Maritime Networks and Economic Regionalism in the Roman Eastern Mediterranean

Leidwanger, Justin

doi:10.4000/nda.2343

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“…Although Indruszewski and Barton (2007) used GRASS's wildfire spread routine and ArcView to make anisotropici.e. the cost is dependent on the direction of travel -seafaring models of the Viking Age Baltic sea, Leidwanger (2013Leidwanger ( , 2014see also 2020: 139-151) was the first to introduce the application of ArcGIS's Path Distance tool and its horizontal factor (HF) parameter for this task. His models concentrate on the ancient seafaring in the eastern Mediterranean and are based on modern yearly mean wind direction and speed.…”

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Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data

Perttola

2021

J Archaeol Method Theory

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During the age of sail-powered ships, the maritime trade networks of Southeast Asia were highly cyclical in nature due to the biannually switching wind directions of the East Asian Monsoon. The Selden Map of China provides us with a glimpse of these connections in the early seventeenth century, and it is drawn in a unique way that allows the sailing durations between ports to be measured. In this paper, a novel method of simulating directed sail-powered voyages is developed. The method utilizes ArcGIS Pro’s functionality through Python macros, and unlike the previous least-cost path (LCP) sailing models, it is based on sequential LCP analysis using dynamic real-time series wind data. The optimized routes and sailing durations generated by the macros are then compared against the Selden map. In general, the model performs reasonably well in favourable winds, but is unable to simulate tacking properly in adverse conditions. The results allow the visualization of wind patterns in terms of time spent at sea and demonstrate the inherent natural rhythm of maritime movement and trade in the South China Sea region. The macros are freely available and can be modified to simulate directed sailing in other time periods, localities, and environmental settings.

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Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data

Perttola

2021

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…The Roman period is already benefiting from the application of systems-thinking methodologies in discussion around transport and trade (e.g. de Soto 2019;Leidwanger 2014;Livarda and Orengo 2015), religion (e.g. Collar 2013; Woolf 2016) and cities and towns (e.g.…”

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Food systems in archaeology. Examining production and consumption in the past

Reed

2021

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Research on food has a long history in archaeology and anthropology, with many agreeing that we need to examine the food of complex societies in a more holistic way, through the various stages from production to disposal. Typically, this has occurred through the application of the concept of foodways, although this has a range of definitions and is generally only used in historical archaeological and anthropological research. By building on this important area of research this paper will explore the usefulness of applying a food-systems framework to understanding food in the past. Systems research is already well established in archaeology, sharing elements with approaches such as social-network analysis and complexity science. These theories have been used to address a broad array of questions about the relationships between actors, activities and outcomes for individuals and larger groups at a range of social scales. Thus food systems can help us to explore greater connections between food, human society and the environment via a combination of different archaeological evidence and comparative data.

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“…A λιμήν is difficult to define, but it likely utilized natural bays, or in the case of Salamis, offshore reefs, enhanced by breakwaters [52] (p. 813). Based on the evidence from Mediterranean shipwrecks, large harbors would have been unnecessary, even at larger cities, as many ships involved in coastal trade seem to have been well under 100 tons [53] (p. 560), and so a great deal of product unloading could have been done with small skiffs or by simply wading to shore [53] (p. 561), [54] (pp. [33][34].…”

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“…Here, surface survey has revealed that table ware pottery, like Eastern Sigillata A, likely from Syria, was more common than Cypriot Sigillata (from either western Cyprus or Cilicia), even as the main Early Roman forms of imported wine and olive oil amphorae arrived from western sources in the Aegean [72] (p. 290). Although it is not impossible that these wares arrived at Pyla directly from their sources, the nature of the assemblage hints at more complex, and less centralized, trading mechanisms (such as those gleaned from the Fig Tree Bay ship's cargo [56]), with imported products being unloaded at larger ports like Kition and Salamis and then being distributed via different, likely short-haul, regional modes (either by land or sea) to smaller sites [72] (p. 291), [54] (pp. [33][34].…”

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Transforming Culture on an Insula Portunalis: Port Cities as Central Places in Early Roman Cyprus

Gordon

2018

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During the Early Roman period in the Mediterranean (ca. 30 BC–330 AD), the key central places that distinguished socio-political landscapes were towns. These urban centers functioned as economic and administrative focal points that were controlled by local elites who oversaw wealth redistribution and maintained a dialectical relationship with Rome that mutually benefitted both parties. Yet, beyond providing such rudimentary observations, central place theory has recently been revised to examine how local factors, such as a place’s long-term geography and history, intersect with globalizing ones to transform settlement hierarchies as well as economic, political, and cultural landscapes. This article’s goal is to explore such intersections through a study of how port towns functioned as central places that connected globalized imperial networks to localized provincial ones within island contexts. It examines a range of material culture including, ceramics, architecture, prestige goods, and coinage from ports in Early Roman Cyprus in order to investigate how the island’s integration into Roman networks created central places that altered existing settlement types, hierarchies, and thus, local identities. Overall, this study shows how the reanalysis of central places within their unique geohistorical contexts can shed new light on both regional and state-level processes of cultural change.

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Maritime Networks and Economic Regionalism in the Roman Eastern Mediterranean

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data

Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data

Food systems in archaeology. Examining production and consumption in the past

Transforming Culture on an Insula Portunalis: Port Cities as Central Places in Early Roman Cyprus

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