Settlement, Urbanization, and Population

This innovative monograph/series reflects a vigorous revival of interest in the ancient economy, focusing on the Mediterranean world under Roman rule (c. 100 BC to AD 3 5.0). Carefully quantified archaeological and documentary data; will be integrated to help ancient historians, economic historians,-and archaeologists think about economic behaviour collectively rather titan from separate perspectives. The volumes will include a substantial comparative-element and thus" be of interest to historians of other periods and places.

Alan Bowman is Camden Professor of Ancient History, Director for the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, and Fellow of Brasenose College. His research interests focus on papyrology, the Vindolanda Writing-tablets, and the social and economic history of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt and the Roman Empire.

Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies. He has directed excavations in Italy, Tunisia, and Libya, and is the author of numerous articles on ancient water supply, ancient technology, economy, and trade.