Professor Simon Keay

Professor Simon Keay

Archaeology
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF

Position: Professor
Primary research group: Classical and Historical Archaeology
Affiliated research groups: Maritime Archaeology; Esteem Indicators: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Corresponding member of Institut d'Estudis Catalans; Member of the Consell Cientific del Institut Catala d’Arqueologia Classica

Location: 65A/3031
Extension: 22244
Telephone: (023) 8059 2244
Fax: (023) 8059 3032
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Research interests

Professor Simon Keay researches into the archaeology of the Roman Empire, with particular emphasis on trade, urbanism and culture change in the west Mediterranean basin and ploughzone archaeology. He has undertaken field projects in Spain at Tarragona, Peñaflor and Italica and has recently completed the AHRC-funded project “Urban Connectivity in Iron-Age and Roman Southern Spain” project, which he is currently publishing jointly with Dr. Graeme Earl (Southampton). He was PI and co-director of the AHRC-funded “Roman towns in the Tiber Valley Project”, the publication of which is nearly complete, and Director of the AHRC funded project “Roman Amphorae: A Digital Resource”. He is currently Research Professor at the British School at Rome, where he directs BSR archaeology and its geophysics programme in conjunction with APSS of the University of Southampton, the PI of the AHRC-funded “Portus Project”, which he co-directs with Graeme Earl (Southampton) and Martin Millett (Cambridge), Director of the “Port Networks Project” and co-Director (with Martin Millett of the University of Cambridge) of the study of Roman towns in southern Lazio and northern Campania.

Selection of Publications

Authored and Co-authored Books

  • Keay, S. (1984), Late Roman Amphorae in the Western Mediterranean: A Typology and Economic Study. The Catalan Evidence. BAR International Series 196 (2 vols). Oxford: BAR (currently reprinting)
  • Keay, S. (1988), Roman Spain. London & San Francisco: British Museum Publications and the University of California Press.
  • Roure i Bonaventura, A., Castanyer P.J.M. Nolla, Keay S. & Tarrús J. (1988), La vil.la romana de Vilauba (Camós). Girona, Generalitat: Generalitat de Catalunya & La Diputació de Girona.
  • Keay, S. (1992), Hispania Romana. Barcelona, Ausa Editorial (updated translation of Roman Spain).
  • Carreté, J. M. Keay, S. and Millett, M. (1995), A Roman Provincial Capital and its Hinterland. The Survey of the Territory of Tarragona 1985-1990. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series Number 15. Michigan, JRA.
  • Keay, S. Creighton, J. & Remesal Rodríguez, J. (2000), Celti (Peñaflor). The Archaeology of a Hispano Roman Town in Baetica. University of Southampton Department of Archaeology Monograph No.2. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
  • Keay, S. Creighton, J. & Remesal Rodríguez, J. (2001), Celti (Peñaflor). La Arqueolgía de una ciudad hispanorromana en la Bética. Seville, Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía.
  • Keay, S. Millett, M. Paroli, L. Patterson, H., Strutt, K. (2006), Portus. An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome 1998-2001. Rome, British School at Rome & Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia.

Edited and co-edited Books

  • Cunliffe, B., Keay S. (eds.), (1995), Social Complexity and the Development of Towns in Iberia. From the Copper Age to the Second Century AD. Proceedings of the British Academy 86 Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Díaz Andreu, M., Keay, S. (1996), The Archaeology of Iberia. The Dynamics of Change: The Case of the Iberian Peninsula. London, Routledge.
  • Keay, S. (1998), The Archaeology of Early Roman Baetica. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement Number 29. Portsmouth R.I, JRA.
  • Keay, S. & Terrenato, N. (eds.), (2001), Italy and the West. Comparative Issues in Romanization. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
  • Keay, S. & Moser, S. (eds.), (Forthcoming 2004), Greek Art in View. Papers in Honour of Brian A. Sparkes. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
  • Abad Casal, L. Keay, S. & Ramallo Asensio, S. (eds.), (2006), The Early Roman Towns of Hispania Tarraconensis. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series. Portsmouth R.I., JRA.
  • S. Keay & L. Paroli (eds) (Forthcoming 2010) Portus and its Hinterland: Recent Archaeological Research. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome. London, British School at Rome.

Book Contributions

  • Keay, S. (2001), Rome and the Hispaniae, in S. Keay, & N. Terrenato (eds.), Italy and the West. Comparative Issues in Romanization. Oxford, Oxbow, 117-144.
  • Keay, S. & Terrenato, N. (eds.) (2001), Introduction, in S. Keay, & N. Terrenato (eds.), Italy and the West. Comparative Issues in Romanization. Oxford, Oxbow, 1-5.
  • Keay, S. (2002), El dominio romana en la península ibérica durante  los siglos III y II a.c., in I. Rodà (ed.), Tarraco. Puerto de Roma. Barcelona, Fundación La Caixa, 19-25.
  • Keay, S. (2004), El Territorio de Tarraco, in X. Dupré (ed.), Los Capiteles Provinciales de Hispania. Rome, L’Erma de Bretschneider, 61-68.

Conference Contributions

  • Keay, S. (1995), The Role of Religion and Ideology in the romanization of south-eastern Tarraconensis’, in J. Metzler, M. Millett, N. Roymans and J. Slofstra (eds.), Integration in the Early Roman West. The Role of Culture and Ideology. Dossiers d’Archeologie du Musée Nationale d’Histoire et d’Árt IV. Luxembourg, Musée Nationale d’ Histoire et d’Art de Luxembourg, 33-43.
  • Keay, S. (1996), La romanización en el sur y el levante de España hasta la época de Augusto, in J. M. Blázquez and J. Alvar (eds.), La Romanización en Occidente. Madrid, Editorial Actas, 147-177.
  • Keay, S. (1996), Early Roman Italica and the romanization of western Baetica, in A. Caballos & P. León (eds.), ITALICA MMCC. Seville, Consejería de Cultura, 21-48.
  • Keay, S. (1996), Ideology and the Location of Roman Towns in Baetica, in R. Knapp (ed.), Mapping Ancient Iberia. Progress and Perspectives. The Classical Bulletin 72. Number 1, 51-57.
  • Keay, S., (1998), African Amphorae, in L. Saguí (ed.), Cerámica in Italia: VI-VII Secolo. Atti del Convegno in onore di John W. Hayes. Roma, 11-13 maggio 1995. Florence, Insegna de Giglio, 141-55.
  • Keay, S. (2000), Ceramic chronology and Roman rural settlement in the lower Guadalquivir valley during the Augustan period, in R. Francovich & H. Patterson (eds.), Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages. The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes 5. Oxford, Oxbow, 163-173.
  • Keay, S., Wheatley, D. & Poppy, S. (2001), The territory of Carmona during the Turdetanian and Roman periods: some preliminary notes about visibility and urban location, in A. Caballos (ed.), Carmona Romana. II Congreso de Historia de Carmona. Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla, 397-412.
  • Keay, S. (2001), Roman Towns and Cultural Change in Iberia between Caesar and the Flavians, in L. Hernández (ed.), Congreso Internacional de Historia Antigua. Valladolid, Universidad de Valladolid, 103-119.
  • Keay, S. & Wheatley, D. (2001), Fortifications in the lower Guadalquivir during the Turdetanian and Roman periods, in F. Amores (ed.), Fortificaciones entorno del bajo Guadalquivir. Congreso Internacional. Alcalà de Guadaira. Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla/Ayuntamiento de Alcalà de Guadaira, 81-107.
  • Keay, S. & Earl, G. (2007), Structuring of the provincial landscape: the towns in central and western Baetica in their geographical context, in G. Cruz Andreotti, P. Le Roux & P. Moret (edd.), La Invención de la geografía de la péninsula Ibérica: El Alto Imperio. Malaga/Madrid, Universidad de Málaga/Casa de Velázquez, 305-58.
  • Keay, S. (2007), Reflections on the Epigraphy of Roman Celti, in M Mayer, G. Baratta & A. Guzmán (edd.), XII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae. Provinciae Imperii Romani. Inscriptionibus Descriptae. Barcelona, 3-8 Septembris 2002. Monografies de la Secció Histórico Arqueológica X. Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 763-72.
  • Keay, S., Hay, S. & Strutt, K. (2007), Roman Urban Landscapes in Italy: An integrated approach, in M. Forte & S. Campana (edd.), From Space to Place. British Archaeological Reports. Oxford, BAR.
  • Keay, S., Earl, G. Hay, S., Kay, S. Ogden, J., Strutt, K. 2008, The Potential of Archaeological Geophysics: The Work of the British School at Rome in Italy, S. Piro (ed.) Geofisica: possibilita e limiti. Rome, CISTEC.
  • K. Strutt and S. Keay (2008) The Role of Integrated Geophysical Survey Methods in the Assessment of Archaeological Landscapes: the case of Portus. In R. Lasaponara and N. Masini (eds) Advances on Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management. Proceedings of the 1st International EARSeL Workshop CNR, Rome, September 30 – October 4, 2008. Rome, Consiglio Nazionale di Ricerca: 121-4.
  • R. Ferraby, S. Hay S. Keay and M. Millett (2008) Archaeological survey at Fregellae 2004-5. In C. Corsi & E. Polito (edd.), Dalle sorgenti alla foce. Il bacino del Liri-Garigliano nell’antichita: culture contatti, scambi. Atti del convegno, Frosinone-Formia 10-12 novembre 2005. Rome, Quasar, 125-31.
  • Hay, S., Keay, S., Millett, M. and Sly, T. 2009 Urban field-survey at Ocriculum (Otricoli, Umbria). In F. Coarelli and H. Patterson (eds) Mercator Placidissimus. The Tiber Valley in Antiquity. New Research in the Upper and Middle Valley. Rome, Quasar.
  • Salomon, F., Goiran, J.-P., Bravard, J.-P., Ballantyne, R., Margiritis, E., Keay, S. & Earl, G. & Kay, S. (2009) Delta du Tibre. Campagne de carrotage 2008. Etude des canaux de Portus. MEFRA 2009.1: 60-4.
  • S. Keay (2009) La riscoperta del “Palazzo Imperiale” di Porto. Rivista di Archeo. Dicembre 2009.
  • S. Keay (2009), Roman Mediterranean Ports. British Academy Bulletin 14. London, British Academy.
  • S. Keay & G. Boetto (eds) (In press 2010) Ostia, Portus and the ports of the Roman Mediterranean. Double session presented at the XVII Conference of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC) (Rome 2008). To be published by Bullettino di Archeologia On-Line (2010) (12 Chapters)

Journal Articles

  • Keay, S. (1999), Rodríguez Hidalgo, J. M., Creighton, J. & Jordan, D. 1999. La Itálica de Adriano. Resultados de las prospecciones arqueológicas de 1991 y 1992, Archivo Español de Arqueología 72, 73-97.
  • Keay, S. Millett, M., Poppy, S., Robinson, J., Taylor, J. & Terrenato, N. (2000), Falerii Novi: A New Study of the Walled Area, Papers of the British School at Rome LXVIII, 1-93.
  • Patterson, H., Di Gennaro, di Gennaro, F., di Giuseppe, H., Fontana, S., Gaffney, V., Harrison, A., Keay, S., Millett, M., Rendeli, M., Roberts, P., Stoddart, S. & Witcher, R. (2000), The Tiber Valley Project: the Tiber and Rome through two millennia, Antiquity 74, 395-403.
  • Keay, S. Millett, Johnson, P. Woodhouse, H. (2004), Lesser Urban Sites in the Tiber Valley: Baccanae, Forum Cassii and Castellum Amerinum, Papers of the British School at Rome LXXI, 69-99.
  • Keay, S., Millett, M. & Strutt, K. (2006), An Archaeological survey of Capena (La Civitucola, Provincia di Roma), Papers of the British School at Rome LXXII, 73-118.
  • Keay, S., Millett, M. & Strutt, K. (2007), An Archaeological survey of Vignale (Civita Castellana), Papers of the British School at Rome LXXIII, 39-121.

Review Article:

  • Keay, S. (2003), Recent Archaeological Work in Roman Iberia (1990-2002), Journal of Roman Studies XC (2003), 146-211.

Digital Resources:

1. Keay, S. & Williams, D. (edd.) (2006), Roman Amphorae a Digital Resource:

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/amphora_ahrb_2005/

2. Keay, S. & Earl G. The Portus Project:

www.portusproject.org

Teaching responsibilities for Professor Simon Keay
Module title Module code Discipline Role
Urbanism in the Roman Empire ARCH3028 Archaeology Course leader

Publications from e–Prints Soton

[file icon]Isaksen, Leif, Martinez, Kirk, Gibbins, Nicholas, Earl, Graeme and Keay, Simon (2010) Interoperate with whom? formality, archaeology and the semantic web. At Web Science Conference 2010, Raleigh, US 26 - 27 Apr 2010. , 1pp.
[file icon]Keay, Simon (2009) La riscoperta del Palazzo Imperiale di Porto. Archeo: Attualita del Passato, 298, 42-51.
[file icon]Keay, S., Earl, G., Kay, S., Hay, S.A., Ogden, J. and Strutt, K.D. (2009) The role of integrated geophysical survey in the assessment of archaeological landscapes: the case of Portus. [in special issue: Integrated remote sensing techniques for archaeological prospection] Archaeological Prospection, 16, (3), 154-166. (doi:10.1002/arp.358)
Keay, Simon, Earl, Graeme, Hay, Sophie, Kay, Stephen, Ogden, Jessica and Strutt, Kristian (2009) The role of integrated geophysical survey methods in the assessment of archaeological landscapes: the case of Portus. Archaeological Prospection, 16, (3), 154-166. (doi:10.1002/arp.358)
[file icon]Keay, Simon, Millett, M., Hay, S.A. and Sly, T. (2009) Urban Field Survey at Ocriculum. In, Patterson, H. and Coarelli , F. (eds.) Mercator Placidissimus. The Tiber Valley in Antiquity. New Research in the Upper and Middle Valley. Rome, IT, Quasar, 797-809.
[file icon]Keay, Simon, Earl, Graeme, Goiran, J.P., Bravard, J.P., Salomon, F, Kay, S, Ballantyne, R and Margritis, E (2009) La Delta du Tibre. Delta du Tibre. Campagne de carrotage 2008. Etude des canaux de Portus. Melanges de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome, 121, (1), 60-64.
[file icon]Keay, Simon., Millett, Martin. and Strutt, Kristian. (2008) Recent archaeological survey at Portus. In, Hohlfelder, Robert L. (ed.) The Maritime World of Ancient Rome. Michigan, US, University of Michigan, 97-104. (Proceedings of 'The Maritime World of Ancient Rome' Conference. 27-29 March 2003).
Abad Casal, L., Keay, S. and Ramallo Asensio, S. (eds.) (2006) Early Roman Towns in Hispania Tarraconensis, Rhode Island, USA, Journal of Roman Archaeology, 237pp. (Journal of Roman Archaeology; Supplementary series, 62)
Abad Casal, L., Keay, S. and Ramallo Asensio, S. (2006) Introduction. In, Abad Casal, L., Keay, S. and Ramallo Asensio, S. (eds.) Early Roman Towns in Hispania Tarraconensis. Rhode Island, USA, Journal of Roman archaeology, 9-17. (Journal of Roman archeaology; Supplementary series 62).
Keay, S. (2006) The early Roman towns of Tarraconensis: a discussion. In, Abad Casal, L., Keay, S. and Ramallo Asensio, S. (eds.) Early Roman Towns in Hispania Tarraconensis. Rhode Island, USA, Journal of Roman archaeology, 223-237. (Journal of Roman archaeology; Supplementary series 62).
Keay, Simon and Earl, Graeme (2006) Inscriptions and social networks in western Baetica. In, Sartori, Antonio and Valvo, Alfredo (eds.) Hiberia Italia, Italia-Hiberia. Hiberia-Italia, Italia-Hiberia: Convegno Internazionale di Epigrafia e Storia Antica Milan, Italy, Cisalpino, 269-290. (Acta et Studia 2).
Keay, S.J. and Earl, G.P.E. (2006) Structuring of the provincial landscape: the towns of central and western Baetica in their geographical context. In, Cruz Andreotti, Gonzalo, Le Roux, Patrick and Moret, Pierre (eds.) La invención de una geografía de la Península Ibérica: II La época imperal. La invención de una geografía de la Península Ibérica II. La época imperial. Madrid, Spain, Casa de Velazquez, 305-358.
Keay, Simon, Millett, Martin and Strutt, Kristian (2006) An archaeological survey of capena (La Civitucola, provincia di Roma). Papers of the British School at Rome, 75, 73-118.
Keay, Simon, Millett, Martin, Paroli, Lidia and Strutt, Kris (2005) Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome, London, UK, British School at Rome, 360pp. (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 15)
[file icon]Keay, Simon (2003) Recent archaeological work in Roman Iberia (1990-2002). Journal of Roman Studies, 93, 146-211.
Keay, S.J. and Terrenato, N. (eds.) (2001) Italy and the West: Comparative Issues in Romanization, Oxford, UK, Oxbow Books Limited, 233pp.
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