Tom Brughmans is an associate professor at Aarhus University's Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) and Classical Archaeology. His research interests include the study of Roman economic and urban phenomena, past social networks, and visual signalling systems. He performs much of his work by applying computational methods such as network science, agent-based simulation, and geographical information systems. His research projects MERCURY and SIMREC developed educational resources and case studies to make simulation studies of the Roman economy more common (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship). His ongoing project MINERVA aims to develop a highly detailed network model of the Roman road system, and to perform simulation experiments to explore the centuries-long distribution patterns revealed by Roman tableware and amphora data.Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on the Roman economy, ancient technology, urbanism, and settlement. He has excavated in Italy, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Cyprus, and Turkey. He is co-director (with Alan Bowman) of the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP), and (with Chris Howgego) of the OxREP-Ashmolean Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project; and he is also Principal Investigator of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project (EAMENA).

This is the eighteenth volume in the series "Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy" that Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson launched in 2009, and arguably the most innovative to date. It sends a strong message that computational modeling has now sufficiently matured to make a substantial contribution to our understanding of Roman economic history, and even more importantly to our understanding of how to study that history.

• INTRODUCTION 1: Tom Brughmans: Why simulate Roman economies? CASE STUDIES 2: Pascal Warnking: Simulating Roman maritime trade: modelling sailing times and shipping routes 3: Marek Vlach: The Antonine Plague: A Case Study of Epidemiological Modelling and Impact Evaluation 4: John William Hanson and Tom Brughmans: Settlement scale and economic networks in the Roman Empire 5: Simon Carrignon, Tom Brughmans, and Iza Romanowska: Transmission of cultural and economic strategies in inter-regional tableware trade 6: Xavier Rubio-Campillo and María Coto-Sarmiento: New approaches to old questions: the exploration of large-scale trade dynamics using hypothesis-testing frameworks 7: Brian Dermody, Alexander Chiu Smit, and Rens L.P.H. van Beek: A Model of Grain Production and Trade in the Roman World 8: Pau de Soto and César Carreras: The economic and social evolution of the Iberian Peninsula as revealed through analysis of Roman transport infrastructure 9: Mark Groenhuijzen: Evaluating hypotheses about local transport systems through spatial and network analysis: the Dutch part of the Lower Rhine limes and its hinterland 10: Philip Verhagen: Modelling the basics of Roman demography: the case of the Dutch limes DISCUSSION 11: Shawn Graham: Mapping the landscape of our ignorance 12: Andrew Wilson: Positioning computational modelling in Roman studies

Tom Brughmans is an associate professor at Aarhus University's Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) and Classical Archaeology. His research interests include the study of Roman economic and urban phenomena, past social networks, and visual signalling systems. He performs much of his work by applying computational methods such as network science, agent-based simulation, and geographical information systems. His research projects MERCURY and SIMREC developed educational resources and case studies to make simulation studies of the Roman economy more common (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship). His ongoing project MINERVA aims to develop a highly detailed network model of the Roman road system, and to perform simulation experiments to explore the centuries-long distribution patterns revealed by Roman tableware and amphora data.Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on the Roman economy, ancient technology, urbanism, and settlement. He has excavated in Italy, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Cyprus, and Turkey. He is co-director (with Alan Bowman) of the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP), and (with Chris Howgego) of the OxREP-Ashmolean Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project; and he is also Principal Investigator of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project (EAMENA).

This is the eighteenth volume in the series "Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy" that Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson launched in 2009, and arguably the most innovative to date. It sends a strong message that computational modeling has now sufficiently matured to make a substantial contribution to our understanding of Roman economic history, and even more importantly to our understanding of how to study that history.

• INTRODUCTION 1: Tom Brughmans: Why simulate Roman economies? CASE STUDIES 2: Pascal Warnking: Simulating Roman maritime trade: modelling sailing times and shipping routes 3: Marek Vlach: The Antonine Plague: A Case Study of Epidemiological Modelling and Impact Evaluation 4: John William Hanson and Tom Brughmans: Settlement scale and economic networks in the Roman Empire 5: Simon Carrignon, Tom Brughmans, and Iza Romanowska: Transmission of cultural and economic strategies in inter-regional tableware trade 6: Xavier Rubio-Campillo and María Coto-Sarmiento: New approaches to old questions: the exploration of large-scale trade dynamics using hypothesis-testing frameworks 7: Brian Dermody, Alexander Chiu Smit, and Rens L.P.H. van Beek: A Model of Grain Production and Trade in the Roman World 8: Pau de Soto and César Carreras: The economic and social evolution of the Iberian Peninsula as revealed through analysis of Roman transport infrastructure 9: Mark Groenhuijzen: Evaluating hypotheses about local transport systems through spatial and network analysis: the Dutch part of the Lower Rhine limes and its hinterland 10: Philip Verhagen: Modelling the basics of Roman demography: the case of the Dutch limes DISCUSSION 11: Shawn Graham: Mapping the landscape of our ignorance 12: Andrew Wilson: Positioning computational modelling in Roman studies

Tom Brughmans is an associate professor at Aarhus University's Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) and Classical Archaeology. His research interests include the study of Roman economic and urban phenomena, past social networks, and visual signalling systems. He performs much of his work by applying computational methods such as network science, agent-based simulation, and geographical information systems. His research projects MERCURY and SIMREC developed educational resources and case studies to make simulation studies of the Roman economy more common (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship). His ongoing project MINERVA aims to develop a highly detailed network model of the Roman road system, and to perform simulation experiments to explore the centuries-long distribution patterns revealed by Roman tableware and amphora data.Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on the Roman economy, ancient technology, urbanism, and settlement. He has excavated in Italy, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Cyprus, and Turkey. He is co-director (with Alan Bowman) of the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP), and (with Chris Howgego) of the OxREP-Ashmolean Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project; and he is also Principal Investigator of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project (EAMENA).

This is the eighteenth volume in the series "Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy" that Alan Bowman and Andrew Wilson launched in 2009, and arguably the most innovative to date. It sends a strong message that computational modeling has now sufficiently matured to make a substantial contribution to our understanding of Roman economic history, and even more importantly to our understanding of how to study that history.

• INTRODUCTION 1: Tom Brughmans: Why simulate Roman economies? CASE STUDIES 2: Pascal Warnking: Simulating Roman maritime trade: modelling sailing times and shipping routes 3: Marek Vlach: The Antonine Plague: A Case Study of Epidemiological Modelling and Impact Evaluation 4: John William Hanson and Tom Brughmans: Settlement scale and economic networks in the Roman Empire 5: Simon Carrignon, Tom Brughmans, and Iza Romanowska: Transmission of cultural and economic strategies in inter-regional tableware trade 6: Xavier Rubio-Campillo and María Coto-Sarmiento: New approaches to old questions: the exploration of large-scale trade dynamics using hypothesis-testing frameworks 7: Brian Dermody, Alexander Chiu Smit, and Rens L.P.H. van Beek: A Model of Grain Production and Trade in the Roman World 8: Pau de Soto and César Carreras: The economic and social evolution of the Iberian Peninsula as revealed through analysis of Roman transport infrastructure 9: Mark Groenhuijzen: Evaluating hypotheses about local transport systems through spatial and network analysis: the Dutch part of the Lower Rhine limes and its hinterland 10: Philip Verhagen: Modelling the basics of Roman demography: the case of the Dutch limes DISCUSSION 11: Shawn Graham: Mapping the landscape of our ignorance 12: Andrew Wilson: Positioning computational modelling in Roman studies