"cpf"Itggm/nkmg"material culture,
varies considerably depending, in most cases, on the distance from the Greek
sources. Other factors can include a regional historical context or some
urgeke" *cpf" fgvgtokpgf+" ejctcevgtkuvkeu" qh" vjg" Iron Age archaeological
ewnvwtgu"cpf"vjgkt"uwrrqugf"tgcfkpguu"vq"ceegrv"vjg"kpwgpegu0"Wnvkocvgn{."
most culture-historical authors agree that some cultures have only begun
the process, which should be similar and archaeologically comparable in
all regions and cultures, while others have reached the level of the fully
developed Hellenized early states (Papazoglu 1967; 1988; Delev 1998).
Consequently, disagreements emerge about the level of Hellenization.
The common thread of the approach, most certainly due to the general
importance of Greek culture in the western European intellectual traditions
(see Shanks 1996; Morley 2009), is that traditional researchers have been
very keen to regard Hellenized cultures of the south-eastern Europe as if
they had reached the level of civilization and stepped into the historic
gtc"*Xtcpk5"4234c+0"
Traditional archaeology explores different ways of spreading of the
Itggm"kpwgpegu" qp"vyq"htqpvu<"cu"c"fktgev"tguwnv"qh"vjg"Ctejcke"qt"uqog"
later colonial endeavours on the Adriatic and the Black Sea shores, or
through contacts taking place in the continental regions neighbouring
Greece from the north. Beside the colonies of Grkfcopqu (F{ttjcejkqp)
and Crqnnqpkc founded in the late 7th century BC in modern-day Albania
(Wilkes, Fischer-Hansen 2004: 324), the question of the elusive Archaic
period settlements on the eastern Adriatic shores produced very little results
(see Wilkes 1992: 109-116; Wilkes 1969: 1-8). Most researchers argue that
vjg"tuv"eqnqp{"kp"Dalmatia is the 6th century BC settlement on the island
Ognckppc" Mqtm{tc" *oqfgtp/fc{" Mqt7wnc+" *Nkuk7ct" 3;73=" Yknmgu" 3;;4<"
114; Wilkes, Fischer-Hansen 2004: 325). Even though there are some rare
examples of Corinthian, Attic and Apulian pottery from this period, found
in the Dalmatian cost (ael-Kos 2005:185; Kirigin gv"cn. 2009: 140) and
recognized as the material representation of the beginning of the process
of Hellenization through some small-scale contacts in this early stage,
vjg" oquv" pwogtqwu" pfu" rgtvckp" vq" vjg" 6th century colonization of the
middle Dalmatian islands of Pharos (Hvar) and Kuuc" *Xku+" *Nkuk7ct" 3;73="
Dzino 2010b: 31-43). Related to the political interests of Dionysios I of
Syracuse, this second wave of colonization stands for a different social,
economic and historical context that is usually considered as the beginning
of the wider Hellenization process of the Illyrian communities on the
littoral (Papazoglu 1967; 1988). Some similar small-scale impact of the
Archaic period colonization on neighbouring communities is also visible in
the region of modern-day Bulgaria that neighbours the colony of Crqnnqpkc"
Rqpvkec (Tzochev 2011).
Interestingly, the earliest appearance of a more substantial number of
artefacts produced in Ctejcke"Itggeg."wuwcnn{"dncem/iwtg"Eqtkpvjkcp"cpf"
Athenian pottery or some Ionian forms, is in the continental region of the
Iron Age Pelagonia, region of the N{jpkf (Ohridsko) lake and the Lower
Vardar Valley, all of which are located in modern-day FYR Macedonia
*Okmwn7k5"3;88<"52+0"Uvctvkpi"htqo"vjg"9th century BC, the Iron Age sites in

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vjku"tgikqp"&"kpenwfkpi"vjg"oquv"rtqokpgpv"8th and 5th century BC necropolis

htqo"Vtgdgpkvg"vjcv"ku"ykfgn{"tgeqipk|cdng"d{"vjg"pfu"qh"uqwvjgtp"Kvcnke"
ogvcn"xguugnu"*Nl0"Rqrqxk5"3;78="Exklgvk5cpkp"4233+"cdqwpf"ykvj"korqtvu"
htqo"vjg"Itggm"yqtmujqru"*Xcuk5"3;:9<"953/954+0"Eqpugswgpvn{."culturehistorical archaeology comes to a general agreement that starting as early as
the 7th"egpvwt{"DE"vjgug"uqwvjgtp"eqpvkpgpvcn"tgikqpu"ctg"vjg"tuv"vq"dgeqog"
Jgnngpk|gf"*Xcuk5"3;;3<"99+0"Ocp{"cwvjqtu"iq"cu"hct"cu"ncdgnnkpi"vjg"8th and
5th century BC archaeological cultures here as a fully Hellenized society
dgnqpikpi"vq"vjg"Ctejcke"cpf"vjg"Encuukecn"rgtkqf"*Okmwn7k5"3;88+."qt"lwuv"
representing the locally developed Greco-Illyrian culture (Wilkes 1992:
106-108; Theodossiev 2000).
Qvjgt" tctg" korqtvgf" pfu" kp" vjg" Iron Age Balkans which are not
tgeqipk|gf"cu"gxkfgpegu"qh"vjg"hwnn{"gfigf"Hellenization but do indicate
uqog" gctn{" eqpvcevu" ykvj" vjg" Itggm" yqtnf." ctg" eqppgf" vq" Kqpkcp" *oquvn{"
Wave-Line Style), Corinthian and Athenian rqvvgt{"*Rctqxk5/Rgkmcp"3;:7<"
62/63=" 3;;:+0"Vjgug" uecteg" pfu" jcxg" dggp" eqptogf" kp" vjg" pqtvjgtp" cpf"
more remote continental parts of the peninsula modern day southern parts
of central Serbia and Kosovo and Metohija. However, the most prominent
Early Iron Age imports from these northern regions come from the Princely
graves the tumulus constructions which usually consist of the remains of
cremated individuals of a presupposed higher social status which date back to
the late 7th or early 6th"vq"vjg"tuv"jcnh"qh"vjg"7th century BC (Palavestra 1995;
Dcdk5"4224+0"Vjgug"dwtkcn"ukvgu."ejctcevgtkuvke"qh"vjg"Glasinac-Mati complex,
ctg"tkej"kp"dncem/iwtg"pottery, amber ornaments, bronze vessels and other
forms of luxury artefacts which are traced to the Archaic period Italic, the
mainland Greek or Ionian workshops. Yet, the entire region beyond the elite
burials, including the numerous hilltop settlements, remains prehistoric
in character and the Greek imports are scarce, which ultimately leads to the
eqpenwukqp"vjcv"vjku"pqtvjgtp"tgikqp."gxgp"kh"tggevkpi"vjg"dgikppkpi"qh"vjg"
Hellenizing process, remained embedded in the Early Iron Age context.

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It is widely believed that the intensity of the process grew over time,
subsequently enlarging the Hellenized territories. From the middle of
the 5th century BC in the Upper and the Middle Vardar course a region
neighbouring the already Hellenized Pelagonia and the Lower Vardar
valley the locally produced material culture begins to imitate the
uwrrqugf" Itggm" tqng" oqfgnu" *Rctqxk5/Rgkmcp" 3;:7=" Uqmqnqxumc" 3;:8="
Okmwn7km"3;;;="Rqrqxk5"4225+0"Eqpvtct{"vq"vjg"rtgxkqwu"gnkvg"ecugu"htqo"
the Glasinac-Mati complex in the north, these middle-5th century changes
are characterized by the emergence of the locally produced Greek-like
material culture for everyday use. These new forms include a very elaborately
dwknv"cujnct"cpf"owfdtkem"tcorctvu"*Okmwn7km"3;;;="Dkvtcmqxc/Itq|fcpqxc"
2006), wheel-made Hellenized pottery (Sokolovska 1992) and a substantial
increase in imported material, i.e. the North Aegean transport amphorae, Attic
cpf"Ejcnekfkeg"Rgpkpuwnc"tgf/iwtg"*Rctqxk5/Rgkmcp"3;;4+"cpf"Uv"Xcngpvkpg"
yctgu" *Rctqxk5/Rgkmcp" 3;;4=" Mtuvk5" 4227+0" Hqnnqykpi" vjg" kpvtqfwevkqp"
of new styles in Athens, some other changes are also visible but the entire
material culture setting remains Greek-like in appearance. The most visible

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of these later changes are the introduction of the 4th and early 3rd century BC
black and red glazed Athenian pottery followed by the 3rd and 2nd century
BC Hellenistic imports, including the moulded Megarian bowls and the
West Slope ware (Bitrakova-Grozdanova 1987). This vast continental region,
which became Hellenized starting from the 5th century BC, encompasses
the territories supposedly belonging to the Paeonians and the Thracians.
These territories extend beyond the Vardar valley all the way to the central
parts of the modern-day Bulgaria (Maritza and Tundza valleys) (Archibald
1998) at the same time leaving aside the entire Glasinac-Mati complex
embedded in prehistoric traditions.
Most traditional authors argue that Hellenization leads toward
civilization and perceive these changes as the end of the Iron Age and
the beginning of the historic era (Papazoglu 1967; 1980; 1988; Sokolovska
3;:8="Xcuk5"3;;3="Okmwn7km"3;;;+0"Vjg"uwrrqugf"jkijnkijvu"qh"vjg"rtqeguu"
are visible in the territory conquered and incorporated in the Mediterranean
political sphere of interest by Philip II in the middle of the 4th"egpvwt{"DE"&"
regions which interestingly correspond to the area of the earlier (5th century)
Hellenization. The ultimate outcome, or as culture-historical archaeology
yqwnf"jcxg"kv."vjg"pcn"rtqqh"qh"ekxknk|kpi"cevkxkvkgu"kp"vjg"jkpvgtncpf."ku"
the Hellenistic-like socio-political context in this area which is established
during the middle of the 4th" egpvwt{" DE" &" ugxgtcn" fgecfgu" gctnkgt" vjcp"
Alexanders Persian campaign. Perceived as the result of the large-scale
Ocegfqpkcp" rqnke{." vjku" urgeke" korgtkcn" eqpvgzv" ngcfu" vq" cp" codkxcngpv"
idea that Philip IIs conquest could be labelled as the beginning of the
Hellenistic period in the Balkans (Delev 1998). This historical landscape
is often compared with the situation emerging in the East after Alexanders
conquest. It is important to emphasize that this academic discourse and
theoretical position strikingly resembles the culture-historical perspective
on the local identity changes resulting from the Roman conquest a few
centuries later. This short-term imperial domination of the Macedonian
cto{."gxgp"yjgp"kpwgpekpi"vjg"nqecn"eqoowpkvkgu."ku"c"urgeke"cpf"xgt{"
elusive historical context structurally different from the Hellenism in the
East and from the later Roman imperial endeavours in the Balkans.
The consequences of the traditional theoretical perspective, when
yg" eqpukfgt" vjg" jkuvqtkecn" tcokecvkqpu" qh" vjg" ujqtv/nkxgf" Ocegfqpkcp"
domination as the unquestionable beginning of the civilization and the
end of prehistory, are especially visible in the interpretation of the social
context emerging after the collapse of Alexanders empire. Local sociopolitical Paeonian and Thracian entities emerging in the late 4th and early
3rd century in these parts of the Balkans, are usually interpreted as barbarian
Hellenized or even Hellenistic monarchies or kingdoms (Papazoglu
1967; Delev 1998). Researchers in the south-eastern Europe are very
mggp" vq" ctiwg" vjcv" vjgug" gpvkvkgu" ctg" hwnn{" ciigf" uvcvg/ngxgn" uqekgvkgu" dwknv"
after the supposed Hellenistic role-models, which is an opinion that needs
to be approached from another perspective bearing in mind the numerous
Jgnngpqegpvtke"kpvgtrtgvcvkxg"rqukvkqpu."urgeke"nqecn"eqpvgzvu"cpf"vjg"tggzkxg"
nature of the archaeological work. Paeonian, Illyrian or Odrisian kingdoms
ctg" xgt{" urgeke" uqekq/rqnkvkecn" gpvkvkgu" qh" vjg" ncvgt" Dcnmcp" rtgjkuvqt{" cpf"
their appearance has still not been comprehended to a satisfactory level (see
Papazoglu 1988; Wilkes 1992: 156-180; Archibald 1998).

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Roman conquest and the Hellenization narrative

The complex entanglement of the different European narratives, including the
Hellenization and the Romanization concepts in the local archaeology,
becomes even more prominent in the case of these same Paleo-Balkan
communities after the Roman conquest. The supposed importance of the
Hellenization process as the initial civilizing movement retains its
prominent position even within the Roman Empire. It is widely accepted
that because of the importance of the Greek culture those regions that had
already became Hellenized had never accepted Roman culture to the
same extent as it was the case with other uncivilized areas. An appropriate
example is the dividing line between Greek and Latin during the Roman
reign which more-or-less follows the previously established northern line
of the Iron Age Hellenization (Papazoglu 1980).
This position, which argues that the Greek culture kept its dominance
in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries, is also consistent with the
traditional European academic perspective on ancient Greece after the
Roman conquest (i.e. the paradox of Roman Greece). Up until recently,
this very complicated issue of what happened with Greek identities in the
Roman period has remained either neglected or answered following the
established picture of the ancient Greece as a culturally superior, but morally
and politically inferior entity that had passed the torch of leadership to
the successor state of Rome (Alcock 2002: 36-40). Archaeologists and
historians in the south-eastern Europe took the similar interpretative path.
In accordance with the argument related to the eternal importance of
Greek culture stands an interpretation of some material culture changes,
which are often labelled as Hellenistic in style, that appear in the Balkans
after the Roman conquest, ultimately leading to the hypothesis of the
Tqocp" Jgnngpkuo" *Ocpq/kuk" 3;79." Rqrqxk5" 3;:9+0" Vjku" kpvgtguvkpi"
interpretative perspective which argues for the importance of the Greek
culture (original or one already Hellenized) is so pervasive that the
Roman rule in Greece and other places of the Balkans is perceived to be
resulting in yet another spreading of the Greek material culture into the
previously uncivilized regions.

Nationalism and European civilization:

culture-historical archaeology of the Balkan Iron Age
This interpretative path discussing the Hellenization (or Romanization)
qh" vjg" uvtkevn{" fgpgf" archaeological cultures and supposed ethnicities
from the past, represents an important local segment of the wider European
culture-historical narrative, characteristic for the late 19th"cpf"vjg"tuv"jcnh"
of the 20th century. Modern national movements as well as the general
importance of the concept of nation-state played a pivotal role in the
recognition and subsequent construction of cultures and ethnicities from
vjg"rcuv"cu"fktgev"tggevkqpu"qh"vjg"oqfgtp"Gwtqrgcp"uqekcn"eqpvgzv"yjkej"
ultimately gave birth to the discipline itself (Jones 1997; 2007; Meskell
2002; Lucy 2005). Importantly, this ethnocentric perspective was the
tuv" eqjgtgpv" ctejcgqnqikecn" vjgqt{" vq" crrgct" kp" uqwvj/gcuvgtp" Europe,

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simultaneously following, shaping and determining the emergence of the

tuv" oqfgtp" pcvkqpcn" kfgpvkvkgu" *F|kpq" 4232c=" Pqxcmqxk5" 4233=" Xtcpk5"
2011). The concepts of the Paleo-Balkan peoples as stable ethnicities
with the long-lasting ethno-cultural traditions were constructed within
this socio-political context granting the newly formed nations with a
urgeke"hqto"qh"eqnngevkxg"rcuv"identity which played an important role of
providing for the mythic ancestry in the construction of modern imagined
communities (cf. Anderson 1983).
The second ethnocentric standpoint of culture-historical archaeology,
yjkej"cnuq"tggevu"oqfgtp"kfgcu"cpf"eqpegrvu"kpvq"vjg"eqpuvtwevgf"rkevwtg"
of the past, is the perspective on cultural changes, e.g. the spreading of
Itggm" kpwgpegu" cpf" vjg" uwrrqugf" ekxknk|kpi" qh" vjg" Paleo-Balkan
peoples. This other feature of the traditional European archaeology has
cnuq"hqwpf"kvu"yc{"kpvq"vjg"nqecn"ctejcgqnqikecn"vjgqt{"cu"c"urgeke"rtcevkeg"
stemming, in the most general sense, from the western colonial approach
(cf. Gosden 2004; 2007). Probably the most prominent colonial standpoint
is the view that Philip the IIs conquest in the middle of the 4th century
BC changed the local context and initiated the Hellenistic period (and
consequently a local form of modernist Hellenism) in the Balkan hinterland
several decades prior to Alexanders conquest of the east.
The pitfalls of the colonial narratives in archaeology usually affect the
European academic environments interested in the Greek and Roman period
(Hingley 2000; 2005; Goff 2005; Dietler 2005; Hurst, Owen 2005). In the
case of Hellenization in the Balkan Iron Age, the concept of civilized
dctdctkcpu" cpf" vjg" uwrrqugf" gogtigpeg" qh" vjg" tuv" Jgnngpk|gf" uvcvgu"
resulting from the contacts with the ancient Greeks are the most visible
example of the local usage of the same narratives. These evolutionary
and deterministic concepts equip the culture-historical archaeologists in
the south-eastern Europe with a theoretical means to pinpoint the exact
historical moment when the stable and recognizable archaeological cultures/
the ancient peoples became civilized. Once Hellenized, these Iron
Age cultures became an inseparable part of the wider Mediterranean
history a region so important in the construction of different and changing
Gwtqrgcp"kfgpvkvkgu"*ugg"Oqttku"4225+."cpf"vjgkt"ukipkecpeg"ujqwnf"dg"gcukn{"
recognizable by other scholars educated in the same European traditions.
At the same time, the Iron Age cultures became a more visible locally
constructed heritage of the modern Balkan nation-states. Consequently,
the entire Iron Age heritage of one country becomes more valuable
and European form of mythic ancestry an interpretative perspective
theoretically embedded in the local application of the two related modern
European narratives: colonial and imperial perspectives about the Classical
world on the one hand, and modern nationalism, on the other.

The Iron Age identities and the Hellenization concept:

concluding remarks
This culture-historical perspective on the Iron Age identities does not
withstand contemporary theoretical scrutiny emerging from the postmodern
and poststructuralist approaches. All forms of identity, including ethnic and

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41

ewnvwtcn" qpgu." ujqwnf" dg" rgtegkxgf" cu" wgpv." ejcpigcdng" cpf" fgxgnqrkpi"
within some local habitus (Graves-Brown gv" n. 1996; Diaz-Andreu gv" n.
2005; Insoll 2007). As a result, examples of the imported Archaic and Early
Classical Greek pottery and subsequent expansion of the Hellenized
material culture in the 5th and 4th century BC in some parts of the Balkans
are manifestations of conscious activities of the agents who are habituated
within the local Iron Age contexts. Consequently, the Hellenized material
culture does not necessarily represent the introduction of Greek customs; it
does not have the same role and meaning as it may hold within the Classical
or Hellenistic Greek world. Even though there is an increasing number of
korqtvu" &" oquvn{" htqo" vjg" ncvg" Encuukecn" cpf" Gctn{" Jgnngpkuvke"Cvjgpkcp"
yqtmujqru" &" vjg" oclqtkv{" qh" vjg" pgy/uv{ng" Jgnngpk|gf" material culture
is produced locally, and for the local consumption. This expansion of the
similar Hellenized material culture within the previously distinctive Iron
Age cultures speaks about contacts and social changes that may not be
related to ethnicity at all, but to construction of some new hybrid forms of
different identities.
The European Iron Age in general is a prehistoric period when the most
visible form of identity is status kfgpvkv{"*Ygnnu"3;:2="Dcdk5"4227+."cpf"vjg"
case from the Balkans is no exception (Palavestra 1995; Archibald 1998;
Dcdk5" 4224+0" Vjg" tuv" crrgctcpeg" qh" vjg" Itggm" cpf" Kvcnke" korqtvu" kp" vjg"
Princely graves in the hinterland symbolizes the importance of these
foreign artefacts in the construction of the local Iron Age status identities.
Subsequently, the appearance of the vast amount of Hellenized and
imported material in the regions that during the 4th century BC became
rctv" qh" Cpekgpv" Ocegfqpkcp" rqnkvkecn" kpwgpeg" fqgu" pqv" fkokpkuj" vjg"
prominence of this form of identities. Today, more researchers point out
the importance of status identity and its transformations emerging from the
old warrior elites new practice of enrolling into the Greek and Macedonian
mercenary activities and creating a new form of Hellenized status group
*Pcpmqx"4233="Xtcpk5"4234d+0""
This new hybrid form of identity may be the most probable agency
behind the process of Hellenization. The developed taste for Greek
products including vine and glazed pottery is an appropriate context for the
widespread appearance of the Greek material culture. The emergence of
the Mediterranean forms of architecture may be explained in the same way.
This form of local consumption does not necessarily denote the introduction
qh" vjg" Itggm" ewnvwtcn" eqpvgzv." yjkej" ku" vjg" oquv" rtqokpgpv" cy" qh" vjg"
culture-historical archaeology. In addition, the traditional perspective has
placed enormous importance on the cultural and ethnic identities which
are supposedly becoming Hellenized and Greek-like, at the same time
keeping their previous ethnic distinctiveness, whereas other forms of group
and individual identities remain a neglected topic.

***
The traditional concept of Hellenization in the Balkans, which pertains to
the process of civilizing the strictly determined ethnicities and cultures,
is a theoretical perspective that has developed locally, but in accordance
with the modern European colonial and national narratives. Adjusted to the

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local historic but also modern socio-political context, this concept continues
to serve as an interpretative framework in the traditional archaeological
practices designed for understanding the process of identity changes during
the Iron Age. It is informative about the modern nation building, global
image of the Balkans and the positioning of the local nations and their
heritage within the wider European political history.
This is by no means the only western perspective incorporated into
the local archaeological traditions. Numerous conceptual similarities with
the traditional theoretical perspective of Romanization, which plays an
even more prominent role in the local academic discourse and derives
from the same European socio-political context of the development of the
discipline, speak about the importance of shared practices of archaeology as
a discipline on the continent. As two sides of the same coin, both concepts
are modern, colonial, imperial, Eurocentric, evolutionistic narratives related
to contemporary picture of the Classical past, and they have both found
their way into the local archaeological practices. A possible deconstruction
of social aspects related to the application of these two narratives into the
archaeological discipline of the different Balkan countries should shed
different light on the past identities in the region, but also on the establishing
of local academic practices.
The region, which is already perceived by that same Western world as
the other, semicolonial, incomplete self, ambiguous, or a bridge
and crossroad toward the Orient (Todorova 2009), abounds in Greek,
Hellenized or Roman material culture, leading the local scholars
kp" c" rqukvkqp"vq" vt{" vq" pf" c" rtqrgt" vjgqtgvkecn"rgturgevkxg"yjkej" yknn"dg"
understandable to a wider European community. Therefore, it comes as
no surprise that the local researchers apply the same modernist thoughts
and European narratives. However, these are local perspectives and they
focus primarily on the classical Greek and Roman stereotypes about the
Paleo-Balkan people as barbarian and uncivilized other pointing out
that these peoples are more developed than they have been given credit
for. At the same time, these viewpoints try to show the Western world that
valuable and civilized heritage exists in the Balkans, even in regions
far away from Greece and in a period prior to the Roman conquest. It is fair
to say that Western narratives about Romanization, Hellenization and
the emergence of the European ekxknk|cvkqp" jcxg" uwduvcpvkcnn{" kpwgpegf"
the local archaeological schools in a manner that appropriates some heritage
as more valuable and presentable to the global and local audience. To put it
differently, maybe western Balkanism has shaped the local archaeological
responses in a way to prioritize the question of when and how the
civilizing process of the different local Iron Age cultures takes place,
supposedly allowing their admittance into the wider European history
and heritage. A question remains, though, whether the western and local
cultural histories are really confronted in this case (cf. Morris 2000). We
should consider whether this civilizing position appears solely as an
outcome of the western prejudices, or the reason for the strong endurance
of these approaches lies in the fact that local researchers were educated
in western universities, or according to western academic traditions, and,
consequently, they were keen to use the same approach. The most accurate
answer to these questions would require, I believe, accounting for and
considering both of these perspectives.

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Acknowledgments
The paper is a result of the research project of the Institute of Archaeology
Serbian Archaeology: Ewnvwtcn"kfgpvkv{."kpvgitcvkqp"hcevqtu."vgejpqnqikecn"
rtqeguugu"cpf"vjg"tqng"qh"Egpvtcn"Dcnmcpu"kp"vjg"fgxgnqrogpv"qh"Gwtqrgcp"
Rtgjkuvqt{ (OI177020), funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and
Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.

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