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SYSTEMS OF DEPENDENT LABOUR IN ROMAN IMPERIAL Q...

Quarries are an interdisciplinary research topic for scholars who are interested in technical
organization  economy  work processes and supply chains. In antiquity  the quarrying and trade
of stone were highly dependent on persons from a variety of legal status groups and their
cooperation in networks and institutions. Research shows that during the high Roman Empire 
some quarries both belonged to the Roman emperor and were operated by an administrative
structure that was highly dependent on him. Although the administrations were organized in a
strict hierarchy  they depended much more on the emperor and the officials he employed than on
the legal statuses of individuals. Slaves and freedmen gained importance due to their
specialization in business. Characteristic is the cooperation of these actors within different
fields of work in the economy  but in many cases it cannot be determined in detail merely from
the sources  and requires research models. By using the chaîne opératoire and analyzing the
quarry at Simitthus as an example  the paper shows to what extent this methodology is suitable
for identifying dependency relationships between individuals. In addition  interagency and
spatial relations can serve as indicators of dependencies among the actors  and network
analysis offers insights into administrations in imperial quarries.

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