A system of ups and downs

Autor(en)

Dominik Hagmann

Abstrakt

This article addresses a notable gap in the scholarship on rural settlement in northeastern Noricum (today's Lower Austria/AUT), an area often overlooked despite its extensive archaeological sources. Employing underutilized data, the study scrutinizes settlement patterns in the Danube limes hinterland from the mid-1st to the late 5th c. CE. It identifies key centers - Arelape, Favianis, Augustianis, and Cetium - as essential nodes of functional regions in a diverse landscape of "integrated Roman rural complexes."However, there was a shift from diversity to more centralized settlement in Late Antiquity, signaling the extensive decline of rural structures. The article examines several factors contributing to this decrease within a "system of ups and downs,"including demographic changes, geopolitical crises, and climatic fluctuations. Crucially, it situates these developments within a broader systemic framework, positing a multi-causal, long-term decline. The study's findings provide vital insights into volatile societal changes and their implications for current global crises.

Organisation(en)

Forschungsverbund Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences (HEAS), Department für Evolutionäre Anthropologie

Journal

Journal of Roman Archaeology

ISSN

1047-7594

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759425000066

Publikationsdatum

2025

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601026 Virtuelle Archäologie, 601010 Klassische Archäologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Classics, Archaeology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Archaeology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/c637ce0c-d7bb-4bb0-8118-b92e72d2c792