TY - JOUR AU - Bastos, Marcio Teixeira PY - 2019/01/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Emerging distribution networks of Roman pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean: the sigillata clay lamps of Proconsular Africa JF - Heródoto: Revista do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Antiguidade Clássica e suas Conexões Afro-asiáticas JA - Herodoto VL - 3 IS - 2 SE - Dossiê / Dossier DO - 10.31669/herodoto.v3n2.13 UR - https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/herodoto/article/view/1221 SP - 132-157 AB - <p>This paper surveys the use of Network Science, especially the role of Archaeological<br />Networks to the study of Archeology and Ancient History. Network<br />thinking and network science are valuable methodologies and analytical techniques<br />to apply to the study clay lamps in the framework of Roman economy.<br />The recent application of network analysis in Antiquity and Archaeology has<br />demonstrated that there are a variety of approaches to recognizing network<br />patterns or thinking about phenomena as products of networked processes.<br />Provincial connectivity is one of the most debated aspects of Roman economics,<br />and ceramic consumption patterns in the interior and coastal regions of<br />Africa Proconsularis have proven to be very different. The dominant tendency<br />to turn to the communities formed and structured around native identities,<br />especially those based in the major urban centers and larger areas, seems to<br />establish itself as an argument for the economy and exchanges of the Roman<br />Empire. This types of networks helped to spread ideas and religious symbols<br />through clay lamps. Africa Proconsular demonstrates evidence that the ceramic<br />workshops emerged as networks in order to established themselves seeking<br />to meet the Mediterranean demand and religious consumption.</p> ER -