Finding the limits of the limes : modelling demography, economy and transport on the edge of the Roman empire /: modelling demography, economy and transport on the edge of the Roman empire. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Philip Verhagen, Jamie Joyce, Mark R. Groenhuijzen, editors.
• Editors: Verhagen, Philip, 1966-; Joyce, Jamie; Groenhuijzen, Mark R
• Contents: Chapter1. Finding the Limits of the Limes: Setting the Scene.- Part1. DEMOGRAPHY AND SETTLEMENT.- Chapter2. Current trends in Roman demography and empirical approaches to the dynamics of the limes populations.- Chapter3. Modelling the dynamics of demography in the Dutch Roman limes zone: a revised model.- Chapter4. Broad and coarse: modelling demography, subsistence, and transportation in Roman England.- Chapter5. A different vision of ancient settlement dynamics: creation and application of a model of evolution of Roman settlement of the Plateau Lorrain (France).- Part2. ECONOMY.- Chapter6. The economic archaeology of Roman economic performance.- Chapter7. Modelling agricultural strategies in the Dutch Roman limes zone via agent-based modelling (ROMFARMS).- Chapter8. The economy of Laetanian wine. A conceptual framework for analyse an intensive/specialized winegrowing production system and trade (1st century BCE - 3rd century CE).- Chapter9. The role of forts in the local market system in the Lower Rhine: toward a method of multiple hypothesis testing through comparative modelling.- Chapter10. A multi-scalar approach to long-term dynamics, spatial relations and economic networks of Roman secondary settlements in Italy and the Ombrone Valley system (southern Tuscany): towards a model?.- Part3. TRANSPORT AND MOVEMENT.- Chapter11. Modelling of routes and movement networks in archaeology: an overview of current approaches.- Chapter12. Palaeogeographic analysis approaches to transport and settlement in the Dutch part of the Roman limes.- Chapter13. Network analysis to model and analyse Roman transport and mobility.- Chapter14. Footprints and cartwheels on a pixel road: on the applicability of GIS for the modelling of ancient (Roman) routes.- Chapter15. Rethinking approaches for the study of urban movement at Ostia.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 337 pages)
• Subjects: 936.4; Borderlands -- Rome -- Mathematical models; Borderlands -- Netherlands -- History -- To 1500; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030045760; 3030045765
• Related ISBNs: 3030045757; 9783030045753
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 19, 2019).
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