A Diachronic Look at the Agricultural Economy at the Red Sea Port of Aila: An Archaeobotanical Case for Hinterland Production in Arid Environments

Archaeological investigations carried out by the Roman Aqaba Project seek to reconstruct the economy of the ancient seaport of Aila and contribute new evidence concerning the nature of the imperial Roman economy in the East. This study presents a component of the project that is focused on the analy...

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Published in:Bulletin of ASOR
Authors: Ramsay, Jennifer H. (Author) ; Parker, Samuel Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of Chicago Press 2016
In: Bulletin of ASOR
RelBib Classification:HH Archaeology
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KBL Near East and North Africa
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Hinterland
B Aila
B Novel
B agricultural economy
B Byzantine
B Plant remains (Archaeology)
B Excavations (archaeology)
B Islamic
B Cotton
B AGRICULTURAL productivity
B Archaeobotany
B AGRICULTURAL economics
B oasis agriculture
B Jordan
B Historical linguistics
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