Modelling Agricultural Strategies in the Dutch Roman Limes via Agent-Based Modelling (ROMFARMS)

Joyce, Jamie

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04576-0_7

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“…Models were thus developed in the field of Roman studies such as MERCURY, dedicated to the study of the tableware trade in the eastern part of the Roman Empire [74][75][76]. We can also mention ROMFARMS, designed to determine whether the Netherlands had the capacity at the beginning of our era to locally produce enough food to feed the local populations and the Roman army installed on the Dutch Limes [77].…”

Section: Agent-based Modelling Archaeology and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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The impact of climate change on the agriculture and the economy of Southern Gaul: New perspectives of agent-based modelling

Bernigaud,

Bondeau,

Guiot

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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What impact did the Roman Climate Optimum (RCO) and the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) have on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire? Our article presents an agent-based modelling (ABM) approach developed to evaluate the impact of climate change on the profitability of vineyards, olive groves, and grain farms in Southern Gaul, which were the main source of wealth in the roman period. This ABM simulates an agroecosystem model which processes potential agricultural yield values from paleoclimatic data. The model calculates the revenues made by agricultural exploitations from the sale of crops whose annual volumes vary according to climate and market prices. The potential profits made by the different agricultural exploitations are calculated by deducting from the income the operating and transportation costs. We conclude that the warm and wet climate of the Roman period may have had an extremely beneficial effect on the profitability of wine and olive farms between the 2nd century BCE and the 3rd century CE, but a more modest effect on grain production. Subsequently, there is a significant decrease in the potential profitability of farms during the Late Antique Little Ice Age (4th-7th century CE). Comparing the results of our model with archaeological data enables us to discuss the impact of these climatic fluctuations on the agricultural and economic growth, and then their subsequent recession in Southern Gaul from the beginning to the end of antiquity.

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Section: Agent-based Modelling Archaeology and Climate Changementioning

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“…[87][88][89][90][91]), agricultural strategies (Intensive/Extensive Exploitation) of protohistoric and ancient societies (e.g. [68,77]). These approaches are strongly inspired by Site Catchment Analysis [92].…”

Section: Plos Onementioning

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The impact of climate change on the agriculture and the economy of Southern Gaul: New perspectives of agent-based modelling

Bernigaud,

Bondeau,

Guiot

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Exercises in ethically engaged work in biological anthropology

Zuckerman,

Marklein,

Austin

et al. 2024

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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An ethical paradigm shift currently taking place within biological anthropology is pushing scholars to envisage and develop paths toward more ethical futures. Drawing from case studies in our own teaching, research, and fieldwork experience, we reflect on the complex, diverse, and dynamic nature of ethical considerations in our field. We discuss the acquisition and institutional narrative of a human osteological teaching collection at the University of Louisville as an embodiment of structural apathy turned structural violence, and the need for professional guidance in the potential retirement of deceased individuals from our classrooms. In documented collections (i.e., the Robert J. Terry Collection), we share our process and scholarly reemphasis of the humanity of a deceased individual through contextualized analysis (i.e., osteobiography and archival history) and postmortem agentive acts. Lastly, we present an archeological site in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which poses ethical concerns as biocultural bioarcheologists and archeologists attempt to negotiate the possible wishes of the deceased with the cultural value of reconstructing the community's otherwise undocumented past, all amidst the immediate threat of anthropogenic climate change. We offer these exercises and discussion in ethically engaged projects transparently and with an overarching admission that none are models for replication. Rather, at various stages in our careers and engagement with ethics, we acknowledge that progress is worthwhile, albeit challenging, and that proceeding forward collectively as biological anthropologists should be deliberate, reflexive, and compassionate for deceased individuals and their descendant communities, as well as among and between colleagues.

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Repetition in abundant landscapes: dynamic approaches to Iron Age and Roman settlement in England

Aldred,

Cooper,

Evans

et al. 2023

Archaeological Journal

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Modelling Agricultural Strategies in the Dutch Roman Limes via Agent-Based Modelling (ROMFARMS)

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

The impact of climate change on the agriculture and the economy of Southern Gaul: New perspectives of agent-based modelling

The impact of climate change on the agriculture and the economy of Southern Gaul: New perspectives of agent-based modelling

Exercises in ethically engaged work in biological anthropology

Repetition in abundant landscapes: dynamic approaches to Iron Age and Roman settlement in England

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