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A collection of essays presenting new analyses of data and evidence for population and settlement patterns, particularly urbanization, in the Mediterranean world from 100 BC to AD 350.
List of contents
- 1: A. Bowman and A. Wilson: Introduction
- Survey Method and Data
- 2: S. Price: Estimating Ancient Greek Populations: The Evidence of Field Survey
- 3: R. Witcher: Missing Persons? Models of Mediterranean Regional Survey and Ancient Populations
- 4: D. Mattingly: Calculating Plough-zone Demographics: Some Insights from Arid-Zone Surveys
- 5: P. Attema and T. de Haas: Rural Settlement and Population Extrapolation: A Case Study from the Ager of Antium, Central Italy (350 BC- AD 400)
- Urbanization
- 6: N. Morley: Cities and Economic Development in the Roman Empire
- 7: A. Wilson: City Sizes and Urbanization in the Roman Empire
- 8: A. Marzano: Rank-size Analysis and the Roman Cities of the Iberian Peninsula and Britain: Some Considerations
- 9: J. W. Hanson: The Urban System of Roman Asia Minor and Wider Urban Connectivity
- 10: S. Keay and G. Earl: Towns and Territories in Roman Baetica
- 11: A. Bowman: Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: Population and Settlement
- Index
About the author
Alan Bowman is former Camden Professor of Ancient History, Director of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, and Co-Director of The Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP). His research interests focus on papyrology, the Vindolanda Writing-tablets, the social and economic history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, and the Roman Empire.
Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies. He is also co-director of the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP). He has directed excavations in Italy, Tunisia, and Libya, and is the author of numerous articles on ancient water supply, ancient technology, economy, and trade.
Summary
A collection of essays presenting new analyses of data and evidence for population and settlement patterns, particularly urbanization, in the Mediterranean world from 100 BC to AD 350.
Additional text
'This book emerges from one of the many fruitful colloquiums organised as part of the Oxford Roman Economy Project . . . this volume ultimately achieves what it intends; that is, to assess and analyse quantifiable data on the Roman economy as well as to provide interpretations for how these data fit within wider categories of economic behaviour, institutions, and processes.'
