ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

processes as well as the conflicts of practice and thought that change structures." 92Potentially, the material and conceptual processes are equal and reciprocal between thenodes, 93 although the specific relationships require testing at the micro-level (site specificstudies). Furthermore, it is important to realize that the model distinguishes between thematerial and conceptual realms, when in reality they may overlap in complex ways. Theaforementioned models, from the triadic comparison among Rome, the colonies, and thelocal population to the processes that link natives, non-natives, and the landscape incolonial landscape transformation, suggest that the analysis of Roman colonialinteractions might benefit from a new model which incorporates the human elements ofcolonization with the material and conceptual landscape which they colonize. Thisincludes privileging the role of the commissioners in the initial planning and shaping ofthe colonial landscape. These interactions are illustrated by Figure 1.3, the colonialagency chart, which depicts the (interrelationships between the people involved inRoman colonization and the landscape. It inserts 'landscape' into the human colonialtriangle (metropolis, colonists, locals), while at the same time expanding the humanelements in Sluyter's depiction of the material and conceptual processes of transformingthe colonial landscape, with specific reference to the middle Republic.92 Sluyter (2002), p. 23.93 See Sluyter (2002), p. 23 fig. 1.7, which depicts a generalized colonial triangle representing the materialand conceptual processes relating the human elements of colonization with the landscape.25