Single Contributions

Economic aspects permeate all areas of public and private life in ancient
societies, whether in urban development, religion, art, housing, or in death.
Research on ancient economies has long played a significant role in ancient history.
Increasingly in the last decades, awareness has grown in archaeology that the
material culture of ancient societies offers excellent opportunities for studying
the structure, performance, and dynamics of ancient economic systems and economic
processes. Therefore, the main objective of this congress was to understand economy
as a central element of classical societies and to analyse its interaction with
ecological, political, social, religious, and cultural backgrounds. The theme of the
congress was addressed to all disciplines that deal with Greco-Roman civilization
and their neighbouring cultures from the Aegean Bronze Age to the end of Late
Antiquity. In this collective volume, single contributions of sessions 4 and 5 deal
with questions on the exploitation of resources such as metals and marble in the
Roman imperial period and also on distribution, trade and networks in general in
antiquity. Thematically, the studies range from trade and cultural contacts in the
Iron Age and Archaic Mediterranean, Greek and Roman coinage, to Roman trade and
transport systems.