Settlement, urbanization, and population / edited by Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowman, Alan K.

Wilson, Andrew, 1968-

Series:

Oxford studies on the Roman economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural population--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Rural population.

Urbanization--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Urbanization.

Land settlement patterns--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Land settlement patterns.

History.

Population.

Mediterranean Region--Population--History--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xx, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This innovative monograph/series reflects a vigorous revival of interest in the ancient economy, focusing on the Mediterranean world under Roman rule (c. 100 BC to AD 3 5.0). Carefully quantified archaeological and documentary data; will be integrated to help ancient historians, economic historians,-and archaeologists think about economic behaviour collectively rather titan from separate perspectives. The volumes will include a substantial comparative-element and thus" be of interest to historians of other periods and places.

This volume presents a collection of studies focusing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The analyses offered here highlight the issues of regional and temporal variation in Italy, Spain, Britain, Egypt, Crete, and Asia Minor from classical Greece to the early Byzantine period. The chapters fall into two main groups, the first dealing with the evidence for rural settlement, as revealed by archaeological field surveys, and the attendant methodological problems of extrapolating from that evidence-a view of population; and the second with city populations and the phenomenon of urbanization. They proceed to consider hierarchies of settlement in the characteristic classical pattern of city plus territory, and the way in which those entities are defined from the highest to the lowest level: the empire as city of Rome plus territory, then regional and local hierarchies, and, more precisely, the identity and the nature of the 'instruments' which enable them to function in economic cohesion. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Alan Bowman Bowman, Alan, Andrew Wilson Wilson, Andrew 1

I Survey Method and Data

2 Estimating Ancient Greek Populations: The Evidence of Field Survey / Simon Price Price, Simon 17

3 Missing Persons? Models of Mediterranean Regional Survey and Ancient Populations / Robert Witcher Witcher, Robert 36

4 Calculating Plough-Zone Demographics: Some Insights from Arid-Zone Surveys / David Mattingly Mattingly, David 76

5 Rural Settlement and Population Extrapolation: A Case Study from the Ager of Antium, Central Italy (350 BC-AD 400) / Peter Attema Attema, Peter, Tymon de Haas Haas, Tymon de 97

II Urbanization

6 Cities and Economic Development in the Roman Empire / Neville Morley Morley, Neville 143

7 City Sizes and Urbanization in the Roman Empire / Andrew Wilson Wilson, Andrew 161

8 Rank-Size Analysis and the Roman Cities of the Iberian Peninsula and Britain: Some Considerations / Annalisa Marzano Marzano, Annalisa 196

9 The Urban System of Roman Asia Minor and Wider Urban Connectivity / J. W. Hanson Hanson, J. W. 229

10 Towns and Territories in Roman Baetica / Simon Keay Keay, Simon, Graeme Earl Earl, Graeme 276

11 Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: Population and Settlement / Alan Bowman Bowman, Alan 317.

Notes:

"The chapters in this volume have their origin in a colloquium held in Oxford on 10-11 September 2007 as part of the research programme of the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OXREP)"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199602353

0199602352

OCLC:

751748778