A model for calculating the capacities of horrea and agricultural areas of Gallo-Roman villae in the Province of Germania superior / Lars Block -- Is it possible to quantify the Roman Agrarian economy? In favour of quantitative scepticism / Javier Salido Dominguez -- Calculating the storage capacities of granaries: a tentative model / Stephane Martin -- Evolution du stockage agricole dans la moitie septentrionale de la France a l'age du fer (Vie-Ier s. av. n. e.) / Stanislas Bossard -- De nouvelles formes de stockage de cereales a l'epoque romaine en Gaule: quels changements, avec quel(s) moteur(s) / Alain Ferdiere, avec la collaboration de Veronique Zech-Matterne et Pierre Ouzoulias -- Storage in a non-villa landscape: the Batavian countryside / Stephane Martin.
Summary:
"In recent years, storage has come to the fore as a central aspect of ancient economies. However studies have hitherto focused on urban and military storage. Although archaeological excavations of rural granaries are numerous, their evidence has yet to be fully taken into account. Such is the ambition of Rural Granaries in Northern Gaul (Sixth Century BCE - Fourth Century CE). Focusing on northern Gaul, this volume starts by discussing at length the possibility of quantifying storage capacities and, through them, agrarian production. Building on this first part, the second half of the book sketches the evolution of rural storage in Gaul from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity, setting firmly archaeological evidence in the historical context of the Roman Empire"-- Provided by publisher.
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