The Roman Transport Network: A Precedent for the Integration of the European Mobility

Monfort, César Carreras; Soto, Pau de

doi:10.1080/01615440.2013.803403

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“…SNA has been used in archaeology mainly to study the structure of relationships (represented as links) between individual actors (or nodes) by allowing the generation of hypotheses about sites' hierarchy or the expansion of human groups or ideas (for various examples covering diverse time periods, cultures and types of applications see Knappett, 2013). These SNA applications, however, have not been exempt from criticism due to the subjective nature of the links (or relationships) between the different nodes of the network, often based on shared items of material culture, or the reduced availability of evidence linking them (see Sindbaek, 2013 for the application of SNA to archaeological distributions, Isaksen, 2008 andGraham, 2006 on ancient itineraries, Dicks, 1972 andCarreras andde Soto, 2013 on Roman road networks). In this study the inherent subjectivity in the development of the network is partially overcome by the use of a spatial network that reflects transport routes on physical space.…”

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“…Despite its potential, SpNA has been infrequently used in archaeology (Wheatley and Gillings, 2002: 122) presumably due to the lack of complete enough data on ancient transport systems (but see Scheidel et al 2012;Carreras and de Soto, 2013;De Soto, 2010a).…”

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“…Notably Carreras (1994) updated the values pro-vided by Duncan Jones (1982) and Deman (1987), employing the later version of Diocletian's price Edict discovered at Aphrodisias (Rouech.e, 1989) which were used also in other recent works (e.g. De Soto, 2010a, Carreras andde Soto, 2013). However, these values are conceived for the cost of movement of bulk cargo and would not be adequately applied to model the movement of small quantities of merchandise.…”

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

Orengo

Livarda

2016

Journal of Archaeological Science

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(2016) The seeds of commerce: a network analysis-based approach to the Romano-British transport system. Journal of Archaeological Science, Access from the University of Nottingham repository: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31162/1/The%20seeds%20of%20commerce.%20A %20network%20analysis-based%20approach%20to%20the%20Romano-British %20transport%20system_post-print.pdf Copyright and reuse:The Nottingham ePrints service makes this work by researchers of the University of Nottingham available open access under the following conditions. This article is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives licence and may be reused according to the conditions of the licence. For more details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. Communication routes are an important subject in the study of the human past. They allowed in-teractions between communities and the dispersal of goods and ideas. Their study, therefore, can shed light on the way in which communities inhabited the landscape, related to each other and were affected by macro-regional trends. Many methods, such as archaeomorphological analysis and Least Cost Route modelling (LCR), have been devised and are routinely employed for the reconstruction of ancient routes. Their analysis in terms of communication, trade or historical significance, however, has usually been left unexplored. This is probably due to the connected nature of routes, which form communication networks: these are shaped by interconnected nodes and extend over territories surpassing the regional scale in such a way that even a change in a single node or link can affect the whole network. Consequently, the partial reconstruction of communication networks provided by the aforementioned methods does not usually allow a holistic analysis. In this paper the relatively well understood British Roman road network is employed to explore the analytical possibilities offered by a combination of Social Network Analysis, Spatial Network Analysis and spatial interpolation-based distribution analysis. The British road network has been reconstructed using published data but also a variation of LCR in which cost surfaces are derived from cultural data obtained from large-scale cultural inventories. The distribution of introduced food plants during the Roman period serve as an excellent proxy for the study of trade along the network and its historical consequences. This multi-period archaeobotanical dataset has some evident advantages to other types of material remains: archaeobotanical remains are not reused as, for example, amphorae and, accordingly, they reflect a distribution pattern based on consumption or commerce. Some of them are impor...

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Section: Social and Spatial Network Analysismentioning

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Section: Social and Spatial Network Analysismentioning

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

Orengo

Livarda

2016

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“…Isochronic distances combined with travel costs, both monetary and physical, have also been employed to create relatively detailed accessibility and cost maps for the Italian peninsula (see Carreras and De Soto 2013;Fig. 4).…”

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“…Figure 4: Accessibility (top) and Cost (bottom) maps for Roman Italy in the Imperial period. (Carreras and De Soto 2013) 3), and it seems likely that ancient Rome would have featured a similar system of functional zones and secondary settlements, each serving different purposes and conditioned largely by their distance from the city centre. As stated in Ravetz et al (2013: 21) 'peri-urban change is a direct result of urban expansion'.…”

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Re-defining the Roman ‘<i>suburbium</i>’ from Republic to Empire: A Theoretical Approach

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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire

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The Roman Transport Network: A Precedent for the Integration of the European Mobility

Cited by 53 publications

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

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

Re-defining the Roman ‘<i>suburbium</i>’ from Republic to Empire: A Theoretical Approach

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