New Plant Foods in Roman Britain — Dispersal and Social Access

Veen, Marijke van der; Livarda, Alexandra; Hill, Alistair

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“…Their archaeological rarity suggests that they were highly-prized specimens valued for social display with limited significance for the wider ecology of Roman Britain. Recent syntheses make clear that species such as almond (Prunus dulcis), fig and peach were largely restricted to high-status sites such as towns, forts and villas which are all overrepresented in the archaeological record compared with the villages and farms where the majority lived (Hingley 2000, table 10.3;van der Veen 2008, pp.97-8;van der Veen et al 2008). As with the use of archaeological evidence in support of the concept of Romanisation more generally, the selective use of the archaeobotanical evidence can mispresent elite lifestyles as typical of the majority.…”

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On Rome's ecological contribution to British flora and fauna: landscape, legacy and identity

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On Rome's ecological contribution to British flora and fauna: landscape, legacy and identity

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“…In addition, for the purposes of this research absolute quantification was not necessary, as the mere presence of a taxon at a site would dictate its transit by trade routes. Other contextual data recorded included the preservation mode/s of each species, the security of its identification, and the part of the plant recovered (for a detailed discussion on the potential biases of the dataset see Van der Veen et al 2008;Livarda, 2011). The distribution of sites with exotics per period showed a positive correspondence with that of habitation nuclei as recorded in the UK's national heritage repositories except for the area of Wales, where fewer archaeobotanical reports were available (see also Van der Veen et al, 2007).…”

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“…Workflow developed for the analysis of the distribution of exotics using the Romano-British transport system. (Tomlinson and Hall, 1996) and the environmental archaeology bibliography (for details on the methodology see Livarda, 2008Livarda, , 2011Livarda, , 2013Van der Veen et al 2008). The data were divided into three phases, early (ER: 1st century AD including up to early 2nd century AD), middle (MR: 2nd and 3rd centuries AD) and late (LR: 4th century AD including those starting in the 3rd century AD) Roman, and were plotted accordingly into the GIS.…”

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“…Systematic collection of plant remains in excavations all over Britain has led to a significant body of such data for the Roman period (Van der Veen et al 2007), which can now provide primary evidence for the investigation of the exotics' distribution that contributed to the emergence of new foodways (e.g. Van der Veen et al 2008;Livarda and Van der Veen, 2008;Livarda, 2011).A combination of density interpolation surfaces and social and spatial network analyses to investigate the trade and distribution of exotics has been already employed for Roman London (Livarda and Orengo, 2015), which was then contextualised within the broader commerce of exotics in Britannia. This study demonstrated the need to treat London as a node of the greater British transport network and, as a consequence, a preliminary small-scale version of the network analysis was devised.…”

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New Plant Foods in Roman Britain — Dispersal and Social Access

Cited by 118 publications

References 13 publications

On Rome's ecological contribution to British flora and fauna: landscape, legacy and identity

On Rome's ecological contribution to British flora and fauna: landscape, legacy and identity

The seeds of commerce: A network analysis-based approach to the Romano-British transport system

Botany and empire

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