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Archaeology of empires
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Archaeology of empires
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Series:
World Archaeology
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23 (3)
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Journal
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John A J Gowlett
John F Cherry
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Routledge Journals
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1992
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Is Portmanteau: 1
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0043-8243
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21 Nov 2005
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Archaeology of empires
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Special issue, including
Imperialism, empire and the integration of the Roman economy
Greg Woolf
283 - 293
a range of competing hypotheses about the nature of the Roman economy are presented, and distributions of amphorae and certain other artefact categories are used to suggest some broad patterns which successful theories of the Roman economy must address. In particular it is argued that regional distributions of material usually constituted the highest level of integration achieved in the Roman world, and that larger-scale patterning was only created during the period of imperial expansion during the last two centuries BC
Territorial expansion and the Roman Empire
Michael G Fulford
294 - 305
The author argues that although the city of Rome was the most important consumer of subsistence surpluses from lands bordering the Mediterranean, Roman expansion into temperate Europe depended on the supply of strategic commodities. Flows of goods northwards can be identified in the archaeological record and their importance can be gauged by the way in which pre-existing and long-standing trade routes were over-ridden by them. Use of such subsistence resources on the frontier overcame the problems of gathering food in a land-locked environment and of regional shortages, allowed the army to concentrate on military affairs and released it from the necessity of over-exploiting frontier lands
