The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

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“…Salvadei et al Adding to the above picture, stress due to manual labor was also detected in the three rural communities. It is well known that in antiquity most individuals belonged to the low social strata and depended for their subsistence upon manual labor, mostly agriculture (Scheidel et al, 2008). According to degenerative joint changes, the men and to a slightly lesser degree the women of all three communities, especially PNKV and LF, were involved in physically demanding tasks.…”

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A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece

Vergidou

Karamitrou-Mentessidi²,

Voutsaki

et al. 2022

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Roman Macedonia has been largely neglected by bioarcheological research. As a result, little is known about the imprint of living conditions of that time on the skeletons of its inhabitants, especially those of the lower classes. This paper presents the paleopathological study conducted on a Roman period (1st-4th c. CE) skeletal assemblage from Pontokomi-Vrysi, a site in the semi-mountainous region of Eordaea in Upper Macedonia (now in Kozani Prefecture, Greece). The aim is to investigate differences in the frequency of multiple paleopathological conditions in the buried population and to assess whether these are linked to sex-or age-related differences. The study examines cribra orbitalia (CO), porotic hyperostosis (PH), enamel hypoplasia (EH), osteoarthritis (OA), vertebral osteoarthritis (VOA), intervertebral disk disease (IDD), Schmorl's nodes (SNs), trauma (Tr), and lower limb periostitis/periostosis (PO).The results show higher frequencies of OA, IDD, PO, and Tr among males compared with those among females. These results suggest increased male physical hardship, pointing to a possible gender division of labor with the men of the community being mostly responsible for the physically demanding agricultural and animal husbandry activities. Additionally, comparisons of the CO, PH, and EH patterns in adults and nonadults support that, in general, the Pontokomi-Vrysi community was resilient enough to overcome stress. Overall, these findings make an important contribution to both the bioarcheology and social history of Roman Macedonia and stress the need for more studies that combine historical, archeological (cultural), and bioarcheological data.

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Section: Paleopathological Profilementioning

confidence: 99%

A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece

Vergidou

Karamitrou-Mentessidi²,

Voutsaki

et al. 2022

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…These studies allow us to revise basic concepts such as the relationship between the urban and rural world, as regards the urbanism development related to the implementation of an intensive agrarian production system and the different administrative status, sizes and ranges of ancient Roman cities (Morley 1996;for Hispania: Carreras 1996. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of territories have been favoured by a better knowledge of the urban perimeters and the settlement patterns of rural distribution; either from the contribution of urban archaeology, field-surveys, and cadastral studies (Lo Cascio 1994Scheidel 2002Scheidel , 2007aFentress 2009;Launaro 2011). Therefore, the most important interrelations to take into account for the analysis of demographic inference and population dynamics is the total size of the population, its distribution -urban or rural -and its internal configuration trends, such as gender, age, social status, etc., for every chronological period in the study area.…”

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The Economy of Laetanian Wine: A Conceptual Framework to Analyse an Intensive/Specialized Winegrowing Production System and Trade (First Century BC to Third Century AD)

Oliveras

Calvo

2019

Computational Social Sciences

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The Roman economy has been defined as an agrarian regime, where wheat was mainly cultivated combined with livestock farming and intensive cash crops such as wine and olive oil. Possibilities for economic growth in a winegrowing area such as the Laetanian region in Hispania Citerior depended upon changes in agrarian productivity but were subject to agro-ecological and agroeconomic endowments that could affect the settlement patterns, the fluctuations in population, the forms of production related to the vineyard crop capacities, the spread of new techniques of cultivation and processing and the adoption of new technological advances. The combination of these factors explains how comparative advantages arose from other winegrowing territories, achieved through intensification and specialization processes that generated an increase of winemaking production surplus capable of being traded in different overseas markets.

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“…I, 3, 2-6). Traditionally, the emergence of a market economy based on a long-distance commercial exchange of agricultural surpluses has been associated with the spread of this type of settlement (Giardina and Schiavone, 1981;Leveau, 2007). The use of advanced agricultural technologies, a storage capacity capable of supporting agricultural surpluses, and a wide variety of tableware and cooking utensils could defend this type of economy in Roman times (for an opposite example, vid.…”

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Peasant Settlement Patterns in Central Roman Iberia: A Network Analysis of Material Assemblages

Moreno Navarro

2023

cpag

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In recent decades, preventive excavations around the city of Madrid (Spain) have provided us with a unique opportunity to study rural non-elite peasant settlements in the Roman period. Based on the systematic analysis of the archaeological record of nine of these sites and the use of tools derived from network science, this work characterises the consumption patterns of these communities. By focusing on the differences between the patterns of each of the settlements, this work offers new data for interpreting the settlement patterns and how peasant communities exploited the territory in Roman times. The results obtained offer a series of differences between the consumption patterns that are compatible with a ‘distributed habitation’ type of landscape exploitation, in which households are distributed in the landscape in different settlements that exploit the territory more efficiently.

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The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Cited by 428 publications

References 947 publications

A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece

A bioarcheological contribution to the social history of Roman Macedonia: The Pontokomi‐Vrysi site in Kozani Prefecture, Greece

The Economy of Laetanian Wine: A Conceptual Framework to Analyse an Intensive/Specialized Winegrowing Production System and Trade (First Century BC to Third Century AD)

Peasant Settlement Patterns in Central Roman Iberia: A Network Analysis of Material Assemblages

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