The resilience of the Roman Empire : regional case studies on the relationship between population and food resources / edited by Dimitri Van Limbergen, Sadi Maréchal and Wim De Clercq.
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 res...
| Uniform Title: | BAR international series ;
3000. |
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
BAR Publishing,
2020.
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| Series: | BAR international series ;
3000. |
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| Physical Description: | v, 145 pages : illustrations (color and black and white), maps (color and black and white) ; 30 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: food for a growing Empire: reframing an old debate / Dimitri Van Limbergen, Sadi Maréchal and Wim De Clercq
- The expansion of agricultural land into marginal areas in northern Gaul / Pierre Ouzoulias
- Farming for a growing population: developments in agriculture in the provinces of Germania / Maaike Groot
- Viticulture and demography in the Laetanian region (Hispania Citerior Tarraconensis), 1st c. BC - 3rd c. AD / Antoni Martín i Oliveras, Víctor Revilla Calvo, César Carreras Monfort and José Remesal Rodríguez
- Growing grapes in populous landscapes: demography, food, land and vine agroforestry in central Adriatic Italy / Dimitri Van Limbergen
- Population decline and wine industry: societal transformation on Late Antique Delos (Greece) / Emlyn K. Dodd
- Cities and sustenance in Roman Asia Minor / Rinse Willet.