Globalization Theory Of Globalisation

The complex nature of the Roman Empire’s expansion throughout Europe and the Mediterranean has been a topic of discussion and various theories for many decades. Emerging from the theories of Romanisation, creolization and others, the likening of the Roman identity, culture and economy to the model of globalisation has become one of the more common and well applicable views in today’s archaeology. This essay will discuss the issues of globalisation as a theory and to what extent Europe and the Mediterranean can be considered globalised. This will be illustrated on examples of movements of goods, people and artistic thought.

Globalisation theory in the context of the Roman Empire emerged partially from the concept of Romanisation and the multiple attempts to devise a more fluid model suitable for describing the complex nature of the Roman economy (Versluys 2014, 13). Although some have suggested that our contemporary view on globalisation might not be entirely applicable that far back in history, the underlying concepts of globalisation such as the compression of time and space, enhanced relations between parts of the world and a movement towards certain homogeneity in goods and artistic styles, can be considered relevant even in a non-modern context (Witcher 2000, 3). However, as ‘globalisation’ and ‘global’ are terms which arose from our

Migration on a large scale has been extensively recorded in the Bay of Naples, where dental records from the necropolis of Isola Sacra have shown that large numbers of the people buried there were born outside of Naples or migrated to the location in their childhood (Prowse et al. 2007,