Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy
Edited by Chloë N. Duckworth and Andrew Wilson
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy, Chloë N. Duckworth and Andrew Wilson
2. Recycling in the Roman World: Concepts, Questions, Materials, and Organization, J. Theodore Peña
Part I: Reusing Commodities, Transforming Meaning
3. The Reuse of Textiles in the Roman World, John Peter Wild
4. Reuse and Recycling of Papyrus, Erja Salmenkivi
5. Reuse of Statuary and Spolia: An Economic Perspective, Simon J. Barker
6. An Inconvenient Truth: Evaluating the Impact of Amphora Reuse through Computational Simulation Modelling, Tom Brughmans and Alessandra Pecci
Part II: Chemical Data and Material Flows
7. Modelling Roman Concepts of Copper-Alloy Recycling and Mutability: The Chemical Characterization Hypothesis and Roman Britain, Peter Bray
8. Recycling and Roman Silver Coinage, Matthew J. Ponting
9. Elements, Isotopes, and Glass Recycling, Patrick Degryse
10. Seeking the Invisible: New Approaches to Roman Glass Recycling, Chloë N. Duckworth
Part III: Site Formation, Visibility, and Temporality of Recycling
11. A Regional Economy of Recycling over Four Centuries at Spolverino (Tuscany) and Environs, Alessandro Sebastiani and Thomas J. Derrick
12. The Organized Recycling of Roman Villa Sites, Beth Munro
13. Old Buildings, Building Material, and the Death of Recycling in Post-Roman Britain, Robin Fleming
14. Reuse of Roman Artefacts in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval West: A Case Study from Britain of Bracelets and Belt Fittings, Ellen Swift
Part IV: Where Next?
15. When the Statue is Both Marble, and Lime, Chloë N. Duckworth, Andrew Wilson, Astrid Van Oyen, Catherine Alexander, Jane Evans, Christopher Green, and David J. Mattingly