id
	12025
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/12025
Resource template
	Book Section
Resource class
	bibo:BookSection
Title
	Agricultural production in Roman Italy
Creator
	Witcher, Robert E.
Publisher
	Wiley Blackwell
Date
	2016
Language
	eng
Abstract
	This chapter considers the practice and organization of agricultural production in Roman Italy drawing on textual, archaeological, and ethnoarchaeological evidence. As well as reviewing the types of crops cultivated and animals husbanded, it considers broader questions about the scale of production and the social organization of labor (e.g. peasants, slaves, tenants). The chapter outlines the significance of critical new approaches to ancient texts and recent archaeological discoveries for established narratives of agricultural production and agrarian relations. This includes questioning the extent to which peasant farmers were systematically pushed from the land and the significance of oil and wine production in the economic fortunes of the Republican aristocracy. Throughout, examples are used to demonstrate how powerful ancient and modern assumptions (e.g. the self-sufficient peasant, “decline”) shape interpretation of texts and archaeological evidence.
Is Part Of
	A Companion to Roman Italy
Spatial Coverage
	Chichester
Cited by
	11044
Editor
	Cooley, Alison
Pages
	459 - 482
Uri
	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1643467/agricultural-production-in-roman-italy
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/QBJ7IFVH/item-list

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