THE ARCHAIC ROMAN ECONOMY (8TH – 4TH CENTURIES BC) SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, PRODUCTION AND TRADE IN AN EARLY MEDITERRANEAN STATE

Project Information

RAE 2017

Grant agreement ID: 795214

DOI

10.3030/795214

Project closed

EC signature date 9 April 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 30 September 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 173 076,00

EU contribution

€ 173 076,00

Coordinated by

ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE
France

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - RAE 2017 (THE ARCHAIC ROMAN ECONOMY (8TH – 4TH CENTURIES BC)SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, PRODUCTION AND TRADE IN AN EARLY MEDITERRANEAN STATE)

Reporting period: 2018-10-01 to 2020-09-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The economic history of early Rome has been mainly investigated as a local phenomenon and often only on the
basis of literary evidence. We propose a long-term and regional approach: the early Roman economy as part of the
economic history of central Tyrrhenian Italy from the 8th to the 4th century BC, and its interactions with the wider
Mediterranean networks of exchange.
This aim will be achieved by means of the following objectives and methods.
Objective 1: Systematic and critical review of the literary sources and of the scientific literature on the
archaeological evidence of settlements, land use, production and importation in the Low Tiber Valley between the
10th and the 4th century BC.
Objective 2: Intensive surveys in the Roman hinterland of three productive extra-urban Archaic settlements within
their natural context: a farmhouse, a rural village and a coastal settlement.
Objective 3: Archaeometric analysis of imported pottery found in Ancient Latium.
Objective 5: Historical reconstruction of production, trade and consumption in Rome between the 8th and the 4th
century BC; theorisation of new models for Iron Age and pre-monetary economies.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Systematic and critical review of the literary sources and of the scientific literature on the
archaeological evidence of settlements, land use, production and importation in the Low Tiber Valley between the
10th and the 4th century BC.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Historical reconstruction of the roman archaic economy.

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