Project description DEENESFRITPL Ancient Rome’s transport and tastes The Roman Empire introduced significant political and socio-economic changes, which can still be seen today in Italy’s transport network and the development of trade and commerce. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) NetFoodIt project will study Roman transport and movement and the socioeconomic dynamics within the core of the Roman Empire and its broader surroundings (present-day Italy) by using imported food plants. The project will innovatively examine the relationship between mobility, commerce, and the introduction of new tastes into Roman Italy. NetFoodIt will develop a geodatabase of Roman food import assemblages, investigate their social access and rarity/regularity and explore the centrality of the import sites and their character as consumption or redistribution centres. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The emergence of the Roman Empire marked a series of significant political and socio-economic changes across modern-day Italy as well as across a very large part of modern-day Europe. Among these, the establishment of a new transport network and the development of trade and commerce that this facilitated, was one of the most important and lasting changes. NetFoodIt aims at using imported food plants, for the study of Roman transport and movement and the socioeconomic dynamics that this established within the core of the Roman Empire and its broader surroundings, that is, across modern-day Italy. In doing so NetFoodIt will shed new light into the relation between mobility, commerce and the introduction of new tastes in Roman Italy. NetFoodIt will develop a geodatabase of Roman food imports assemblages and study their social access and rarity/regularity. In combination with the Roman transport network the project will next investigate the centrality of the sites with these imports, their character as consumption or redistribution centres and will reconstruct the routes for the distribution of these food plants. This will provide important insights into Roman commerce, economy and the extension and acquisition of new tastes as Rome expanded and developed contacts with other ancient cultures. In order to do so, a combination of novel techniques, which include Social Network Analysis, Site Rarity Index calculations, Spatial Network Analysis and spatial statistics will be employed in conjunction for the first time for Roman Italy. These methods and the training provided during their implementation by a team of leading international researchers will enhance the candidate's profile with cutting-edge techniques that will situate her at the forefront of research and boost her career. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce Programme(s) HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 Call for proposal HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit Grant Coordinator Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica Net EU contribution € 165 312,96 Address Plaça rovellat s/n 43003 Tarragona Spain See on map Region Este Cataluña Tarragona Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
