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Chapter 1: Pathways to reframing the Roman economy: from uniformity to diversity? -- Part I Unusual actors, attitudes and perspectives -- Chapter 2: Textile economy in the Veneto Region (North-Eastern Italy): a textile tools oriented spatial approach -- Chapter 3: Craftsmen and shopkeepers serving the army: the example of the colony of Lugdunum (1st century AD) -- Part II Unconventional loci of production -- Chapter 5: Roman metallurgic production in the Veneto region between urban and rural contexts -- Chapter 6: Pigs in the city, bees on the roof: intra-urban animal husbandry and butchery in Roman Spain -- Chapter 7: Olive Oil Production and Economic Growth in the Roman Provinces: the Peculiar Case of Volubilis in Mauretania Tingitana -- Chapter 8: Roman road stations in Gallia Cisalpina: an archaeological approach to elusive central places -- Chapter 9: Ephemeral Economies? Investigating Roman wetland exploitation in the Pontine marshes (Lazio, Central Italy) -- Chapter 10: Settling the Salinaria? Evaluating site location patterns of Iron Age and Roman salt production in northern Gaul -- Chapter 11: Ollae, cistulae, cadi, utres, cupae and other intangible vessels in the Roman economy. Some case studies -- Part V Revising traditional narratives -- Chapter 12: Reconstructing economic rural landscapes. The case of southern Etruria -- Chapter 13: Ancient Indian Ocean Trade and the Roman Economy. .

This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and archaeology, and as a consequence remain largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship. By reincorporating, for the first time, these long-obscured practices in mainstream scholarly discourses, this book offers a more complete and balanced view of an economic system that for too long has mostly been studied through its macro-economic and large-scale and thus archaeologically and textually omnipresent aspects. The topic is approached in five thematic sections, covering unusual actors and perspectives, unusual places of production, exigent landscapes of exploitation, less-visible products and artefacts, and divergent views on emblematic economic spheres. To this purpose, the book brings together a select group of leading scholars and promising early career researchers in archaeology and ancient economic history, well positioned to steer this ill-developed but fundamental field of the Roman economy in promising new directions. Dimitri Van Limbergen is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His main areas of study are Roman archaeology and economic history. Adeline Hoffelinck is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. She researches the transformation of commercial infrastructure in Roman cities during their urbanization. Devi Taelman is a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is interested in the study of the economy of ornamental stones used in antiquity, and in human-environment interactions in Roman Antiquity.

"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.

The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. Additionally, the opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led to methodologically innovative experiments. One of today's major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation—that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale.

Mapping Landscapes in Transformation gathers experts from different disciplines, active in the fields of historical geography, urban and landscape history, archaeology and heritage conservation. They are specialised in a wide variety of space-time contexts, including regions within Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and periods from antiquity to the 21st century."