Settlement, Urbanization, and Population

by Bowman, Alan; Wilson, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780191731570
• ISBN10: 0191731579
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Alan Bowman is Camden Professor of Ancient History, Director for the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, and Fellow of Brasenose College. His research interests focus on papyrology, the Vindolanda Writing-tablets, and the social and economic history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and the Roman Empire.

Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies. He has directed excavations in Italy, Tunisia, and Libya, and is the author of numerous articles on ancient water supply, ancient technology, economy, and trade.

Table of Contents

Introduction A. Bowman & A. Wilson
Survey Method and Data
1. Estimating Ancient Greek Populations: The Evidence of Field Survey, S. Price
2. Missing Persons? Models of Mediterranean Regional Survey and Ancient Populations, R. Witcher
3. Calculating Ploughzone Demographics: Some insights from arid zone surveys, D. Mattingly
4. Rural Settlement and Population Extrapolation, a Case Study from the ager of Antium, central Italy (350 BC- AD 400), P. Attema and T. de Haas
Urbanization
5. Cities, Demography, and Development in the Roman Empire, N. Morley
6. City Sizes and Urbanization in the Roman Empire, A. Wislon
7. Rank-size analysis of Roman cities in Iberia and Britain, A. Marzano
8. The Urban System of Roman Asia Minor and Wider Urban Connectivity, J. Hanson
9. Towns and Territories in Roman Baetica, S. Keay & G. Earl
10. Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: Population and Settlement, A. Bowman