Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy

Chlo? N. Duckworth, Lecturer in Archaeological Materials Science, Newcastle University,Andrew Wilson, Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford

Chlo? N. Duckworth is a Lecturer in Archaeological Materials Science at Newcastle University. Her research focuses upon the chemical analysis of ancient and medieval glass, and upon the archaeology, science, and theory of technology and production. She directs archaeological fieldwork at two UNESCO World Heritage sites in Spain: the Alhambra (Granada) and Madinat al-Zahra (Cordoba). She is a keen advocate of public outreach and works to disseminate archaeological knowledge both in traditional media (television and radio) and online.

Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College. His research focuses on the Roman economy and ancient technology, urbanism, and settlement, and he has conducted excavations in Italy, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Cyprus, and Turkey. He is co-director (with Alan Bowman) of the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP) and (with Chris Howgego) of the OxREP-Ashmolean Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project; he is also Principal Investigator of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project (EAMENA).

1. Introduction: Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy, Chlo? N. Duckworth and Andrew Wilson
2. Recycling in the Roman World: Concepts, Questions, Materials, and Organization, J. Theodore Pe?a
Part I: Reusing Commodities, Transforming Meaning
3. The Reuse of Textiles in the Roman World, John Peter Wild
4. Reuse and Recycling of Papyrus, Erja Salmenkivi
5. Reuse of Statuary and Spolia: An Economic Perspective, Simon J. Barker
6. 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
7. Modelling Roman Concepts of Copper-Alloy Recycling and Mutability: The Chemical Characterization Hypothesis and Roman Britain, Peter Bray
8. Recycling and Roman Silver Coinage, Matthew J. Ponting
9. Elements, Isotopes, and Glass Recycling, Patrick Degryse
10. Seeking the Invisible: New Approaches to Roman Glass Recycling, Chlo? N. Duckworth
Part III: Site Formation, Visibility, and Temporality of Recycling
11. A Regional Economy of Recycling over Four Centuries at Spolverino (Tuscany) and Environs, Alessandro Sebastiani and Thomas J. Derrick
12. The Organized Recycling of Roman Villa Sites, Beth Munro
13. Old Buildings, Building Material, and the Death of Recycling in Post-Roman Britain, Robin Fleming
14. 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?
15. When the Statue is Both Marble, and Lime, Chlo? N. Duckworth, Andrew Wilson, Astrid Van Oyen, Catherine Alexander, Jane Evans, Christopher Green, and David J. Mattingly