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The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage
This is the first archaeological study to approach the central problem of storage in the Roman world holistically, across contexts and datasets, of interest to students and scholars of Roman archaeology and history and to anthropologists keen to link the scales of farmer and state.
Religious Dynamics in Hispania
The Roman conquest of the Iberian peninsula, a land already inhabited by peoples who were characterized by cultural, ethnic, and social diversity, was one of the longest and most complex colonial processes to have occurred in the Roman world. Different political entities saw integration and interaction taking place at different speeds and via different mechanisms, and these differences had a profound impact on the development of religious dynamics and cultural change across the peninsula. This edited volume draws together contributions from a number of experts in the field in order to deepen our understanding of religious phenomena in Hispania - in particular cult, rituals, mechanisms, and s...
Finding the Limits of the Limes
This open access book demonstrates the application of simulation modelling and network analysis techniques in the field of Roman studies. It summarizes and discusses the results of a 5-year research project carried out by the editors that aimed to apply spatial dynamical modelling to reconstruct and understand the socio-economic development of the Dutch part of the Roman frontier (limes) zone, in particular the agrarian economy and the related development of settlement patterns and transport networks in the area. The project papers are accompanied by invited chapters presenting case studies and reflections from other parts of the Roman Empire focusing on the themes of subsistence economy, de...
Economic evidence and the changing nature of urban space in late antique Rome
Economic Evidence and Changing Nature of Urban Space in Late Antique Rome by Paul Johnson, is an innovative study that focuses upon the relationship between the importation of amphora-borne foodstuffs, their distribution and discard within the City and what this tells us about changing uses of urban space between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD. There have been a number of archaeological studies of late antique Rome in recent years, most notably Roma dall’antichità all’alto Medievo I and II, as well as a long tradition of studies that have focused upon the pattern of imports to the City. However the relationship between imported foodstuffs and the City as an urban unit has not been so well served.
Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology
A-Z organised Entries are written by an international team of 127 experts in the field Includes 29 b+w illustrations including 23 half-tones Contains cross references, suggestions for further reading and a comprehensive index
Complexity Economics
Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however, still have great difficulty talking with each other. There is no reliable method to convert ancient proxy-data into the economic indicators used in economic history. In turn, the shared cultural belief-systems underlying institutions and the symbolic ways in which these are reproduced remain invisible in the material record. This book explores ways to bring both disciplines closer together by building a theoretical and methodological framework to evaluate and integrate archaeological proxy-data in economic history research. Rather than the linear interpretations offered by neoclassical or neomalthusian models, we argue that complexity economics, based on system theory, offers a promising way forward.
Pliny's Roman Economy
Proxies for Economic Performance in the Roman Empire -- Excursus: Morgantina -- Pliny's Purpose, Audience, and Method -- Excursus: Pliny on Remedies for Rabies -- Parens Natura and Smithian Growth -- Innovation and Economic Growth in the Natural History -- Excursus: Aulus Gellius on Pliny and the Culture Of Authoritative Knowledge -- Pliny's Economic Observations and Reasoning -- "Utility" and the Afterlife of the Natural History -- Excursus: Fulling as an Illustration Comparing Pliny's Natural History And -- Chambers' Cyclopaedia -- Conclusion.
Producción cerámica y economía rural en el bajo Ebro en época romana
El objeto de este estudio es el análisis de las producciones cerámicas (ánforas, cerámicas comunes, recipientes de almacenaje y materiales constructivos) del Alfar de l'Aumedina (Tivissa, Tarragona), así como sus características y organización.
The Archaeology of Peasantry in Roman Spain
This volume aims to present an updated portrait of the Roman countryside in Roman Spain by the comparison of different theoretical orientations and methodological strategies including the discussion of textual and iconographic sources and the analysis of the faunal remains. The archaeology of rural areas of the Roman world has traditionally been focused on the study of villae, both as an architectural model of Roman otium and as the central core of an economic system based on the extensive agricultural exploitation of latifundia. The assimilation of most rural settlements in provincial areas of the Roman Empire with the villa model implies the acceptance of specific ideas, such as the genera...
In Africa et in Hispania
La presente obra es fruto de un proyecto de cooperación científica hispano-tunecino puesto en marcha en 2005 por la Université de Sousse (Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines) y la Universitat de Barcelona (CEIPAC) sobre la producción y el comercio de aceite africano en el Imperio romano..La producción y comercio de aceite africano han sido estudiadas por ambas partes de una forma interdisciplinar abarcando desde los estudios de carácter epigráfico hasta las excavaciones arqueológicas, haciendo a su vez especial atención en el análisis detallado de los mercados en los que estos productos fueron introducidos..Este libro representa una visión cruzada de África a Hispania y de Hispania a África fruto del intercambio de los datos obtenidos en una y otra parte del Mediterráneo, haciendo especial atención a la contribución económica de África en el conjunto del imperio romano.
