Local Economies?: Production and Exchange of Inland Regions in Late Antiquity: 10 (Late Antique Archaeology)

Lavan, Luke

ISBN 10: 900427703X / ISBN 13: 9789004277038

Published by Brill, 2015

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• Title: Local Economies?: Production and Exchange of Inland Regions in Late Antiquity: 10 (Late Antique Archaeology)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900427703X
• ISBN 13: 9789004277038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

The Roman economy was operated significantly above subsistence level, with production being stimulated by both taxation and trade. Some regions became wealthy on the basis of exporting low-value agricultural products across the Mediterranean. In contrast, it has usually been assumed that the high costs of land transport kept inland regions relatively poor. This volume challenges these assumptions by presenting new research on production and exchange within inland regions. The papers, supported by detailed bibliographic essays, range from Britain to Jordan. They reveal robust agricultural economies in many interior regions. Here, some wealth did come from high value products, which could defy transport costs. However, ceramics also indicate local exchange systems, capable of generating wealth without being integrated into inter-regional trading networks. The role of the State in generating production and exchange is visible, but often co-existed with local market systems.
Contributors are Alyssa A. Bandow, Fanny Bessard, Michel Bonifay, Kim Bowes, Stefano Costa, Jeremy Evans, Elizabeth Fentress, Piroska Hárshegyi, Adam Izdebski, Luke Lavan, Tamara Lewit, Phil Mills, Katalin Ottományi, Peter Sarris, Emanuele Vaccaro, Agnčs Vokaer, Mark Whittow and Andrea Zerbini.

About the Author

Luke Lavan is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he co-ordinates the Centre for Late Antique Archaeology. His doctorate (2001) considered Provincial Capitals in Late Antiquity. He is series editor of Late Antique Archaeology and directed the Kent section of Kent-Berlin Late Antique Ostia Project 2008-2012.