The Building of the Roman Aqueducts (Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication)

Harbound. Oversized octavo. xi, 440 p. illus., 59 plates [Washington. "It was to Appius Claudius Crassus, statesman, financier, and even poet, with his colleague in the censorship, thatRome owed its first aqueduct . While not a new invention, since the system of conveying water from distant sources by artificial channels had been known for centuries in other lands, it was for the Romans a new departure, or better, a new application of their earlier discovery of the use and construction of underground channels for sewers "-From Introduction During her time in Rome, Van Deman firmly established the criteria for dating ancient Roman Building construction which still remains astandard. She was not just the first woman Roman field archaeologist. In her investigations of the fundamental problems of the chronology of building materials and methods of construction, she laid the foundations for serious study of Roman architecture. When her observations were confirmed, she decided to apply her method of identification to other buildings and constructions. The results of these studies were published in several articles. After this, she turned to a study of the RomanAqueducts, which had never gotten any detailed attention. Her ensuing studies and writings specializing in this field are a model of investigation, record, and interpretation.