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new bio-archaeological techniques reveal that skeletal signatures of childhood disease were twice as high in Victorian London than in Roman British cities. Dental records do reveal an alarming deterioration in oral health coincident with Roman rule. But in general, as Bowes puts it, “Oliver Twist had it worse”.
new bio-archaeological techniques reveal that skeletal signatures of childhood disease were twice as high in Victorian London than in Roman British cities. Dental records do reveal an alarming deterioration in oral health coincident with Roman rule. But in general, as Bowes puts it, “Oliver Twist had it worse”.
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The Romans’ relative good health probably had something to do with their diet. Here, it is the assumption that most scraped by on a subsistence level which new data consigns to history. In fact, Bowes calculates, even slaves enjoyed typical daily calorific intakes nearly twice the subsistence level. “The Colosseum was not built on 1,900 calories per day,” she quips.
Urban and rural diets were surprisingly rich and varied — bone analysis reveals a healthy mix of seafood, meat, dairy and legumes — even in the farthest-flung corners of the empire. The remains of one modest Wiltshire farm reveal consumption of Spanish olive oil and Italian wine.
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recensione FT https://archive.is/xMeh9#... del libro "Surviving Rome" di Kim Bowes che scrive che i romani, anche il 90% del sottotiolo, se la passava molto bene, anche gli schiavi, e tutti erano finanziariamente molto più avanzati di quanto si crede, cose che si studiano grazie ai papiri trovati in Eigtto e altri ritrovamenti recenti "They reveal that coins, which were once assumed to comprise the pinnacle of Roman monetary sophistication, represented only a tiny fraction of a vast and intricate web of account money, personal IOUs and trade credit that reached down to the lowest levels of society. Far from finance being the preserve of the elites, “the Roman world, it is now clear, was awash in borrowing”.
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