The impact of climate change on the agriculture and the economy of Southern Gaul: New perspectives of agent-based modelling

N Bernigaud, A Bondeau, J Guiot, F Bertoncello… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
What impact did the Roman Climate Optimum (RCO) and the Late Antique Little Ice Age
(LALIA) have on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire? Our article presents an agent-based …

Tableware trade in the Roman East: Exploring cultural and economic transmission with agent-based modelling and approximate Bayesian computation

S Carrignon, T Brughmans, I Romanowska - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The availability of reliable commercial information is considered a key feature of inter-
regional trade if the Roman economy was highly integrated. However, the extent to which …

The spread of the cult of Asclepius in the context of the Roman army benefited from the presence of physicians: A spatial proximity analysis

T Glomb - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The article applies a GIS based approach to the study of the spread of the cult of Asclepius,
the Greco-Roman healing god, during the Roman period. It explores the role of soldiers and …

[HTML][HTML] Popularity of the cult of Asclepius in the times of the Antonine Plague: Temporal modeling of epigraphic evidence

T Glomb, V Kaše, P Heřmánková - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The research presented in the article tests quantitatively the existing hypothesis from the
academic debate that the Greco-Roman cult of Asclepius was more popular in the times of …

A mathematical perspective on Romanisation: Modelling the Roman road activation process in ancient Tunisia

ND Conrad, R Chemnitz, M Kostré, F Schweigart… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Romanisation is a multi-faceted historical phenomenon with profound and lasting cultural
impact on the ancient world. In the modern-day territory of Tunisia, this is particularly …

Ambiguous landscapes: A framework for assessing robustness and uncertainties in archaeological point pattern analysis

E Herrera Malatesta, S de Valeriola - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Landscape research in archaeology has greatly benefited from the increasing application of
computational methods over the last decades. Spatial statistical methods such as point …

Modelling Southern Mesopotamia Irrigated Landscapes: How Small-scale Processes Could Contribute to Large-Scale Societal Development

D Lang, MW Ertsen - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Early Southern Mesopotamia shows a complex history of expansion of (irrigated)
farming in relation to urban developments and changing landscapes. As a first step to study …