Reframing the Roman economy : new perspectives on habitual economic practices / Dimitri Van Limbergen, Adeline Hoffelinck, Devi Taelman, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Limbergen, Dimitri van, editor.

Hoffelinck, Adeline, editor.

Taelman, Devi, editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in ancient economies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Rome--Economic conditions.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

xxv, 406 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and archaeology, and as a consequence remain largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship. By reincorporating, for the first time, these long-obscured practices in mainstream scholarly discourses, this book offers a more complete and balanced view of an economic system that for too long has mostly been studied through its macro-economic and large-scale and thus archaeologically and textually omnipresent aspects. The topic is approached in five thematic sections, covering unusual actors and perspectives, unusual places of production, exigent landscapes of exploitation, less-visible products and artefacts, and divergent views on emblematic economic spheres. To this purpose, the book brings together a select group of leading scholars and promising early career researchers in archaeology and ancient economic history, well positioned to steer this ill-developed but fundamental field of the Roman economy in promising new directions.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Pathways to Reframing the Roman Economy: From Uniformity to Diversity? / Devi Taelman

Introduction

The Roman Economy Revisited

Primitive, Modern or Simply Roman?

Long-Distance vs. Regional vs. Local

From New Institutional Economics to Complexity Economics

Mechanisms and Concepts for Exploring `Diversity'

From Romanization to Glocalization

Ecological Economics & Resilience Theory

The Content of This Book

Conclusion: Toward a More Diverse Roman Economy

Bibliography

pt. I Unusual Actors, Attitudes and Perspectives

2. Textile Economy in the Veneto Region (North-Eastern Italy): A Textile Tools Oriented Spatial Approach / Maria Stella Busana

Introduction

-The Research on Textile Economy in Pre-Roman and Roman Veneto

The Dataset of the Pondera Project

A Spatial Approach

Textile Production

Land Management and Work Organization

Ideological Meanings

From Tools to Textile

Conclusions

3. Craftsmen and Shopkeepers Serving the Army: The Example of the Colony of Lugdunum (First Century AD) / Lucas Guillaud

The Shops/Workshops at `Clos Du Verbe Incarne': A Local Production of Offensive Weapons

Description and Functional Analysis

The Trilobate Arrowheads

Craftsmen in Lugdunum and the Production of Military Equipment

Archaeological Data

Epigraphical Data

The Production of Military Equipment in Civilian Contexts: Long-Distance Networks or Local Market?

Customers and Trade

The Actors of the Production Process

References

4. Children in the Roman Farming Economy: Evidence, Problems and Possibilities / Tamara Lewit

Roles of Children in Farming: Roman Textual, Visual and Archaeological Sources

Roles of Children in Farming: Ethnographic Data

Conclusion

pt. II Unconventional Loci of Production

5. Roman Metallurgic Production in the Veneto Region Between Urban and Rural Contexts / Leonardo Bernardi

Methodology

Metallurgy in Urban Contexts

Big Production Complexes

Urban Workshops

Metallurgy in Rural Contexts

Rural Workshops

Workshops in the villae-mansiones

A Diachronic Reconstruction of Metallurgical Production Between the Second Century BC and Sixth Century AD

6. Pigs in the City, Bees on the Roof: Intra-Urban Animal Husbandry and Butchery in Roman Spain / David Wallace-Hare

Case Study I Pigs (and Deer in the City)

Case Study II Bees on the Roof

7. Olive Oil Production and Economic Growth in the Roman Provinces: The Peculiar Case of Volubilis in Mauretania Tingitana / Leonardo Bigi

Olive Cultivation and Oil Production, a New Business in Roman Tingitana

Volume of Production and Distribution of Olive Oil

Investors and Investments in Olive Oil Production: A Quantitative Approach

Olive Oil and Local Wealth at Volubilis

Impact of the Olive Oil Business in the Volubilitanian Society

Comparing Olive Oil Industries and Their Contexts: Volubilis vs. Lepcis Magna

8. Roman Road Stations in Gallia Cisalpina: An Archaeological Approach to Elusive Central Places / Andrea Zemignani

Vehiculatio and Road Stations

Research Questions and Methodology

Case Studies on the via Aemilia

Other Case Studies from the Region

Final Remarks

pt. III Distinct Landscapes of Exploitation

9. Ephemeral Economies? Investigating Roman Wetland Exploitation in the Pontine Marshes (Lazio, Central Italy) / Tymon De Haas

The Pontine Marshes

Exploiting Wetland Resources: Archaeological and Ethno-Historical Examples

Agriculture

Pastoralism

Natural Resource Exploitation

Recent Field Surveys in the Pontine Marshes (2006

2020)

Exploiting the Natural Riches of the Pontine Marshes

Fishing

Breeding of Dormice

Pottery Production

pt. IV Less-Visible Products and Artefacts

10. Settling the Salinaria? Evaluating Site Location Patterns of Iron Age and Roman Salt Production in Northern Gaul / Wim De Clercq

Salt in Northern Gaul: A Long-Standing Research Tradition

The Political Development of Northern Gaul in the Roman Period

Salt Production Landscapes in Northern Gaul (ca. 800 BCE

400 CE)

The Development of Iron Age and Roman Coastal Salt Production

Early Iron Age Salt Production and Gift Exchange in the Netherlands

The Emerging of a Late Iron Age Salt "industry" in Northern France

An Unexpected Early Roman Decline in Salt Production

A Flavian Cluster of Production Sites in the Northern Menapian Coastal Area

A Thriving Late Second- to Early Third-Century Roman Salt "Industry"

11. Ollae, cistulae, cadi, utres, cupae, and Other Intangible Vessels in the Roman Economy: Some Case Studies / Simonetta Menchelli

Uvae Ollares and Other Kinds of Prized Fruits

The Daily Supply of Fresh Fruit and Legumes

Expensive and Fresh Fish

Wine, Olive Oil, and Fish Products

Concluding Remarks

pt. V Revising Traditional Narratives

12. Reconstructing Economic Rural Landscapes: The Case of Southern Etruria / Paul P. Pasieka

Proxy Evidence

Towards a Definition

Proxies and the Reconstruction of the Roman Economy

A Bundle of Proxies

The Reconstruction of Economic Rural Landscapes

Case Study: South Etruria

The Database and the Selection of Proxies

Rural Economic Landscapes in South Etruria

13. Ancient Indian Ocean Trade and the Roman Economy / Jeremy A. Simmons

Structural Considerations

The Roman State and Trade

Navigating Seas and Institutions

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783031062803

3031062809

OCLC:

1338687380

Publisher Number:

99993578244