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The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014 : excavating the Roman rural poor
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ISBN: 9781949057072 1949057070 Year: 2020 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.) : University of Pennsylvania. Museum of archaeology and anthropology,

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"This book presents the results of the first systematic archaeological study of Roman peasants. It examines the spaces, architecture, diet, agriculture, market interactions and movement habitus of non-elite rural dwellers in a region of southern Tuscany, Italy, during the Roman period. The first half of the book presents the excavation data from eight non-elite rural sites including a farm, a peasant house, animal stall/work huts, a ceramics factory, field drains and a site of uncertain function, here framed as individual chapters complete with finds analysis. The second half of the book examines this data synthetically in thematic chapters addressing land use, agriculture, diet, markets and movement. The results suggest a different, more sophisticated Roman peasant than heretofore assumed. The data suggests that Roman peasants in the 1st c. BC/AD particularly built specialized sites distributed throughout the landscape to maximize use of diverse land parcels. Movement studies, based on finds from the sites themselves, describe a more mobile population that previously assumed, engaged in quotidian and long-distance movement patterns, data supported by the small but steady stream of imports and exports into and out of this seemingly liminal region. The book concludes by addressing the implications of this new data for major questions in Roman social and economic history"-- This has important implications for the interpretation of field survey data, estimate of rural demographics from that survey and assumption about the long-term changes to human settlement. It also points to an important moment of agricultural intensification in this period, a contention beginning to be supported by other studies. The project also identified sophisticated systems of land use, including crop rotation and an important investment in animal agriculture. The data similarly present the first systematic data from Roman Italy for rural consumption, tracking the fine wares produced at a production site to local sites nearby. This supports the largely theoretical new work problematizing the so-called consumer city model and suggests the potential importance of rural aggregate demand.

Hispania in late antiquity : current perspectives
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ISBN: 9789004143913 9004143912 9781429453097 1429453095 1280868112 9786610868117 9047407520 1433707209 9781433707209 9781280868115 6610868115 9789047407522 Year: 2005 Volume: 24 Publisher: Boston : Brill,

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This collection of essays on late Roman Hispania describes the relationships between the peninsula and the rest of the late antique world. Its contributors - archaeologists, historians, and historians of art - address both the historical evidence and the complex historiography of late antique Hispania.


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Private worship, public values, and religious change in late antiquity
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ISBN: 9781107400498 110740049X Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Worship --- History


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The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014 : excavating the Roman rural poor
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ISBN: 1949057089 Year: 2021 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,

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This book presents the results of the first systematic archaeological study of Roman peasants. It examines the spaces, architecture, diet, agriculture, market interactions, and movement habitus of non-elite rural dwellers in a region of southern Tuscany, Italy, during the Roman period. Volume 1 presents the excavation data from eight non-elite rural sites including a farm, a peasant house, animal stall/work huts, a ceramics factory, field drains, and a site of uncertain function, here framed as individual chapters complete with finds analysis. Volume 2 examines this data synthetically in thematic chapters addressing land use, agriculture, diet, markets, and movement.The results suggest a different, more sophisticated Roman peasant than heretofore assumed. The data suggests that Roman peasants particularly in the first century BC/AD built specialized sites distributed throughout the landscape to maximize use of diverse land parcels. This has important implications for the interpretation of field survey data, the estimate of rural demographics from that survey, and assumptions about the long-term changes to human settlement. It also points to an important moment of agricultural intensification in this period, a contention beginning to be supported by other studies. The project also identified sophisticated systems of land use, including crop rotation and an important investment in animal agriculture. This work presents the first systematic data from Roman Italy for rural consumption, tracking the fine wares made at a production site to local sites nearby. This supports the largely theoretical problematizing of the so-called consumer city model and suggests the potential importance of rural aggregate demand. Movement studies, based on finds from the sites themselves, describe a more mobile population than anticipated, engaged in "idian and long-distance movement patterns, supported by the small but steady stream of imports and exports into and out of this seemingly liminal region. The book concludes by addressing the implications of this new data for major questions in Roman social and economic history.

Between text and territory : survey and excavations in the Terra of San Vincenzo Al Volturno
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ISBN: 0904152480 Year: 2006 Publisher: London : British School at Rome,

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Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity
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ISBN: 9789004694835 9004694838 Year: 2024 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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"How did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work? It has long been assumed that elite thinkers disparaged physical work, and that working people rarely commented on their own labors. The papers in this volume challenge these notions by investigating philosophical, literary and working people's own ideas about what it meant to work. From Plato's terminology of labor to Roman prostitutes' self-proclaimed pride in their work, these chapters find ancient people assigning value to multiple different kinds of work, and many different concepts of labor"--

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