Professor Andrew Wilson Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire Institute of Archaeology  36 Beaumont St Oxford OX1 2PG England Tel: +44 (0)1865 278247  Fax: +44 (0)1865 278254  E-mail: andrew.wilson@arch.ox.ac.uk Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Chairman of The Society for Libyan Studies.  Corresponding overseas member of the Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France.

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Research Interests

Current research interests include the economy of the Roman empire; ancient technology; ancient water supply and usage; Roman architecture; Roman North Africa, and field survey. I am particularly interested in the ancient use of water-power and in mining techniques, and am researching the relationship between technological progress and economic growth in the Roman world.

I am currently co-directing, with Professor Alan Bowman, a major AHRC-funded 5-year research programme, The Oxford Roman Economy Project, which aims to collate and analyse a series of quantifiable indicators, from papyrological, epigraphic and archaeological sources, on the growth and contraction of the Roman economy between 100 B.C. and A.D. 300.

My doctoral dissertation on 'Water management and usage in Roman North Africa: a social and technological study' (Oxford, 1997) examined such topics as water supply, domestic and industrial usage, water-power, bathing, use of running water as a status symbol, drainage and sanitation. Besides a study of the technology involved in the construction and operation of hydraulic monuments, I also investigate wider questions such as the Roman technological debt to preceding Libyco-Punic and Berber cultures in North Africa, the social impact of hydraulic technology developed or introduced to the area during the Roman period, and the degree to which different social groups may have competed for a limited resource. (See Abstract)

My post-doctoral research on hydraulic infrastructure for rural settlement extended some of these questions to the Roman Empire as a whole, looking particularly at small-scale aqueduct systems, water-mills, irrigation and field drainage schemes in a number of different areas. During 1999-2000 I spent 9 months at the British School at Rome investigating ancient water management technologies in the Tiber Valley, as part of the British School's Tiber Valley Project.

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Field Projects

Recent fieldwork includes:

Excavation in the Roman Forum, Rome A collaboration between the American Institute for Roman Culture and the Universities of Oxford (UK) and Stanford (USA), the project is jointly directed by myself, Dr Darius Arya (IRC) and Dr Jennifer Trimble (Stanford). The aim is to investigate the interrelationship of commercial, religious and monumental space over time, in the zone between the Oratory of the Forty Martyrs, the so-called ‘Domitianic aula’ and the Temple of Castor, and along the Vicus Tuscus. Among the results of the first season (1 July – 7 August 2003) was the discovery that Caligula may have suppressed the street to the south of the Temple of Castor in order to extend his palace right up to the temple podium, probably to make the temple a monumental entrance to the palace as described by Suetonius and Dio Cassius. Subsequently the street was restored and the palace façade apparently remodelled. Excavation is now completed.

Janiculum Mills Project My excavations in the grounds of the American Academy in Rome have revealed part of a large 3rd-century A.D. water-mill complex, powered by the Aqua Traiana. The aqueduct itself was deliberately blocked during the 6th century A.D., apparently by Belisarius to deny the Goths entry into Rome during the siege of A.D. 537. Excavation is now completed and a preliminary report appeared in Forma Urbis (February 2000), and an interim report in Memoirs of the American Academy at Rome 45 (2001).

Euesperides, Benghazi, Libya (directed jointly by myself and Paul Bennett, Canterbury Archaeological Trust). This excavation of a Greek colony in Libya, occupied from the 6th-3rd centuries B.C., is a rare example of stratigraphic excavation of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic mud-brick structures; the site also includes housing, part of the town defences, quarry/ditch, and rock-cut tombs. Excavations are focusing on a large early Hellenistic building with a pebble and tesserae mosaic floor, on buildings adjoining the eastern defences of the city, and on the evidence for the production of purple dye from the murex shellfish. A programme of ceramic analysis and quantification suggests high levels of trading contact with both Greek and Punic areas of the Mediterranean. Interim reports have appeared annually in Libyan Studies since 1999. Excavation is now completed and work is proceeding on study of the finds.

Fezzan Project (directed by Dr David Mattingly, School of Archaeological Studies, Leicester). Excavation and survey in and around the Garamantian capital of Germa (ancient Garama) in the Fezzan (southwestern Libya), an important oasis zone on trans-Saharan trade routes. The project includes landscape survey in the surrounding area of the Wadi el-Agial, to investigate Garamantian settlement and foggara agriculture, and trading links with other civilisations, especially Roman Tripolitania. My research focused on the foggara irrigation systems, and has been published in The Archaeology of Fazzan vol. 1.

El Anderin, Syria (directed by Dr Marlia Mango, St John's College, Oxford). Excavations at El Anderin, the ancient Androna in northern Syria are concentrating on a set of Byzantine baths; my role in the project has been investigation of the water supply systems both for the site itself and for surrounding agriculture. Fieldwork identified a number of foggara or qanat systems (underground irrigation channels), running for many kilometres and feeding open-air basins of apparently Roman or Byzantine date.

Jerba Project, Tunisia (directed by Prof. Renata Holod, Pennsylvania, and Prof. Lisa Fentress, Rome). Field survey and excavation on the island of Jerba, aiming to understand the history of the island from Punic to early modern times. My work has concentrated on the water supply of the Roman town of Meninx, which was found to have four small-scale aqueducts, and several complexes of reservoir cisterns.

Sangro Valley Project (directed by Dr John Lloyd and Dr Gary Lock, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, and Dr Neil Christie, University of Leicester). Assistant Director of a landscape archaeology project in a river valley in central Italy. This is a multi-period research project, with a particular interest in the Samnite, Roman and Early Medieval periods, and combines field survey and excavation with ethno-archaeological enquiry, using GIS for data analysis.

Yeronisos Island Expedition (directed by Prof. Joan Connelly, New York University). In 2001 I conducted a study of the island’s rainwater collection cisterns and water supply. A report has appeared in Reports of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, 2002.

Thamusida, Morocco (directed by Prof. Emanuele Papi, Siena). In September 2001 I conducted a study of the water supply of the Roman town of Thamusida (Sidi Ali ben Ahmed) in Morocco, concluding that the town must have been supplied by a previously unknown aqueduct from low hills to the south-south-east of the town.

I have also been involved in the Leptiminus Archaeological Project in Tunisia, conducting a structural survey and examining the town's water-supply.

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Publications

Books

1. Bowman, A. K. and Wilson, A. I. (eds) (2009), Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems, Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199562596

Articles and book chapters:

61. Wilson, A. I. “Indicators for Roman economic growth: a response to Walter Scheidel”, JRA 22 (2009): 71-82.

60. Wilson, A. I. and Schörle, K., “A baker’s funerary relief from Rome”, Papers of the British School at Rome 77 (2009): 101-123.

59. Bowman, A. K. and Wilson, A. I. “Quantifying the Roman economy: integration, growth, decline?”, in Wilson, A. I. and Bowman, A. K. (eds), Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems, Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2009): 3-84.

http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199562596

58. Wilson, A. I. “Approaches to quantifying Roman trade”, in Wilson, A. I. and Bowman, A. K. (eds), Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems, Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy 1. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2009): 213-49.

http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199562596

57. Wilson, A. I. “Water supply in the Roman period: aqueducts and cisterns,” In E. Fentress, A. Drine, and R. Holod (eds) An Island through time: Jerba studies Vol. 1, The Punic and Roman periods, JRA Supplement 71. Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Journal of Roman Archaeology (2009): 177-87.

56. Wilson, A. I. “Meninx VI: sondage across the line of aqueducts 1 and 2,” In E. Fentress, A. Drine, and R. Holod (eds) An Island through time: Jerba studies Vol. 1, The Punic and Roman periods, JRA Supplement 71. Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Journal of Roman Archaeology (2009).

55. Wilson, A. I. “Villas, horticulture and irrigation infrastructure in the Tiber Valley,” in F. Coarelli and H. Patterson (eds.) Mercator Placidissimus: The Tiber Valley in Antiquity. New research in the upper and middle river valley. (Proceedings of the Conference held at the British School at Rome, 27-28 Feb. 2004). Rome, Edizioni Quasar (2009): 731-68.

54. Wilson, A. I. “The problem of water supply”. In A. Akerraz and E. Papi (eds) Sidi Ali ben Ahmed - Thamusida I, I contesti. Rome, Edizioni Quasar (2008): 51-61.

53. Wilson, A. I. “Economy and trade”, in E. Bispham (ed.) The Short Oxford History of Europe. Vol. 2: Roman Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press (2008): 170-202.

52. Wilson, A. I. and Tébar Megías, E. “Purple dye production at Hellenistic Euesperides (Benghazi, Libya)”, in J. Napoli (ed.), Ressources et activités maritimes des Peuples de l'Antiquité, Actes du Colloque international de Boulogne-sur-Mer, 12, 13 et 14 mai 2005, Boulogne-sur-Mer (2008): 231-8.

51. Wilson, A. I. “Site recovery rates and the ancient population of the Biferno Valley”, in G. Lock and A. Faustoferri (eds) Archaeology and Landscape in Central Italy. Papers in Memory of John A. Lloyd, Oxford University School of Archaeology Monographs, 69. Oxford, School of Archaeology, (2008): 233-53

50. Wilson, A. I. “Hydraulic Engineering”, in J. P. Oleson (ed.) Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2008): 285-318.

49. Wilson, A. I. “Machines”, in J. P. Oleson (ed.) Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2008): 337-66.

48. Wilson, A. I. “Large-scale manufacturing, standardization, and trade”, in J. P. Oleson (ed.) Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2008): 393-417.

47. Wilson, A. I. “The castra of Frontinus”, in A. Leone, D. Palombi and S. Walker (eds) Res bene gestae. Richerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby (Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae, Supplementum IV). Roma, Quasar (2007): 439-44.

46. Wilson, A. I. “The Metal Supply of the Roman Empire”, in E. Papi (ed.) Supplying Rome and the Roman Empire (JRA Supplement 69). Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Journal of Roman Archaeology (2007): 109-25.

45. Wilson, A. I. “Fish-salting workshops in Sabratha”, in L. Lagóstena, D. Bernal and A. Aréval (eds) Cetariae 2005. Salsas y Salazones de Pescado en Occidente durante la Antigüedad. Actas del Congreso Internacional (Cádiz, 7-9 de noviembre de 2005). (British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1686), Archaeopress, Oxford (2007): 173-81.

44. Wilson, A. I. “Urban development in the Severan Empire”, in S. C. R. Swain, S. J. Harrison and J. Elsner (eds) Severan Culture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2007): 290-326.

43. Wilson, A. I. “The economic impact of technological advances in the Roman construction industry”, in E. Lo Cascio (ed.) Innovazione tecnica e progresso economico nel mondo romano. (Pragmateiai). Bari, Edipuglia 2006: 225-36.

42. Wilson, A. I. “New light on a Greek city: archaeology and history at Euesperides,” in E. Fabbricotti and O. Menozzi (eds.) Cirenaica: studi, scavi e scoperte. Atti del X Convegno di Archeologia cirenaica, Chieti 24-26 novembre 2003 (BAR International Series) Oxford, 2006 : 141-152.

41. Wilson, A. I. “The spread of foggara-based irrigation in the ancient Sahara”, in D.J. Mattingly, S. McLaren, E. Savage, Y. al-Fasatwi and K. Gadgood (eds) The Libyan Desert: Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage. London, 2006: 205-16.

40. Wilson, A. I. “Une cité grecque de Libye: fouilles d’Euhésperidès (Benghazi)”, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, novembre-décembre 2003 [2005], 1648-1675.

39. Wilson, A. I. “Foggara irrigation, early state formation and Saharan trade: the Garamantes of Fazzan”, in Schriftenreihe der Frontinus Gesellschaft 26, Internationales Frontinus-Symposium, Wasserversorgung aus Qanaten – Qanate als Vorbilder im Tunnelbau, 2.-5. Oktober 2003, Walferdange, Luxemburg (2005): 223-234.

38. Wilson, A. I. “Romanizing Baal: the art of Saturn worship in North Africa”, in Proceedings of the 8th International Colloquium on Problems of Roman Provincial Art, Zagreb 2003 (Opuscula archaeologica: Dissertationes et Monographiae). Zagreb 2005.

37. Wilson, A. I. “Archaeological evidence for textile production and dyeing in Roman North Africa”, in C. Alfaro, J. P. Wild and B. Costa (eds) Purpureae Vestes. Textiles y tintes del Mediterráneo en época romana. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valencia, Valencia 2004: 155-64.

36. Wilson, A. I. “Cyrenaica and the late antique economy”, Ancient West and East 3.1 (2004): 143-54.

35. Bennett, P. Wilson, A. I., Buzaian, A. M., Kattenberg, A. “The effects of recent storms on the exposed coastline of Tocra”, Libyan Studies 35 (2004): 113-22.

34. Drake, N., Wilson, A., Pelling, R., White, K., Mattingly, D. and Black, S. “Water table decline, springline desiccation and the early development of irrigated agriculture in the Wadi al-Ajal, Libyan Fazzan”, Libyan Studies 35 (2004): 95-112.

33. Wilson, A. I. “Classical water technology in the early Islamic world”, in C. Bruun and A. Saastamoinen (eds), Technology, ideology, water: from Frontinus to the Renaissance and beyond (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 31), Roma, 2004: 115-41.

32. Mattingly, D. J. and Wilson, A. I. “Farming the Sahara: the Garamantian contribution in Southern Libya”, in M. Liverani (ed.) Arid Lands in Roman Times. Papers from the International Conference (Rome, July 9^th-10^th 2001), (Arid Zone Archaeology Monographs 4), Firenze (2003): 37-50.

31. Wilson, A. I. “The archaeology of the Roman fullonica”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 16.2 (2003): 442-6.

30. Wilson, A. I. “Late antique water-mills on the Palatine”, Papers of the British School at Rome 71 (2003): 85-109.

29. Wilson, A. I., with Mattingly, D. J. “Irrigation technologies: foggaras, wells and field systems”, in D.J. Mattingly (ed.) The Archaeology of Fazzan, vol. I, Synthesis, Society for Libyan Studies, London (2003): 235-78.

28. Wilson, A. I. “Opus reticulatum panels in the Severan Basilica at Lepcis Magna.” Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya 18 (2003): 369-79.

27. Wilson, A. I. “Machines, power and the ancient economy.” Journal of Roman Studies 92 (2002): 1-32.

[this article is reviewed, in Hungarian, in Klio 2004/3, p. 30 ff: A. Wilson: Gépek, energia és az ókori gazdaság (Kerepeszki Róbert)]

26. Wilson, A. I. “Urban production in the Roman world: the view from North Africa.” Papers of the British School at Rome 70 (2002): 231-73.

25. Connelly, J. B. and Wilson, A. I. “Hellenistic and Byzantine cisterns on Geronisos Island”, Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus 2002: 269-92.

24. Bell, T., Wilson, A. I. and Wickham, A. J. “Tracking the Samnites: landscape and communications routes in the Sangro Valley, Italy.” American Journal of Archaeology 106.2 (April 2002): 169-86.

23. Wilson, A. I. “Marine resource exploitation in the cities of coastal Tripolitania”, in M. Khanoussi, P. Ruggeri and C. Vismara (eds) L'Africa Romana XIV. Carocci di Roma, Roma 2002, volume 1: 429-436.

22. Wilson, A. I. “The water-mills on the Janiculum”, Memoirs of the American Academy at Rome 45 (2001): 219-246.

21. Wilson, A. I. “Aerial photographs of Sabratha and Garian”, Libyan Studies 32 (2001): 107-113.

20. Wilson, A. I. “Water-mills at Amida: Ammianus Marcellinus 18.8.11”, Classical Quarterly 51.1 (2001): 231-6.

19. Wilson, A. I. “Urban economies of late antique Cyrenaica”, in S. Kingsley and M. Decker (eds.), Economy and exchange in the East Mediterranean during late antiquity. Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2001: 28-43.

18. Wilson, A. I. “Incurring the wrath of Mars: sanitation and hygiene in Roman North Africa”, in G. C. M. Jansen (ed.) Cura Aquarum in Sicilia. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress on the History of Water Management and Hydraulic Engineering in the Mediterranean Region. Syracuse, May 16-22, 1998 (Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot bevordering der kennis van de Antieke Beschaving te 's-Gravenhage  Supplement 6), Stichtung BABESCH, Leiden, 2000 [2001]: 307-312.

17. Wilson, A. I. “Urban water storage, distribution and usage in Roman North Africa”, in A. O. Koloski-Ostrow (ed.), Water use and hydraulics in the Roman city (Archaeological Institute of America Colloquia and Conference Papers, New series, 3), Kendall Hunt, Boston MA, 2001: 83-96.

16. Wilson, A. I. “Roman water technology and usage [An epilogue: where to go from here? Future courses for water studies]”, in A. O. Koloski-Ostrow (ed.), Water use and hydraulics in the Roman city (Archaeological Institute of America Colloquia and Conference Papers, New series, 3), Kendall Hunt, Boston MA, 2001: 101-4.

15. Wilson, A. I. “Ti. Cl. Felix and the date of the Leptiminus East Baths”, in L. M. Stirling, D. J. Mattingly and N. Ben Lazreg (ed.) Leptiminus (Lamta): a Roman port city in Tunisia. Report no. 2 (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement), Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 2001: 25-28.

14. Bennett, P., Wilson, A. I. and Buzaian, A. M. “Euesperides, the first Benghazi”, in N. Higham (ed.) Archaeology of the Roman Empire: a tribute to the life and works of Professor Barri Jones, Archaeopress, Oxford, 2001: 219-236.

13. Wilson, A. I. “Foggaras in the land of the Garamantes (Fezzan, Libya)”, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Qanat, Yazd, May 2000, volume 4, English Papers. Yazd, 2000.

12. Wilson, A. I. “Timgad and textile production”, in J. Salmon and D.J. Mattingly (eds.), Economies beyond agriculture (Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society), Routledge, London, 2000: 271-296.

11. Wilson, A. I. “Mulini, acquedotti e assedi sul Gianicolo”, Forma Urbis 5.2 (Febbraio 2000): 32-37.

10. Wilson, A. I. “Industrial uses of water in the ancient world”, in Ö. Wikander (ed.) Ancient water technology (Technology and change in history 2). E. J. Brill, Leiden, 2000: 127-149.

9. Wilson, A. I. “Drainage and sanitation”, in Ö. Wikander (ed.) Ancient water technology (Technology and change in history 2). E. J. Brill, Leiden, 2000: 151-179.

8. Wilson, A. I. “Land drainage”, in Ö. Wikander (ed.) Ancient water technology (Technology and change in history 2). E. J. Brill, Leiden, 2000: 308-317.

7. Wilson, A. I. “Deliveries extra urbem: aqueducts and the countryside”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 12.1 (1999): 314-331.

6. Wilson, A. I. “Commerce and industry in Roman Sabratha”, Libyan Studies 30 (1999): 29-52.

5. Wilson, A. I. “Molinae”, in E. M. Steinby (ed.) Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae vol. 5. Roma, Quasar, 1999: 277.

4. Wilson, A. I. “Water-supply in ancient Carthage,” in Carthage papers: The early colony's economy, water supply, a private bath, and the mobilization of state olive oil, (JRA Supplement 28), Portsmouth, Rhode Island 1998: 65-102

3. Wilson, A. I. “Water-mills in North Africa and the development of the horizontal water-wheel”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 8 (1995): 499-510.

2. Thomas, R. G. and Wilson, A.I. “Water supply for Roman farms in Latium and South Etruria”, Papers of the British School at Rome 62 (1994): 139-196.

1. Wilson, A. I. “Running water and social status in North Africa”, in North Africa from Antiquity to Islam, edd. M. Horton and T. Wiedemann, Centre for Mediterranean Studies, Bristol, 1995: 52-56.

Contributions to multi-authored fieldwork reports:

17. Mattingly, D., Lahr, M. M. and Wilson, A. I. “DMP V: Investigations in 2009 of Cemeteries and Related Sites on the West Side of the Taqallit Promontory,” Libyan Studies 40 (2009): 95-131.

16. Mattingly, D. J. and Edwards, D. N. (with contributions from P. Balcombe, T. Barnett, C. M. Daniels, J. Dore, J. Hawthorne, A. Leone, P. Newson, T. Reynolds and A. Wilson) “The Archaeology of Fazzan: Site Gazetteer”, in D.J. Mattingly (ed.) The Archaeology of Fazzan, vol. II, Site Gazetteer, Pottery and other Survey Finds, Society for Libyan Studies, London (2007): 1-302.

15. Wilson, A. I., Bennett, P., Buzaian, A. M., Cherstich, L., Found, B., Göransson, K., Holman, J., Lane, R., Morley, G., Russell, B., Swift, K., Vaughan-Williams, A. and Zimi, E. “Euesperides 2006: Preliminary report on the Spring 2006 Season”, Libyan Studies 37 (2006): 117-157.

14. Wilson, A. I., Bennett, P., Buzaian, A. M., Found, B., Göransson, K., Guinness, A., Hardy, J., Holman, J., Kattenberg, A., Morley, G., al-Mugasbi, M., Swift, K., Vaughan-Williams, A., Wootton, W. and Zimi, E. “Euesperides 2005: Preliminary report on the Spring 2005 Season”, Libyan Studies 36 (2005 [2006]): 135-182.

13. Wilson, A. I., Bennett, P., Buzaian, A. M., Fell, V., Found, B., Göransson, K., Guinness, A., Hardy, J., Harris, K., Helm, R., Kattenberg, A., Tébar Megias, E., Morley, G., Murphy, A., Swift, K., Twyman, J., Wootton, W. and Zimi, E. “Euesperides (Benghazi): Preliminary report on the Spring 2004 Season”, Libyan Studies 35 (2004): 149-90.

12. Wilson, A. I., Bennett, P., Buzaian, A. M., Buttrey, T., Fell, V., Found, B., Göransson, K., Guinness, A., Hardy, J., Harris, K., Helm, R., Kattenberg, A., Morley, G., Swift, K., Wootton, W. and Zimi, E. (2003) “Euesperides (Benghazi): Preliminary report on the Spring 2003 Season”. Libyan Studies 34: 191-228.

11. Wilson, A. I., Bennett, P., Buzaian, A. M., Buttrey, T., Göransson, K., Hall, C., Kattenberg, A., Scott, R., Swift, K. and Zimi, E. “Euesperides (Benghazi): Preliminary report on the Spring 2002 season.” Libyan Studies 33 (2002): 85-123.

10. Wilson, A. I., Bennett, P., Buzaian, A. M., Fell, V., Göransson, K., Green, C., Hall, C., Helm, R., Kattenberg, A., Swift, K. and Zimi, E. “Euesperides (Benghazi): Preliminary report on the Spring 2001 season.” Libyan Studies 32 (2001): 155-77.

9. Bennett, P., Wilson, A. I., Buzaian, A., Hamilton, K., Thorpe, D., Robertson, D. and Zimi, E., “Euesperides (Benghazi): a preliminary report on the Spring 2000 season”, Libyan Studies 31 (2000), 121-143.

8. Mattingly, D.J., al-Mashai, M., Balcombe, P., Barnett, T., Brooks, N., Cole, F., Dore, J., Drake, N., Edwards, D., Hawthorne, J., Helm, R., Leone, A., McLaren, S., Pelling, R., Preston, J., Reynolds, T., Townsend, A.., Wilson, A.I. and White, K., “The Fezzan Project 2000: preliminary report on the fourth season of work”, Libyan Studies 31 (2000), 103-120.

7. Wilson, A. I., Bennett, P., Buzaian, A. M., Ebbinghaus, S., Halliwell, M., Hamilton, K., Kattenberg, A. and Zimi, E., “Urbanism and economy at Euesperides (Benghazi): a preliminary report on the 1999 season”, Libyan Studies 30 (1999): 147-168.

6. Mattingly, D.J., al-Mashai, M., Balcombe, P., Drake, N., Knight, S., McLaren, S., Pelling, R., Reynolds, T., Thomas, D., Wilson, A.I. and White, K., “The Fezzan Project 1999: preliminary report on the third season of work”, Libyan Studies 30 (1999): 129-145.

5. D. J. Mattingly et al., “The Fezzan Project I: research goals, methodologies and results of the 1997 season,” Libya Antiqua, n.s. 3 (1998): 175-99.

4. D. J. Mattingly et al., “The Fezzan Project 1997: methodologies and results of the first season,” Libyan Studies 28 (1997): 11-25.

3. D. J. Mattingly et al., “The Fezzan Project 1998: preliminary report on the second season of work,” Libyan Studies 29 (1998): 115-44.

2. J. A. Lloyd et al., “Excavations at Euesperides (Benghazi): an interim report on the 1998 season,” Libyan Studies 29 (1998): 145-68.

1. J. A. Lloyd et al., “From the mountain to the plain: landscape evolution in the Abruzzo. An interim report on the Sangro Valley Project (1994-5),” Papers of the British School at Rome 65 (1997), 1-57.

Reviews:

13. A. I. Wilson (2006) “Fishy business: Roman exploitation of marine resources”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 19.2: 525-37.

12. A. I. Wilson (2006) “Water for the Pompeians. Review of C. Ohlig, De Aquis Pompeiorum. Das Castellum Aquae in Pompeji: Herkunft, Zuleitung und Verteilung des Wassers”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 19.2: 501-8.

11. A. I. Wilson (2006) Review of B. Burnham and H. Burnham, Dolaucothi-Pumsaint: Survey and Excavations at a Roman Gold-mining Complex 1987–1999, Britannia 37: 497–9.

10. Wilson, A. I. Review of H. Slim. P. Trousset, R. Paskoff and A. Oueslati , Le littoral de la Tunisie : Étude géoarchéologique et historique, Études d'Antiquités africaines (Paris 2004) for Libyan Studies 36 (2005 [2006]): 184-6.

9. Wilson, A. I. “Tuscan Landscapes: surveying the Albegna Valley. Review of: Andrea Carandini and Franco Cambi (eds), with MariaGrazia Celuzza and Elizabeth Fentress. Paesaggi d'Etruria. Valle dell'Albegna, Valle d'Oro, Valle del Chiarone, Valle del Tafone (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2002)” Journal of Roman Archaeology 17.2 (2004): 569-76.

8. Wilson, A. I. “Detritus, disease and death in the city. Review of: X. Dupré Raventos and J.-A. Remolà (eds) Sordes Urbis. La eliminición de residuos en la ciudad romana (Roma, 2000), and V. M. Hope and E. Marshall (eds) Death and disease in the ancient city (London and New York, 2000)” Journal of Roman Archaeology 15.2 (2002): 479-84.

7. Wilson, A. I. “Watervoorziening in Rome. Review of : Gerda de Kleijn, The water supply of ancient Rome. City area, water and population (Amsterdam 2001).” Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 115 no. 2 (2002): 285-7.

6. Wilson, A. I. Review of M. de Vos (ed.), Rus Africum. Terra acqua olio nell’Africa settentrionale, for Libyan Studies 32 (2001): 186-8.

5. Wilson, A. I. “The aqueducts of Italy and Gaul”. Review of G. Bodon et al., Utilitas necessaria: sistemi idraulichi nell’Italia romana (Milano 1994) and R. Bedon (ed.) Les aqueducs de la Gaule romaine et des regions voisines (Caesarodunum 31, Limoges 1997), for Journal of Roman Archaeology 13.2 (2000): 597-604.

4. Wilson, A. I. “Digging in Algeria.” Review of A. Groslambert (ed.), L'archéologie algérienne de 1895 à 1915 (Lyons 1997), for The Classical Review n.s. 49.1 (1999): 224-5.

3. Wilson, A. I. “Dougga.” Review of M. Khanoussi, L. Maurin (edd.), Dougga (Thugga). Études épigraphiques (Paris, 1997), for The Classical Review n.s. 49.2 (1999): 536-7.

2. Wilson, A. I. Review of D. J. Mattingly, Tripolitania, for Libyan Studies 28 (1997): 71-3.

1. Wilson, A. I. Review of H. Broise and Y. Thébert, Les Thermes Memmiens, and H. Evans, Water Distribution in Ancient Rome, for Journal of Roman Studies 85 (1995): 312.

Forthcoming:

Mattingly, D., al-Aghab, S., Ahmed, M., Moussa, F., Sterry, M. and Wilson, A. (with contributions by F. Cole, V. Leitch, A. Radini, T. Savage, K. Schörle and D. Veldhuis), (forthcoming 2010) “DMP X: Survey and Landscape Conservation Issues around the Taqallit headland”, Libyan Studies 41 (2010).

Tébar Megias, E. and Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming) “Classical and Hellenistic textile production at Euesperides (Benghazi, Libya)”. In C. Alfaro (ed.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Mediterranean Ancient World, 24-26 November 2005, Athens, Greece.

Wilson, A. I., Schörle, K. and Rice, C. (forthcoming), “Roman ports and Mediterranean connectivity”. In S. Keay (ed.), Portus and the Ports of the Roman Mediterranean}, Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome. British School at Rome London.

Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming) “Developments in Mediterranean shipping and maritime trade from 200 BC to AD 1000”. In D. Robinson and A. Wilson (eds), Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean. Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Oxford.

Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming) “The economic influence of developments in maritime technology in antiquity”. In W. V. Harris (ed.), Maritine Technology in the Ancient Economy: Ship Design and Navigation.

Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming) “Trading across the Syrtes: Euesperides and the Punic world”, in J. Prag and J. Quinn (eds), The Hellenistic West. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming) “Punic and Latin inscriptions in Roman Tripolitania: function and display” in A. Mullen and P. James (eds), Multilingualism in the Greco-Roman worlds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Bowman, A. K. and Wilson, A. I. (eds) (forthcoming), Settlement, Urbanisation and Population, Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy 2. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming) “City sizes and urbanisation in the Roman Empire”. In A. K. Bowman and A. I. Wilson (eds), Settlement, Urbanisation and Population, Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy 2. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Spain, R. J. and Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming) “Discussion and parallels”, in The Romano-British Site at Ickham, Kent, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, Canterbury.

Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming), “Urination and defecation Roman-style”, in Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Gemma C. M. Jansen, Eric M. Moormann (eds), Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History. BABesch Supplement. Leiden.

Flohr, M. and Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming), “The economy of ordure”, in Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Gemma C.M. Jansen, Eric M. Moormann (eds), Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History. BABesch Supplement. Leiden.

Wilson, A. I. (forthcoming) “Water supply on Jerba in the post-Roman period”, in E. Fentress, R. Holod and A. Drine (eds) An Island through time: Jerba studies Vol. 2.

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Teaching and Supervision Interests

Roman Architecture; Cities and Settlements of the Roman Empire, the Economy of the Roman World, Ancient Technology, Roman North Africa, Roman Italy.

D. Phil. Theses supervised

Completed:

Francis Morris (2010), North Sea and Channel Connectivity during the Late Iron Age and Roman Period (175/150 BC – AD 409)

Benjamin Russell (2009), Sculpted stone and the Roman economy: 100 BC-AD 300

Kristina Glicksman (2009), The economy of Roman Dalmatia

Dragana Mladenović (2009), Roman Moesia Superior: the creation of a new provincial entity and processes of multicultural adjustment

Luca Cherstich (2008), The southern necropolis of Cyrene

Matthew Symonds (2008), The design and purpose of Roman fortlets in the north-western frontier provinces of the Empire

Zena Kamash (2006), The management and control of water in the Roman Near East, 63 b.c. – a.d. 636

Keith Swift (2006), Classical and Hellenistic coarse pottery from Euesperides (Benghazi, Libya): Archaeological and petrological approaches to production and inter-regional distribution

James Beresford (2005), A reassessment of the ancient sailing season: the case for wintertime seafaring on the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean

Alfred Hirt (2004), Mines and quarries in the Roman Empire: Organizational aspects 27 BC – AD 235.

Neil Stewart (2002), The technology and control of mining in Roman Britain.

In progress:

Jonathan Cole, The technology and design of the harbour at Alexandria

Girolamo F. De Simone, Beyond the Bay of Naples: The environs of Vesuvius from the mesogaia to the dioceses

Jack Hanson, The urban system of the Roman Empire

Anna Kouremenos, Roman influence on private life in Crete

Victoria Leitch, Production and trade of Roman and Late Roman North African cookwares

Candace Rice, Ports, Emporia and the Growth of the Roman Economy 166 BC – AD 300

Supervised 2007-2008:

Stacey McGowen (2009), The language of images in the northwest Roman provinces: Public and sacred monuments of Gallia, Germania and Britannia

Supervised Michaelmas 2007 and Michaelmas 2009:

Simon Barker, Spolia and Reuse in Late Republican and Imperial art and architecture

Supervised Michaelmas 2007:

Saskia Stevens (2009) City boundaries and urban expansion in Roman Italy, first century BC - second century AD

Supervised 2006-2007:

Courtney Ward, Gender and Material Culture in Early Roman Britain

Supervised 2003-2004:

William Wootton (2006) Mosaic production

Further information on Roman Archaeology at Oxford

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Links

University of Oxford

Classical Archaeology at Oxford

Institute of Archaeology

School of Archaeology

All Souls College

Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology

Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents

Weblearn – Faculty of Classics (Oxford students and staff only)

Roman Archaeology Conference 2010

ROMARCH (Internet resources to do with Roman Archaeology)

Perseus

Lacus Curtius (lots of resources on the Roman world)

Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg

Roman Provincial Coinage (RPC Online)

Roman law

The Tertullian Project

Africa Antiqua (research on Roman North Africa)

Tabbourt (archaeology of Roman North Africa

The Society for Libyan Studies

Amphorae – a Digital Resource (Southampton project; detailed catalogue of amphorae)

Amphoras project

Amphoreus (bulletin of Greek amphora stamps, and others up to 4^th c. AD)

Postherd: Atlas of Roman pottery

Instrumentum (craft production in the Roman world)

Greek and Roman Science and Technology (Tracy Rihll’s website with useful definitions and links to some ancient texts and translations)

Roman Technology (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – some useful material and links, but apparently not updated since 1997)

Ancient Roman Technology (site with some more useful links)

Roman aqueducts

Frontinus-Gesellschaft e.V. (a German society for the history of water technology)

Deutsche Wasserhistorische Gesellschaft e. V. (another German society for the history of water technology)

Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Project (Severan Marble Map of Rome)

Archaeology: An Introduction (Kevin Greene’s online companion to his book)

Ostia – Harbour City of Ancient Rome (excellent website on Ostia)

Archaeological publishers and journals

TOCS-IN Project (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists)

JStor

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This page last modified 21^st August 2010.

KEYWORDS: Roman archaeology, Roman architecture, water-supply, water-power, water-mills, aqueducts, irrigation, drainage, qanats, foggaras, sanitation, ancient technology, Roman economy, North Africa, Syria, Italy, Euesperides, Rome.