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SUMMARY:Graves\, grains and grievances: how quantifying archaeological dat
 a can help us trace urban dynamics against their global context (Joint wit
 h Garrod) - Iza Romanowska\, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. 
DTSTART:20230511T150000Z
DTEND:20230511T163000Z
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CONTACT:Simon Carrignon
DESCRIPTION:In these times of fragile and moving borders\, social and poli
 tical shifts\, and rapid climate change\, looking into the past can bring 
 much-needed insights into large-scale long-term dynamics of social and soc
 io-natural systems. The Roman Empire is a case in point as one of the earl
 iest examples of a large-scale integrated socio-economic and political bod
 y comprising human groups across diverse environments\, multiple languages
  and subsistence strategies. Its centuries-long history enables us to trac
 k the evolution of communities in the face of global social and environmen
 tal transformations.\n\nIn this presentation\, I will focus on the data\, 
 methods\, and results of a multiphased interdisciplinary project Reconstru
 cting ancient demographics through archaeological-historical data integrat
 ion and computer simulation investigating the demographic dynamics of the 
 ancient cities of Palmyra and Forum Hadriani. It showcases how computation
 al modelling methods applied to diverse proxies enable us to gain a fuller
  picture of the population dynamics of past communities against the backgr
 ound of the global events that affected them. Strong integration of a rang
 e of archaeological datasets\, including funerary data\, built environment
 \, as well as urban and hinterland reconstructions\, allowed us to gain si
 gnificant insights into the fundamental processes behind the urban evoluti
 on of these ancient cities. They also hint at more generalised socio-ecolo
 gical mechanisms that may be driving human groups both in the past and in 
 the present.
LOCATION:McDonald Institute Seminar Room\, Department of Archaeology\, Dow
 ning Site
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