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Im Vergleich zu anderen vormodernen Volkswirtschaften zeichnet sich die römische Welt durch die Entwicklung eines hochspezialisierten und sehr produktiven Produktionssektor aus. Diese Entwicklung führte zur grossflächigen Ausbeutung von Rohstoffen. Sogar in einem Gebiet von der Grösse des römischen Reiches übten diese Aktivitäten großen Druck auf die Natur aus. Strategien der Ressourcennutzung und -erhaltung waren daher unerlässlich, um mit der mittel- oder langfristigen begrenzten Verfügbarkeit dieser Ressourcen erfolgreich umzugehen und die Nachhaltigkeit des römischen Nutzungsmodells zu sichern. Dieser Band befasst sich mit den verschiedenen Arten der Ausbeutung und Bewirtschaftung natürlicher Ressourcen in der römischen Welt. Er konzentriert sich darauf, ob, wann, wo und wie die Römer ein harmonisches Gleichgewicht zwischen der begrenzten Verfügbarkeit einer bestimmten Ressource und dem Gesetz von Angebot und Nachfrage anstrebten. Die Fallstudien in diesem Band decken verschiedene Schlüsselbereiche der weströmischen Welt ab - von Italien und der Insel Elba, über das Küstenland Kroatien bis hin zu Zentral-Ost-Gallien und dem pannonischen Limes - und diskutieren insbesondere die Fischindustrie, die Eisenverhüttung, die Abholzung und Waldbewirtschaftung, den Steinhandel und die Ausbeutung thermomineralischer Ressourcen.

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"Bringing together a wide array of modern scientific techniques and interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides an accessible guide to the methods that form the current bedrock of research into Roman, and more broadly ancient, wine. Chapters are arranged into thematic sections, covering biomolecular archaeology and chemical analysis, archaeobotany and palynology, vineyard and landscape archaeology and computational and experimental archaeology. While most of the content is of direct relevance to the Roman Mediterranean, the assortment of detailed case studies, methodological outlines and broader 'state of the field' reflections is of equal use to researchers working across disparate disciplines, geographies and chronologies"--

Wine and wine making --- Viticulture --- Archaeology

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The Resilience of the Roman Empire' discusses the relationship between population and regional development in the Roman world from the perspective of archaeology. By adapting a comparative approach, the focus of the volume lies on exploring the various ways in which regional communities actively responded to population growth - or decline for that matter - in order to keep going on the land available to them. The theoretical framework - or at least the starting point - for the case studies is the agricultural intensification models developed by Thomas Malthus and Ester Boserup. In order to advance the debate on the validity of these models for identifying the societal and economic pathways of the Roman world, the contributors incorporate the concepts of resilience and diversity into their approach, and shift attention from the longue-duree to how people managed to sustain themselves over shorter periods of time. The aim of the volume is not to discard the theories of Malthus and Boserup, but rather to deconstruct overly strict Malthusian or Boserupian scenarios, and as such introduce novel and more layered ways of thinking by exploring resilience and variability in human responses to population growth/decline in the Roman world.

Agriculture --- Economic aspects --- Rome --- Population. --- Rural development --- Food supply --- Economic conditions --- History --- Population --- Rome - History - Empire, 284-476 --- Rome - Population

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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. Dimitri Van Limbergen is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His main areas of study are Roman archaeology and economic history. Adeline Hoffelinck is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. She researches the transformation of commercial infrastructure in Roman cities during their urbanization. Devi Taelman is a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is interested in the study of the economy of ornamental stones used in antiquity, and in human-environment interactions in Roman Antiquity.

Archeology --- World history --- Ancient history --- History of Europe --- geschiedenis --- economische geschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- archeologie --- Europe

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