Ryan Youmans

[Michael Keane @keanem3]

Never realized how many people were poor in Rome. I guess its true, we do look through the eyes of the wealthy. #181roman #181greek

[Kristen Bryfogle @kbarchaeologist]

@elfstone1121 If trade occured, then farmers were not always living at subsistence level. They had surplus goods. #181greek

[Kristen Bryfogle @kbarchaeologist]

Surveyers usually look in country fields for tiles and pieces of plain pottery. If they find these, it indicates a potential farm. #181greek

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

site, but even showing the smallest post-holes." Surveying to find farmsites proves to be successful #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

"The geophysical results proved to be hyper-accurate, correctly pinpointing not only the general location of the major remains and the kiln-

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

"The Excavation of Pievina: The site had been located during field survey and subsequently subjected to geophysical survey." #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

Book titled "Late Roman Farmhouse at San Biagio" shows that research on Roman peasantry is increasing http://t.co/NXCFoC7HCK #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

Similar to the Villa of the Antonines project at MSU, Temple U is doing an excavation in Artena, Italy. http://t.co/7Clh8p6dc5 #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

"Excavating the Roman Peasant" suggests that identifying a farm site can be done successfully using textual sources. #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

#181roman and yet their textual traces are limited to a handful of laws, asides in agricultural handbooks, and some images (quote from text)

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

#181roman by some estimates the rural poor constituted some 90% of the overall Roman population

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

@verstrje2010 Not necessarily, but I do believe that literary sources are biased against non-elites thus making them less reliable #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

@verstrje2010 Less reliable, but because literacy among non-elites was extremely low it is hard to ignore these sources. #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

The excavations at Pievina have demonstrated that geophysical survey in this environment can predict the location and morphology #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

Does an increase in animal remains indicate a farmhouse? #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

Two factors — the slope and the nearby presence of groundwater — emerge as major factors in the site’s human history. #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

@verstrje2010 depending on what kind of farming equipment and how much of it you find will help identify if it comes from a farm. #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

Because a farmhouse has little inorganic material, i.e pottery or building material, locating remains is extremely difficult. #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

For example, how far away from a city and what geological landscape a site is located may give indications towards its identity. #181roman

[Ryan Youmans @RyanYoumans1]

A major factor to determining if farmhouses existed is not necessarily what you find on a site, but where the site is located. #181roman