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      The Roman Hinterland Project: Integrating Archaeological Field Surveys around Rome and Beyond

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          This article presents the background to and prospects for a new initiative in archaeological field survey and database integration. The Roman Hinterland Project combines data from the Tiber Valley Project, Roman Suburbium Project, and the Pontine Region Project into a single database, which the authors believe to be one of the most complete repositories of data for the hinterland of a major ancient metropolis, covering nearly 2000 years of history. The logic of combining these databases in the context of studying the Roman landscape is explained and illustrated with analyses that show their capacity to contribute to major debates in Roman economy, demography, and the longue duréeof the human condition in a globalizing world.

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          Cet article présente le contexte et les perspectives d'une nouvelle initiative de recherche archéologique de terrain et d'intégration de bases de données. Le « Roman Hinterland Project » combine les données du « Tiber Valley Project », du « Roman Suburbium Project » et du « Pontine Region Project » dans une seule base de données, que nous considérons comme l'un des référentiels de données le plus complet pour l'arrière-pays d'une grande métropole sur près de 2000 ans d'histoire. Cet article expose la logique de la combinaison de ces bases de données dans le contexte de l'étude du paysage romain, et illustre avec plusieurs analyses sa capacité de contribuer aux grands débats concernant l'économie romaine, la démographie et la compréhension sur la longue durée de la condition humaine dans un monde globalisé. Translation by the authors.

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          Dieser Artikel beschreibt den Hintergrund und die Aussichten für eine neue Initiative in der archäologischen Felduntersuchung und Datenbankintegration. Das „Roman Hinterland Project“ kombiniert Daten aus dem „Tiber Valley-Project“, dem „Roman Suburbium Project“ und dem „Pontine Region Project“ in einer einzigen Datenbank, die unserer Ansicht nach eines der vollständigsten Datenbestände für das Hinterland einer großen Metropole in fast 2000 Jahren Geschichte darstellt. Die Verfasser betrachten die Logik der Kombination dieser Datenbanken im Kontext der Untersuchung der römischen Landschaft und zeigen mit mehreren Analysen das Potenzial für wichtige Debatten in der römischen Wirtschaft, Demografie und das Verständnis der longue duréedes menschlichen Zustands in einer globalisierenden Welt. Translation by the authors.

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              The data deluge

              Archaeology has wandered into exciting but daunting territory. It faces floods of new evidence about the human past that are largely digital, frequently spatial, increasingly open and often remotely sensed. The resulting terrain is littered, both with data that are wholly new and data that were long known about but previously considered junk. This paper offers an overview of this diluvian information landscape and aims to foster debate about its wider disciplinary impact. In particular, I would argue that its consequences: a) go well beyond the raw challenges of digital data archiving or manipulation and should reconfigure our analytical agendas; b) can legitimately be read for both utopian and dystopian disciplinary futures; and c) re-expose some enduring tensions between archaeological empiricism, comparison and theory-building.
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                Journal
                European Journal of Archaeology
                Eur. j. archaeol
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                1461-9571
                1741-2722
                May 2022
                December 09 2021
                May 2022
                : 25
                : 2
                : 238-258
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                10.1017/eaa.2021.51
                cc1837ea-8be6-4d68-8887-264ccf4016a2
                © 2022

                https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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