Reframing the Roman Economy

lt;p>Dimitri Van Limbergen is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His main areas of study are Roman archaeology and economic history.

Adeline Hoffelinck is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. She researches the transformation of commercial infrastructure in Roman cities during their urbanization.

Devi Taelman is a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is interested in the study of the economy of ornamental stones used in antiquity, and in human-environment interactions in Roman Antiquity.

Chapter 1: Pathways to reframing the Roman economy: from uniformity to diversity?.- Part I Unusual actors, attitudes and perspectives.- Chapter 2: Textile economy in the Veneto Region (North-Eastern Italy): a textile tools oriented spatial approach.- Chapter 3: Craftsmen and shopkeepers serving the army: the example of the colony of Lugdunum (1st century AD).- Part II Unconventional loci of production.- Chapter 5: Roman metallurgic production in the Veneto region between urban and rural contexts.- Chapter 6: Pigs in the city, bees on the roof: intra-urban animal husbandry and butchery in Roman Spain.- Chapter 7: Olive Oil Production and Economic Growth in the Roman Provinces: the Peculiar Case of Volubilis in Mauretania Tingitana.- Chapter 8: Roman road stations in Gallia Cisalpina: an archaeological approach to elusive central places.- Chapter 9: Ephemeral Economies? Investigating Roman wetland exploitation in the Pontine marshes (Lazio, Central Italy).- Chapter 10: Settling the Salinaria? Evaluating site location patterns of Iron Age and Roman salt production in northern Gaul.- Chapter 11: Ollae, cistulae, cadi, utres, cupae and other intangible vessels in the Roman economy. Some case studies.- Part V Revising traditional narratives.- Chapter 12: Reconstructing economic rural landscapes. The case of southern Etruria.- Chapter 13: Ancient Indian Ocean Trade and the Roman Economy.