A5090478747- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
- Historical and Architectural Studies
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Asian Studies and History
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Global Political and Social Dynamics
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Construction Engineering and Safety
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Hispanic-African Historical Relations
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
University of Oxford
2023-2025
University of Reading
2018-2020
University of Colorado System
2017
University of Colorado Boulder
2017
Keene State College
2016
Defining wealth broadly to include in people, relational connections, and material possessions, we examine the prehistory of inequality at level residential units using consistent proxy Gini coefficients calculated across areas contemporaneous units. In a sample >1,100 sites > 47,000 spanning >10,000 y, persistent typically lags onset plant cultivation by more than millennium. It accompanies landscape modifications subsistence practices which land (rather labor) limits production,...
The last few years have seen a growing interest in the urbanism of Greek and Roman world. This has led to consensus sorts about some its vital statistics, such as sizes populations most important settlements size overall urban population, urbanization rate (i.e., share individuals that lived urban, rather than rural, contexts), total population. A good example comes from W. Scheidel Cambridge economic history Greco-Roman world . According him, it is likely c. 1.5 million people 5 largest...
One of the hallmarks human agglomeration is an increase in division labour, but exact nature this relationship has been debated among anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians archaeologists. Over last decade, researchers investigating contemporary urban systems have suggested a novel explanation for links between numbers inhabitants settlements many their most important characteristics, which grounded view as social networks embedded built environments. remarkable aspects...
This report describes the excavations of a 4ha multi-period site situated in parish Heslerton, North Yorkshire, on southern edge Vale Pickering. The came to light 1977 and rescue excavation project, sponsored by Department Environment through Yorkshire County Council, continued seasonal basis from 1978 until December 1982.Occupation at began during late Mesolithic with flint knapping area, which was also used Neolithic early Bronze Age. During Late series shallow gullies may represent first...
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and formal modelling tools designed study complex systems. A system consists of separate entities interacting following a set (often simple) rules that collectively give rise unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than produced them. In recent years number case studies have shown such approaches great potential for furthering our understanding past phenomena explored in Roman Studies. We argue complexity...
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Rescue excavation between 1988 and 1990 in advance of river erosion examined a substantial part the small medieval rural hospital St Giles by Brompton Bridge later post-medieval farm. Established latter half twelfth century for infirm, including lepers, layout consisted detached stone chapel adjacent to crossing, with timber hall west. This was destroyed fire, sequence buildings were then constructed areas. By fifteenth these structures also included building, possibly refectory. The first...
In recent years, scholars have become increasingly skeptical of the idea that there is any relationship between capacities entertainment structures such as theaters and amphitheaters populations Graeco-Roman cities. this article, we begin by offering a model information percolation in cities grounded settlement scaling theory. We then show systematic both Roman empire, but far from linear, indicating decreasing fraction population attended events structures. addition, although great deal...
Despite the recent flurry of interest in various aspects ancient urbanism, we still know little about how much traffic flowed and out cities, part because problems with using commodities as proxies for trade. This article investigates another approach, which is to estimate these flows from built environment, concentrating on transport infrastructure such city gates. To do this, I begin by discussing a new model would expect this kind expand population, before investigating relationship...
Abstract Estimating the numbers of residences, and thus residential densities populations, ancient settlements remains a significant problem. This is true even for ‘greenfield’ sites due to differential visibility structures made different materials in aerial geophysical surveys. In this paper, we take advantage statistical relationships among elements built environments Roman cities Britannia more broadly across Empire, estimate total number buildings, population density Silchester. The...
Although there has been increasing appreciation of the existence non-linear relationships between aspects built environments ancient settlements and their estimated populations, it is still often difficult to make meaningful comparisons sites, given wildly different sizes. Here, I begin by offering a detailed review evidence for scaling within Roman Empire, before showing how deviations from can be used create unique fingerprint each site, which reflects its individual social economic...
Abstract There has recently been a great deal of interest in the effects sizes communities on social and economic conditions settlements, drawing theoretical empirical work complex systems. However, although it is clear that there series relationships between sites their various attributes range modern non-modern contexts, not yet known whether these extend to life within different neighbourhoods, blocks, or individual households. In this article, I investigate case by focusing one site,...