Research Catalog

Title

Feeding the Roman army : the archaeology of production and supply in NW Europe / edited by Sue Stallibrass and Richard Thomas.

Publication

Oxford, UK : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed in the U.S. by] David Brown Books, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Stallibrass, Sue.
• Thomas, Richard, Dr.
• Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (17th : 2007 : University College, London)

Description

169 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"These ten papers bring together a growing body of new archaeological evidence in an attempt to reconsider the ways in which the Roman army was provisioned with basic foodstuffs. Did the army rely on long distance supply lines, or were basic provisions aquired regionally or from local communities? To what extent was the production and supply of food to the Roman army situational and affected by the very nature of those foods? This volume explores these types of issues, using case studies from Roman Britain, northern France, the Netherlands and the Rhine Delta."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Römisches Reich; Militär
• Food supply > Europe, Northern > History
• Operational rations (Military supplies) > Europe, Northern > History > Congresses
• Europe, Northern > Commerce > History > Congresses
• Europe, Northern > Antiquities > Congresses
• Rome > Army > Congresses
• Rome > History, Military > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• "The papers in this volume arose from two complementary sessions that were organised as part of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology (TRAC) conference held at University College London in March 2007: Feeding the Roman army: the archaeology of supply chains and provisioning networks and Food for thought: economics, natural resources and the Roman military organisation"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

For starters: producing and supplying food to the army in the Roman north-west provinces / Richard Thomas and Sue Stallibrass -- Feeding the wolf in Cheshire: models and (a few) facts / Peter Carrington -- Supply-chain networks and the Roman invasion of Britain: a case study from Alchester, Oxfordshire / Richar Thomas -- Food supply at two successive military settlements in Arras (France): an archaeobotanical and archaeozoological approach / Marie Derreumaux and Sebastien Lepetz with the collaboration of Alain Jacques and Gilles Prilaux -- Food supply to the Roman army in the Rhine delts in the first century A.D. / Chiara Cavallo, Laura I. Kooistra and Monica K. Dutting -- Surplus production of animal products for the Roman army in a rural settlement in the Dutch River area / Maaike Groot -- A biometric perspective on the size of cattle in Roman Nijmegen, The Netherlands: implications for the supply of urban consumers and the Roman army / Erik P. Filean -- Feeding the army from Dorset: pottery, salt and the Roman state / James Gerrard -- Commodities or logistics? The role of equids in Roman supply networks / Cluny Johnstone -- Food for thought: what's next on the menu? / Sue Stallibrass and Richard Thomas.

ISBN

• 1842173235 (pbk.)
• 9781842173237 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 228193995
• SCSB-11904708

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library