Local economies? : : production and exchange of inland regions in late antiquity / / edited by Luke Lavan.

• Superior document: Late antique archaeology ; v. 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Lavan, Luke.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.; c2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Hardback ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Late antique archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (652 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Local Economies in Late Antiquity? Some Thoughts /; The Late Antique Economy: Approaches, Methods and Conceptual Issues /; The Late Antique Economy: Regional Surveys /; The Late Antique Economy: Primary and Secondary Production /; The Late Antique Economy: Infrastructures of Transport and Retail /; The Late Antique Economy: Ceramics and Trade /; How Much Trade was Local, Regional and Inter-Regional? A Comparative Perspective on the Late Antique Economy /; Integration and Disintegration in the Late Roman Economy: The Role Of Markets, Emperors, and Aristocrats /; Villas, Taxes and Trade in Fourth Century Hispania /; The Lessons of Gaulish Sigillata and Other Finewares /; Patterning the Late Antique Economies of Inland Sicily in a Mediterranean Context /; Diana Veteranorum and the Dynamics of an Inland Economy /; The Economic Expansion of the Anatolian Countryside in Late Antiquity: The Coast Versus Inland Regions /; The Urban Economy in Southern Inland Greater Syria from the Seventh Century to the End of the Umayyads /; Balancing the Scales: Romano-British Pottery in Early Late Antiquity /; The Supply and Distribution of Ceramic Building Material in Roman Britain /; Imported and Local Pottery in Late Roman Pannonia /; Africa: Patterns of Consumption in Coastal Regions Versus Inland Regions. The Ceramic Evidence (300–700 A.D.) /; Pottery Production and Exchange in Late Antique Syria (Fourth-Eighth Century A.D.). A Study of Some Imported and Local Wares /; Abstracts in French /; Indices /; Late Antique Archaeology /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004309780
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Luke Lavan.

The Roman economy was operated significantly above subsistence level, with production being stimulated by both taxation and trade. Some regions became wealthy on the basis of exporting low-value agricultural products across the Mediterranean. In contrast, it has usually been assumed that the high costs of land transport kept inland regions relatively poor. This volume challenges these assumptions by presenting new research on production and exchange within inland regions. The papers, supported by detailed bibliographic essays, range from Britain to Jordan. They reveal robust agricultural economies in many interior regions. Here, some wealth did come from high value products, which could defy transport costs. However, ceramics also indicate local exchange systems, capable of generating wealth without being integrated into inter-regional trading networks. The role of the State in generating production and exchange is visible, but often co-existed with local market systems. Contributors are Alyssa A. Bandow, Fanny Bessard, Michel Bonifay, Kim Bowes, Stefano Costa, Jeremy Evans, Elizabeth Fentress, Piroska Hárshegyi, Adam Izdebski, Luke Lavan, Tamara Lewit, Phil Mills, Katalin Ottományi, Peter Sarris, Emanuele Vaccaro, Agnès Vokaer, Mark Whittow and Andrea Zerbini.