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Walter Scheidel, ed., The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past

Issue: Vol 4 No. 2 (2017)

Journal: Journal of Cognitive Historiography

Subject Areas: Ancient History Cognitive Studies Archaeology

DOI: 10.1558/jch.37092

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Walter Scheidel, ed., The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018), 280 pp. £27.00/$35.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978-0-69116-256-0.

Author: Tomáš Glomb

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Scheidel, Walter. 2001. Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt. Leiden and Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004350946

Scheidel, Walter. 2012. “Physical Well-Being”. In The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy, ed. Walter Scheidel, 321–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139030199.020

Scheidel, Walter. 2014. “Evolutionary Psychology and the Historian”. The American Historical Review 119(5): 1563–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.5.1563

Scheidel, Walter. 2015. “Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World”. Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics. https://classics.stanford.edu/projects/orbis-stanford-geospatial-network-model-roman-world