The Uncertain Past

Herausgeber: Lavan, Myles; Danon, Bart; Jew, Daniel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Introduces historians of pre-modern periods to a powerful, probability-based approach to uncertainty, drawing on techniques widely used in the social and natural sciences. Showcases how these practices can be applied to a wide range of problems in ancient history, whilst a substantial introduction explains the method"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9781009100656
• ISBN-10: 1009100653
• Artikelnr.: 64173133

Inhaltsangabe

1. Probabilistic modelling in ancient history Daniel Jew and Myles Lavan;
Part I. Uncertainty: 2. Assessing the scale of property confiscation in the
ancient Greek world Emily Mackil; 3. Senators and senatorial wealth at
Pompeii: reconstructing the local wealth distribution Bart Danon; 4. The
Roman coinage under the Antonines revisited: an economy of silver, not gold
Gilles Bransbourg; Part II. Variability and Missing Data: 5. Children and
their impact on family finances in Roman Egypt Paul V. Kelly; 6. The
financial sustainability of grain funds: a model-based approach using Monte
Carlo simulation N. Solonakis, A. Toure and M. Elhouderi; 7. New approaches
to the urban population and urbanization rate of the Roman Empire, AD 1 to
200 J. W. Hanson; 8. Afterword Bart Danon, Daniel Jew and Myles Lavan.