Les recensements augustéens, aux origines de l’Empire

Teuff, Béatrice Le

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“…They consist of birth and death declarations included in about 300 acts related to provincial censuses, providing information on more than 1,100 people living in the first three centuries CE [16,17]. Compared to other evidence of Roman provincial censuses, recently studied by Béatrice Le Teuff [43], those from Egypt have an intrinsic demographic value as they are more appropriate for mortality and life expectancy assessments than other evidence of Roman provincial censuses [16,20]. In addition, Walter Scheidel considered papyri the cornerstone of mortality research [20].…”

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Does the longevity of the Sardinian population date back to Roman times? A comprehensive review of the available evidence

Floris

Dore

2021

PLoS ONE

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The discovery early in this century of the exceptional longevity of the Sardinian population has given new impetus to demographic studies of this phenomenon during the classical period. In the 1970s, it was hypothesised that the average mortality rate in Roman Sardinia was lower than in metropolitan Rome itself, postulating an ancient precedent for the remarkable longevity observable nowadays in the island’s population. In the present study, the available evidence was examined in order to test this hypothesis. Literary, juridical, epigraphic, papyrological, anthropological and archaeological sources regarding the population of the Roman Empire, including Sardinia, were retrieved by accessing Science Direct, PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar databases, as well as regional libraries, regardless of time limitation, and were independently reviewed by the authors. For Roman Sardinia, only funerary epitaphs were retrieved, in contrast with the numerous sources available for the whole Roman Empire. Inscriptions revealing the existence of three alleged nonagenarians, two centenarians, two ultracentenarians and one supercentenarian were found, corresponding to 2% in a total of 381 inscriptions. The majority were located in a highly Romanised rural area of central-western Sardinia. However, the ages reported in the epitaphs may be inaccurate because of the influence of confounders such as age rounding, approximations and/or amplifications, and are unrelated to the total number of inhabitants. In conclusion, the funerary evidence, the only available data from Roman Sardinia, is too weak to estimate the life expectancy of the local ancient population and cannot offer valuable arguments to support the hypothesis that exceptional longevity has been a Sardinian trait since Roman times.

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Section: Papyrological Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

Does the longevity of the Sardinian population date back to Roman times? A comprehensive review of the available evidence

Floris

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2021

PLoS ONE

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Current Trends in Roman Demography and Empirical Approaches to the Dynamics of the Limes Populations

Séguy

2019

Computational Social Sciences

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Based on the three principal and inevitably incomplete information sources on ancient historical demography, and taking into account the particularities of the populations living around the Limes Germanicus, a largely male population of soldiers and migrants, this chapter examines the factors that may have influenced their dynamics over the short, medium and long term. It also looks at the possible consequences of increased pressure on the environment, heightened risk of epidemics linked to the rise in population concentration, long-distance communication and adverse climate changes observed from the second half of the second century AD. The proposed empirical approach aims to shed light on the factors that shaped the dynamics of these very specific populations over the long term.

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Les recensements augustéens, aux origines de l’Empire

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Does the longevity of the Sardinian population date back to Roman times? A comprehensive review of the available evidence

Does the longevity of the Sardinian population date back to Roman times? A comprehensive review of the available evidence

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Current Trends in Roman Demography and Empirical Approaches to the Dynamics of the Limes Populations

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