Recycling and reuse in the Roman economy

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020 and ©2020

Subject:

Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Rome
Rome - Antiquities

Contributor:

Duckworth, Chloë N., editor
Wilson, Andrew, editor

ISBN:

9780198860846 and 0198860846

Series:

Oxford studies on the Roman economy

Description:

xxviii, 478 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, charts ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction: Recycling and reuse in the Roman economy / Chloë N. Duckworth and Andrew Wilson -- Recycling in the Roman world: Concepts, questions, materials, and organization / J. Theodore Peña -- Part I. Reusing commodities, transforming meaning. The reuse of textiles in the Roman world / John Peter Wild ; Reuse and recycling of papyrus / Erja Salmenkivi ; Reuse of statuary and spolia: an economic perspective / Simon J. Barker ; An inconvenient truth: evaluating the impact of amphora reuse through computational simulation modelling / Tom Brughmans and Alessandra Pecci -- Part II. Chemical data and material flows. Modelling Roman concepts of copper-alloy recycling and mutability: the chemical characterization hypothesis and Roman Britain / Peter Bray ; Recycling and Roman silver coinage / Matthew J. Ponting ; Elements, isotopes, and glass recycling / Patrick Degryse ; Seeking the invisible: new approaches to Roman glass recycling / Chloë N. Duckworth -- Part III. Site formation, visibility, and temporality of recycling. A regional economy of recycling over four centuries at Spolverino (Tuscany) and environs / Alessandro Sebastiani and Thomas J. Derrick ; The organized recycling of Roman villa sites / Beth Munro ; Old buildings, building material, and the death of recycling in Post-Roman Britain / Robin Fleming ; Reuse of Roman artefacts in late antiquity and the early medieval West: a case study from Britain of bracelets and belt fittings / Ellen Swift -- Part IV: Where next? When the statue is both marble, and lime / Chloë N. Duckworth, Andrew Wilson, Astrid Van Oyen, Catherine Alexander, Jane Evans, Christopher Green, and David J. Mattingly

Summary:

The recycling and reuse of materials and objects were extensive in the past, but have rarely been embedded into models of the economy; even more rarely has any attempt been made to address the scale of these practices. Recent developments, including the use of large datasets, computational modelling, and high-resolution analytical chemistry are increasingly offering the means to reconstruct recycling and reuse, and even to approach the thorny issue of quantification. This volume is the first to bring together these new approaches, and the first to present a consideration of recycling and reuse in the Roman economy, taking into account a range of materials and using a variety of methodological approaches. It presents integrated, cross-referential evidence for the recycling and reuse of textiles, papyrus, statuary and building materials, amphorae, metals, and glass, and examines significant questions about organization, value, and the social meaning of recycling

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

TD794.5 .R43127 2020

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