Preliminary Programme

Tue 13 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 14 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 15 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 16 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Go back

Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
O-4 ANT03 Quantifying the Roman Economy
Auditorium D3, Pauli
Network: Antiquity Chair: Alan Bowman
Organizers: - Discussant: Alan Bowman
Hannah Friedman : Atmospheric pollution proxies for Roman metal production
'abstract to follow '

Dario Nappo : The scale of Roman wine exports to Arabia and India
This paper aims to assess the scale of Roman wine exports to Eastern regions such as Arabia and India. Wine was the most important commodity exported by Romans and used (along with coins) to buy valuable items such as spices, pearls and silk. While the importance of silver and gold ... (Show more)
This paper aims to assess the scale of Roman wine exports to Eastern regions such as Arabia and India. Wine was the most important commodity exported by Romans and used (along with coins) to buy valuable items such as spices, pearls and silk. While the importance of silver and gold coins in such a trade has been deeply investigated by scholars, the role of payments in kind has been largely underestimated. The combined analysis of different kinds of documentary evidence available to us can make it possible to have a better idea of the functioning of the international trade with Arabia and India. (Show less)

Ben Russell : Trends in the production and distribution of sculpted stone
Abstract to follow

Andrew Wilson : Quantifying growth and contraction in the Roman economy
This paper discusses some of the problems and possible methods for studying the Roman economy through a series of proxy indicators for economic performance derived from archaeological data and inscription, and uses these to test whether the indications of growth that they provide suggest a one-off stimulus caused by the ... (Show more)
This paper discusses some of the problems and possible methods for studying the Roman economy through a series of proxy indicators for economic performance derived from archaeological data and inscription, and uses these to test whether the indications of growth that they provide suggest a one-off stimulus caused by the integration of the Mediterranean world under Rome but was not sustained, or a more sustained process over a couple of centuries that was killed off by one or more external shocks. (Show less)



Theme by Danetsoft and Danang Probo Sayekti inspired by Maksimer