Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/19:00117102

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0224077" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0224077</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224077" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0224077</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire

Original language description

An important question for our understanding of Roman history is how the Empire's economy was structured, and how long-distance trading within and between its provinces was organised and achieved. Moreover, it is still unclear whether large construction timbers, for use in Italy, came from the widespread temperate forests north of the Alps and were then transported to the sparsely-wooded Mediterranean region in the south. Here, we present dendrochronological results from the archaeological excavation of an expensively decorated portico in the centre of Rome. The oak trees (Quercus sp.), providing twenty-four well-preserved planks in waterlogged ground, had been felled between 40 and 60 CE in the Jura Mountains of north-eastern France. It is most likely that the wood was transported to the Eternal City on the Saone and Rhone rivers and then across the Mediterranean Sea. This rare dendrochronological evidence from the capital of the Roman Empire gives fresh impetus to the ongoing debate on the likelihood of transporting timber over long distances within and between Roman provinces. This study reconstructs the administrative and logistic efforts required to transport high-quality construction timber from central Europe to Rome. It also highlights an advanced network of trade, and emphasises the enormous value of oak wood in Roman times.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10510 - Climatic research

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-22102S" target="_blank" >GA17-22102S: 2000 years of PALeoclimatology and Ecology from Oak stable isotopes in the Czech Republic (PALEO)</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

e0224077

UT code for WoS article

000533987600006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85075980716