In this volume, Philip Kay examines economic change in Rome and Italy between the
Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He argues that increased inflows of …

Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of
this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies …

The Roman Empire was very large: at the peak of its power, it extended 33 degrees of
latitude from north to south and 34 degrees of longitude from east to west. The first of these …

This paper reviews changes to lifecycle temporality in Southwest Asian plant and animal
domestication, exploring their relationship to long-term processes associated with ancient …

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GROWTH IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Page 3 Perspectives in Economic and Social History …

The increasingly common use of techniques of stable isotope analysis in bioarchaeology
has provided the means to explore dietary variability within regional and temporal …

This paper attempts a historiography of the study of the Roman economy over the last forty
years. It is argued that a new paradigm, used in the sense of a broad set of values …

Bioarchaeological research in the classical Greek world has to confront previously
excavated cemetery assemblages. Unlike prehistoric contexts in which multidisciplinary …

This study attempts to evaluate the social implications of economic changes that occurred in
Roman North Africa between the fall of Carthage in 146 BC and the arrival of the Vandals in …

This paper begins with a review of Roman grain market policies. It is argued that policies
such as forced sales and maximum prices made urban consumers hesitant to rely on the …