The third OXREP conference took place on Friday, 3rd October 2008. The focus of this conference was on the agricultural economy of the Empire, with special reference to issues concerning agricultural productivity. Speakers included Katherine Blouin, Alan Bowman, Helen Goodchild, Dennis Kehoe, Myrto Malouta, Annalisa Marzano, and Andrew Wilson.
Programme
| 09.30 |
Dennis Kehoe
The state and production in the Roman agrarian economy
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| 10.30 |
Coffee |
| 11.00 |
Helen Goodchild
Quantifying agricultural production in the Tiber Valley during the Roman period
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| 12.00 |
Annalisa Marzano
Villas and agricultural production in central Italy
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| 13.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 |
Andrew Wilson
Mechanical irrigation: the archaeological evidence
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| 14.45 |
Myrto Malouta
Water-lifting devices in Egyptian papyri
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| 15.30 |
Tea |
| 15.50 |
Katherine Blouin
The Agricultural Economy of the Mendesian Nome during the Roman Period
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| 16.40 |
Alan Bowman
Agricultural productivity in Roman Egypt
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| 17.30 |
Marietta de Vos
The rural landscape of Thugga: Farms, presses, mills and transport
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| 18.15 |
Andrew Wilson and Annalisa Marzano
Presentation of presses database and general discussion
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