John W Hanson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 112649 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John W Hanson |
| PRENOMES | John W |
| SOBRENOME | Hanson |
| ASSINATURA | HANSON J W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4480-4791 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Settlement scaling theory, aqueducts and the Roman Empire
Despite contemporary relevance in understanding how cities historically overcame demographic, social and economic constraints imposed by the lack of clean, fresh water, the value of estimating aqueduct delivery rates and their potential relationship with population size in the Roman Empire remains uncertain. Here, the authors use settlement scaling theory to examine recent statistics for city size and aqueduct capacity, revealing a systematic but…
New approaches to the architectural design, amenities, and function of macella
In recent years, scholars have drawn particular attention to the existence in the ancient world of permanent, specialized market buildings, macella or μάκɛλλοι , which offered dedicated facilities for the processing and sale of luxury commodities such as fish and meat. However, important questions remain about the typologies, architecture, and “end-users” of these structures. Here, I outline a basic model for how the total and average wealth and …
Estimating the ‘Missing’ Houses of Silchester
Estimating the numbers of residences, and thus the residential densities and populations, of ancient settlements remains a significant problem. This is true even for ‘greenfield’ sites due to the differential visibility of structures made of different materials in aerial and geophysical surveys. In this paper, we take advantage of statistical relationships among elements of the built environments of Roman cities in Britannia and more broadly acro…
Relating Scale and Heterogeneity
Although there has been increasing appreciation of the existence of non-linear relationships between aspects of the built environments of ancient settlements and their estimated populations, it is still often difficult to make meaningful comparisons between sites, given their wildly different sizes. Here, I begin by offering a detailed review of the evidence for scaling relationships within the Roman Empire, before showing how deviations from rel…
Scaling in Pompeii
There has recently been a great deal of interest in the effects of the sizes of communities on the social and economic conditions of settlements, drawing on theoretical and empirical work on complex systems. However, although it is clear that there is a series of relationships between the sizes of sites and their various attributes in a range of modern and non-modern contexts, it is not yet known whether these relationships extend to life within …
Reassessing the Capacities of Entertainment Structures in the Roman Empire
In recent years, scholars have become increasingly skeptical of the idea that there is any relationship between the capacities of entertainment structures such as theaters and amphitheaters and the populations of Graeco-Roman cities. In this article, we begin by offering a model of information percolation in cities grounded in settlement scaling theory. We then show that there is a systematic relationship between the capacities of both theaters a…
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Urban form, infrastructure and spatial organisation in the Roman Empire
A systematic method for estimating the populations of Greek and Roman settlements
The last few years have seen a growing interest in the urbanism of the Greek and Roman world. This has led to a consensus of sorts about some of its vital statistics, such as the sizes of the populations of the most important settlements and the size of the overall urban population, the urbanization rate (i.e., the share of individuals that lived in urban, rather than rural, contexts), and the total population. A good example comes from W. Scheid…
The Urban System of Roman Asia Minor and Wider Urban Connectivity
This chapter examines the urban system of Roman Asia. The distribution of urban sites indicates that a large proportion of Roman Asia was surveyed and controlled by urban centres, fairly evenly distributed across relief, but not across space, becoming sparser in the central plateau and east. The dense clustering of cities seems to reduce the span of control of individual cities within the region considerably, resulting in an average intercity dis…
The Malta Primary Literacy Value‐Added Project
The Malta Primary Literacy Value‐Added study was the outcome of a process of testing and matching at ages 9–10, the pupils in Maltese primary schools who were tested three years earlier, at ages 6–7. All primary schools in the island took part at both stages. Pupils were tested in both Maltese and English at both ages. In addition extensive data on pupils’ home background was collected at both ages and added to the individual test records. Some 4…
Baseline Fact-G score is a predictor of survival for advanced lung cancer
Migration, Jihad, and Muslim Authority in West Africa
Investigates Muslim politics and society in 19th-century West Africa
After the Jihad
Excavation of the hospital of St Giles by Brompton Bridge, North Yorkshire
Rescue excavation between 1988 and 1990 in advance of river erosion examined a substantial part of the small medieval rural hospital of St Giles by Brompton Bridge and later post-medieval farm. Established in the latter half of the twelfth century for the infirm, including lepers, the hospital layout consisted of a detached stone chapel adjacent to the river crossing, with a timber hall to the west. This hall was destroyed by fire, and a sequence…
After the Jihad
Excavations at Heslerton, North Yorkshire 1978–82
This report describes the excavations of a 4ha multi-period site situated in the parish of Heslerton, North Yorkshire, on the southern edge of the Vale of Pickering. The site came to light in 1977 and a rescue excavation project, sponsored by the Department of the Environment through North Yorkshire County Council, continued on a seasonal basis from 1978 until December 1982.Occupation at the site began during the late Mesolithic with a flint knap…
Is the School the Enemy of the Farm? The African Experience
Education and Power in Nigeria. A Study of University Students
Supply of Secondary Level Teachers in Africa
A systematic method for estimating the populations of Greek and Roman settlements
The last few years have seen a growing interest in the urbanism of the Greek and Roman world. This has led to a consensus of sorts about some of its vital statistics, such as the sizes of the populations of the most important settlements and the size of the overall urban population, the urbanization rate (i.e., the share of individuals that lived in urban, rather than rural, contexts), and the total population. A good example comes from W. Scheid…
Excavations at Heslerton, North Yorkshire 1978–82
This report describes the excavations of a 4ha multi-period site situated in the parish of Heslerton, North Yorkshire, on the southern edge of the Vale of Pickering. The site came to light in 1977 and a rescue excavation project, sponsored by the Department of the Environment through North Yorkshire County Council, continued on a seasonal basis from 1978 until December 1982.Occupation at the site began during the late Mesolithic with a flint knap…
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Urban form, infrastructure and spatial organisation in the Roman Empire
Excavation of the hospital of St Giles by Brompton Bridge, North Yorkshire
Rescue excavation between 1988 and 1990 in advance of river erosion examined a substantial part of the small medieval rural hospital of St Giles by Brompton Bridge and later post-medieval farm. Established in the latter half of the twelfth century for the infirm, including lepers, the hospital layout consisted of a detached stone chapel adjacent to the river crossing, with a timber hall to the west. This hall was destroyed by fire, and a sequence…
New approaches to the architectural design, amenities, and function of macella
In recent years, scholars have drawn particular attention to the existence in the ancient world of permanent, specialized market buildings, macella or μάκɛλλοι , which offered dedicated facilities for the processing and sale of luxury commodities such as fish and meat. However, important questions remain about the typologies, architecture, and “end-users” of these structures. Here, I outline a basic model for how the total and average wealth and …
Reassessing the Capacities of Entertainment Structures in the Roman Empire
In recent years, scholars have become increasingly skeptical of the idea that there is any relationship between the capacities of entertainment structures such as theaters and amphitheaters and the populations of Graeco-Roman cities. In this article, we begin by offering a model of information percolation in cities grounded in settlement scaling theory. We then show that there is a systematic relationship between the capacities of both theaters a…
Supply of Secondary Level Teachers in Africa
Education and Power in Nigeria. A Study of University Students
Is the School the Enemy of the Farm? The African Experience
Excavations at Heslerton, North Yorkshire 1978–82
This report describes the excavations of a 4ha multi-period site situated in the parish of Heslerton, North Yorkshire, on the southern edge of the Vale of Pickering. The site came to light in 1977 and a rescue excavation project, sponsored by the Department of the Environment through North Yorkshire County Council, continued on a seasonal basis from 1978 until December 1982.Occupation at the site began during the late Mesolithic with a flint knap…
After the Jihad
Excavation of the hospital of St Giles by Brompton Bridge, North Yorkshire
Rescue excavation between 1988 and 1990 in advance of river erosion examined a substantial part of the small medieval rural hospital of St Giles by Brompton Bridge and later post-medieval farm. Established in the latter half of the twelfth century for the infirm, including lepers, the hospital layout consisted of a detached stone chapel adjacent to the river crossing, with a timber hall to the west. This hall was destroyed by fire, and a sequence…
Migration, Jihad, and Muslim Authority in West Africa
Investigates Muslim politics and society in 19th-century West Africa
After the Jihad
Baseline Fact-G score is a predictor of survival for advanced lung cancer
The Malta Primary Literacy Value‐Added Project
The Malta Primary Literacy Value‐Added study was the outcome of a process of testing and matching at ages 9–10, the pupils in Maltese primary schools who were tested three years earlier, at ages 6–7. All primary schools in the island took part at both stages. Pupils were tested in both Maltese and English at both ages. In addition extensive data on pupils’ home background was collected at both ages and added to the individual test records. Some 4…
The Urban System of Roman Asia Minor and Wider Urban Connectivity
This chapter examines the urban system of Roman Asia. The distribution of urban sites indicates that a large proportion of Roman Asia was surveyed and controlled by urban centres, fairly evenly distributed across relief, but not across space, becoming sparser in the central plateau and east. The dense clustering of cities seems to reduce the span of control of individual cities within the region considerably, resulting in an average intercity dis…
A systematic method for estimating the populations of Greek and Roman settlements
The last few years have seen a growing interest in the urbanism of the Greek and Roman world. This has led to a consensus of sorts about some of its vital statistics, such as the sizes of the populations of the most important settlements and the size of the overall urban population, the urbanization rate (i.e., the share of individuals that lived in urban, rather than rural, contexts), and the total population. A good example comes from W. Scheid…
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Urban form, infrastructure and spatial organisation in the Roman Empire
Reassessing the Capacities of Entertainment Structures in the Roman Empire
In recent years, scholars have become increasingly skeptical of the idea that there is any relationship between the capacities of entertainment structures such as theaters and amphitheaters and the populations of Graeco-Roman cities. In this article, we begin by offering a model of information percolation in cities grounded in settlement scaling theory. We then show that there is a systematic relationship between the capacities of both theaters a…
Estimating the ‘Missing’ Houses of Silchester
Estimating the numbers of residences, and thus the residential densities and populations, of ancient settlements remains a significant problem. This is true even for ‘greenfield’ sites due to the differential visibility of structures made of different materials in aerial and geophysical surveys. In this paper, we take advantage of statistical relationships among elements of the built environments of Roman cities in Britannia and more broadly acro…
Relating Scale and Heterogeneity
Although there has been increasing appreciation of the existence of non-linear relationships between aspects of the built environments of ancient settlements and their estimated populations, it is still often difficult to make meaningful comparisons between sites, given their wildly different sizes. Here, I begin by offering a detailed review of the evidence for scaling relationships within the Roman Empire, before showing how deviations from rel…
Scaling in Pompeii
There has recently been a great deal of interest in the effects of the sizes of communities on the social and economic conditions of settlements, drawing on theoretical and empirical work on complex systems. However, although it is clear that there is a series of relationships between the sizes of sites and their various attributes in a range of modern and non-modern contexts, it is not yet known whether these relationships extend to life within …
New approaches to the architectural design, amenities, and function of macella
In recent years, scholars have drawn particular attention to the existence in the ancient world of permanent, specialized market buildings, macella or μάκɛλλοι , which offered dedicated facilities for the processing and sale of luxury commodities such as fish and meat. However, important questions remain about the typologies, architecture, and “end-users” of these structures. Here, I outline a basic model for how the total and average wealth and …
Settlement scaling theory, aqueducts and the Roman Empire
Despite contemporary relevance in understanding how cities historically overcame demographic, social and economic constraints imposed by the lack of clean, fresh water, the value of estimating aqueduct delivery rates and their potential relationship with population size in the Roman Empire remains uncertain. Here, the authors use settlement scaling theory to examine recent statistics for city size and aqueduct capacity, revealing a systematic but…
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