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  • Ground-penetrating radar survey at Falerii Novi: a new approach to the study of Roman cities

  • Lieven Verdonck, Alessandro Launaro, Frank Vermeulen, Martin Millett
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 94 / Issue 375 / June 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 June 2020, pp. 705-723
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    June 2020
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  • Our understanding of Roman urbanism relies on evidence from a few extensively investigated sites, such as Pompeii and Ostia, which are unrepresentative of the full variety of Roman towns. This article presents the results of the first high-resolution GPR survey of a complete Roman town—Falerii Novi, in Lazio, Italy. The authors review the methods deployed and provide an overview of the results, including discussion of a case-study area within the town. They demonstrate how this type of survey has the potential to revolutionise archaeological studies of urban sites, while also challenging current methods of analysing and publishing large-scale GPR datasets.

  • A view from the margin? Roman commonwares and patterns of distribution and consumption at Interamna Lirenas (Lazio)

  • Alessandro Launaro, Ninetta Leone
  • Journal:
    Journal of Roman Archaeology / Volume 31 / 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 October 2018, pp. 323-338
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    2018

  • There can hardly be any doubt that goods moved in large quantities and over great distances under the Roman empire. This awareness is borne out of a long tradition of archaeological research attesting to the widespread distribution of specific categories of material culture across the full expanse of the Mediterranean and beyond. This phenomenon has been interpreted as a more or less direct result of Rome's military expansion and the fundamental political unification which came with it, bringing about unprecedented conditions which favoured trade and exchange. Scholarship has often stressed the rôle played in this by ‘institutions’: the spread and adoption of a common set of laws, currency and units of measure, fostered by a relatively long period of internal peace and political stability, would have boosted the economic performance of the empire to levels that had not been witnessed before and would not be seen again for many centuries. Indeed, the notion of ‘efflorescence’ has sometimes been employed to describe and explain the kind of economic growth to which this process might have contributed.

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