Sperling, Heinz
Rekonstruktion von Betriebsmodellen antiker Produktionsanlagen mit Hilfe von Prozessketten-Analysen: Methodik und Fallstudien bei der Ziegelherstellung, Brennholzgewinnung und den Transporten in römischer Zeit
Roman brickworks in the Northwest provinces: Operating models were reconstructed which allow quantitative statements to be made on the maximum production capacity, the personnel and fuel requirements and the transport costs of such plants. The Roman brickyard in Dormagen is the example of an application. The developed algorithms are designed as open source and can easily be adapted to other findings. Because of the comparability of the kilns found in the Roman north-west provinces with those found in the upper Tiber - for the production of bricks for buildings in Rome - the brickworks capacities required there could be determined for the first time.
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Sessions 2–3, Single Contributions
Economic aspects permeate all areas of public and private life in ancient societies, whether in urban development, religion, art, housing, or in death. Research on ancient economies has long played a significant role in ancient history. Increasingly in the last decades, awareness has grown in archaeology that the material culture of ancient societies offers excellent opportunities for studying the structure, performance, and dynamics of ancient economic systems and economic processes. Therefore, the main objective of this congress was to understand economy as a central element of classical societies and to analyse its interaction with ecological, political, social, religious, and cultural backgrounds. The theme of the congress was addressed to all disciplines that deal with Greco-Roman civilization and their neighbouring cultures from the Aegean Bronze Age to the end of Late Antiquity.
In this collective volume, single contributions of sessions 2 and 3 are dealing on the one hand with the investigation of natural environmental factors – climate and landscape – as impacts on the ancient economy, and on the other hand with the exploration of production system. Thematically, the spectrum ranges from the contextualisation of ancient handicrafts, to questions about the production of, for example, decorative metal objects, glass, portrait statues and bricks, to ancient architecture and the associated construction system. The temporal and topographical framework extends from Mycenaean and Archaic Greece, through Iron Age Southern Italy and Hellenistic-Roman Sicily as well as Macedonia, to Imperial Spain and Asia Minor.
