Authors:
Trentacoste, A, Lodwick, L
Abstract:
Supplemental tables to Trentacoste, A. and Lodwick, L. (2023) Towards an agroecology of the Roman expansion: Republican agriculture and animal husbandry in context. In S. Bernard, L. Mignone and D. Padilla Peralta (eds), Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy, 400-200 BCE. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. The above chapter argues for the importance of farming regimes as a force that shaped Roman social and economic history, and it provides a first step towards an agroecology of the Roman expansion. It presents a new (...)
Supplemental tables to Trentacoste, A. and Lodwick, L. (2023) Towards an agroecology of the Roman expansion: Republican agriculture and animal husbandry in context. In S. Bernard, L. Mignone and D. Padilla Peralta (eds), Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy, 400-200 BCE. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. The above chapter argues for the importance of farming regimes as a force that shaped Roman social and economic history, and it provides a first step towards an agroecology of the Roman expansion. It presents a new synthesis of archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological data from first-millennium BC Italy integrated with wider evidence for agricultural processing and rural production. Results indicate that production was motivated more by regional trajectories than by Roman political annexation, and that rural settlement changes did not have a major immediate impact on the bioarchaeological data considered. The paper discusses the socio-economic implications of these conclusions. Lastly, the chapter highlights key points of change alongside pathways for future research. The data analysed in the paper are contained in the attached supplemental tables, which summarise archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological data collected from published sources. Bibliographic details are included in the supplements. SuppTable01_Archbot: Supplemental Table 1, Archaeobotanical remains - presence/absence of archaeobotanical remains by site. Tenth century BC to first century AD. SuppTable02_Zooarch: Supplemental Table 2, Zooarchaeological remains - relative percentages of cattle, sheep/goat, and pigs by site. Quantified using NISP (Number of identified specimens). Middle Bronze Age to first century AD. This data is published open access to facilitate re-use. Please cite the chapter and the dataset if you use this data.
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