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SUMMARY:The economic transformation of Iron Age Britain under Roman coloni
 sation\, with a special focus on Cambridgeshire - Rob Wiseman (Cambridge A
 rchaeological Unit)
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CONTACT:Jinoh Kim
DESCRIPTION:Late prehistoric Britain underwent rapid economic transformati
 on when the island was invaded and colonised by Roman from AD 43. A key ec
 onomic change was in who people traded goods with - from local family-base
 d exchange networks in the later Iron Age\, to trade networks which spanne
 d the Roman province and linking hundreds of settlements. The rapid expans
 ion of distribution networks had knock on-effects in the scale of British 
 settlements\; the appearance of specialised manufacturing\; and the creati
 on of an integrated agricultural sector. This talk will illustrate the tra
 nsformations of this period by drawing on several recent 'big data' archae
 ology projects. It will start with the basic economic system of the later 
 Iron Age in Bedfordshire\, then explore the effects of the Roman road netw
 ork on the distribution of manufactured goods and writing across Roman Bri
 tain\, and conclude with the transformation of agriculture in Cambridgeshi
 re. \n\nRob Wiseman is a project officer with the Cambridge Archaeological
  Unit\, as well as a member of the McDonald Institute and Coalition for Ar
 chaeological Synthesis. 
LOCATION:McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room
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