Machines, Power and the Ancient Economy*

By A. Wilson. Journal of Roman Studies, 2002

172 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Archeology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology

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In Archeology

1. P. Erdkamp
2. Alan K. Bowman
3. A. Wilson

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. P. Erdkamp
2. Alan K. Bowman

In Paleontology

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2. Alan K. Bowman

Citations in the corpus

• Quantifying the Roman Economy: Integration, Growth, Decline? (2013, background): “173 Mattingly 1985; 1988a; 1988b; 1993; Hitchner 1993; 1995b; Wilson 2002a; Thonemann 2007. will, once again, be to see what conclusions of general signiWcance we can coax out of these micro-examples, both in relation to agricultural activity in its narrower sense and in terms of the relationship…”
• The Grain Market in the Roman Empire: A Social, Political and Economic Study (2005, background): “Wilson (1990) 193: ‘Numerous loom-weights from both urban and rural sites point to weaving as a common household industry.”
• General Sources of General Purpose Technologies in Complex Societies: Theory of Global Leadership-Driven Innovation, Warfare and Human Development (2015, unknown): “The count of inventions and innovations from historical documents does not provide reliable results; however, several historical studies confirm the huge number of discoveries, inventions and innovations of the Roman Empire in comparison with other contemporary societies [88,103,113,132,198,232,235]”