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Titre(s) : The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014 [Texte imprimé] : excavating the Roman rural poor / edited by Kim Bowes
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
2020
Description matérielle : 2 volumes (xxvi, 753 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection : University museum monograph ; 154
Lien à la collection : University museum monograph
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
"This book presents the results of the first systematic archaeological study of Roman
peasants. It examines the spaces, architecture, diet, agriculture, market interactions
and movement habitus of non-elite rural dwellers in a region of southern Tuscany,
Italy, during the Roman period. The first half of the book presents the excavation
data from eight non-elite rural sites including a farm, a peasant house, animal stall/work
huts, a ceramics factory, field drains and a site of uncertain function, here framed
as individual chapters complete with finds analysis. The second half of the book examines
this data synthetically in thematic chapters addressing land use, agriculture, diet,
markets and movement. The results suggest a different, more sophisticated Roman peasant
than heretofore assumed. The data suggests that Roman peasants in the 1st c. BC/AD
particularly built specialized sites distributed throughout the landscape to maximize
use of diverse land parcels. This has important implications for the interpretation
of field survey data, estimate of rural demographics from that survey and assumption
about the long-term changes to human settlement. It also points to an important moment
of agricultural intensification in this period, a contention beginning to be supported
by other studies. The project also identified sophisticated systems of land use, including
crop rotation and an important investment in animal agriculture. The data similarly
present the first systematic data from Roman Italy for rural consumption, tracking
the fine wares produced at a production site to local sites nearby. This supports
the largely theoretical new work problematizing the so-called consumer city model
and suggests the potential importance of rural aggregate demand. Movement studies,
based on finds from the sites themselves, describe a more mobile population that previously
assumed, engaged in quotidian and long-distance movement patterns, data supported
by the small but steady stream of imports and exports into and out of this seemingly
liminal region. The book concludes by addressing the implications of this new data
for major questions in Roman social and economic history"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bowes, Kimberly Diane (1970-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Fouilles archéologiques -- Toscane (Italie)
Conditions rurales -- Toscane (Italie) -- Antiquité
Pauvres en milieu rural -- Conditions sociales -- Rome
Antiquités romaines -- Toscane (Italie)
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.963 (23e éd.) = Travailleurs agricoles (sociologie) ; 937 (23e éd.) = Histoire antique - Péninsule italienne - Des origines jusqu'à 0476 ap. J.-C.
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781949057072 (set). - ISBN 1949057070 (erroné). - ISBN 9781949057089 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468775575
Notice n° :
FRBNF46877557
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