Objectscapes, cityscapes, and colonial encounters

By the early first century AD, objectscapes across northwest Europe had been revolutionised by the spread of dramatically new standardised things. The proliferation of these new objects was a consequence of surges in inter-regional connectivity linked to multiple phenomena: Roman conquest, military presence, the development of provincial infrastructure, and the expansion of clientship and kinship networks that connected the late Iron Age societies of northern Gaul and beyond. One expected effect of such increases in connectivity might be to see new standardised objects such as amphorae and Italian-style terra sigillata achieve wide circulation in northwest Europe. But this is not