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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F19%3A00525136" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/19:00525136 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216224:14310/19:00117102

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10510 - Climatic research

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA17-22102S" target="_blank" >GA17-22102S: Dva tisíce let paleoklimatologických a ekologických dat na základě analýzy stabilních izotopů v letokruzích dubu z České republiky (PALEO)</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

14

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

12

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

e0224077

Kód UT WoS článku

000533987600006

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85075980716