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Supplemental tables to Trentacoste, A. and Lodwick, L. (2023) Towards an agroecology of the Roman expansion: Republican agriculture and animal husbandry in context. In S. Bernard, L. Mignone and D. Padilla Peralta (eds), Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy, 400-200 BCE. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. The above chapter argues for the importance of farming regimes as a force that shaped Roman social and economic history, and it provides a first step towards an agroecology of the Roman expansion. It presents a new synthesis of archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological data from first-millennium BC Italy integrated with wider evidence for agricultural processing and rural production. Results indicate that production was motivated more by regional trajectories than by Roman political annexation, and that rural settlement changes did not have a major immediate impact on the bioarchaeological data considered. The paper discusses the socio-economic implications of these conclusions. Lastly, the chapter highlights key points of change alongside pathways for future research. The data analysed in the paper are contained in the attached supplemental tables, which summarise archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological data collected from published sources. Bibliographic details are included in the supplements. SuppTable01_Archbot: Supplemental Table 1, Archaeobotanical remains - presence/absence of archaeobotanical remains by site. Tenth century BC to first century AD. SuppTable02_Zooarch: Supplemental Table 2, Zooarchaeological remains - relative percentages of cattle, sheep/goat, and pigs by site. Quantified using NISP (Number of identified specimens). Middle Bronze Age to first century AD. This data is published open access to facilitate re-use. Please cite the chapter and the dataset if you use this data.

This dataset contains Online Supplements with zooarchaeological data from The Place of Palms at Aphrodisias. It supports the chapter: Trentacoste, A. (forthcoming) Faunal Remains from the Late Antique to Ottoman Periods. In Wilson, A. I. and Russell, B., The ‘Place of Palms’: An Urban Park at Aphrodisias. Results of The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden. The above chapter presents a zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal material from The Place of Palms, including figures, tables, discussion, and regional contextualisation. This online dataset contains supplemental materials relevant to this study: a full description of the recording methodology, the recorded faunal assemblage data, and summary tables with information on skeletal element abundance (quantified through the minimum number of elements (MNE) / minimum animal units (MAU)) and bone fusion. Full details on the recording methodology are given in Supplement 1, which also contains a description of the organisation of the data table containing the recorded faunal assemblage. Supplement 2 contains the complete faunal assemblage in tabular format, including measurements. Body part distribution for the main taxa with MNE and MAU counts is presented in Supplements 3–5. Bone fusion is quantified in Supplements 6–9. These tables are presented online to save space in the printed volume and to facilitate re-use. About zooarchaeological analysis at Aphrodisias: Faunal remains were excavated between 2012 and 2017 from ‘The Place of Palms’, an area within the urban centre of Aphrodisias, defined by a massive monumental pool. The pool functioned from its construction in the first century AD into Late Antiquity. With the decline of the late antique city, the pool was no longer maintained, and, from the seventh century AD, its basin progressively became filled by dumped materials and sedimentation. By the fifteenth century AD the basin of the pool was completely covered by siltation and sediment run-off, and an Ottoman village came to occupy the site. Animal remains were recovered from throughout this chronology, from Imperial Roman to modern times. As the first systemic analysis of faunal material from Aphrodisias for the Late Antique and later periods, this zooarchaeologial study focused on general patterns of animal exploitation over the long chronology of the assemblage. Faunal material was hand collected, save for a few contexts which were subject to flotation. The majority of the material came from Ottoman deposits (c. 1500 specimens identified to taxon and element). Late Antique contexts were also well represented (c. 600 specimens identified to taxon and element). The total number of quantified specimens (identified to taxon and element) was just over 2400. In addition to new data on the Ottoman period, notable finds include the disarticulated remains of at least seven Late Antique equids, an abundance of turtles (Mauremys sp.) found in Byzantine pool deposits, a series of rough Late Antique bone tools, possibly used as scrapers, and evidence for suid – especially wild boar – consumption in Ottoman times. For further details see the volume and chapter cited above. Links and related references: - http://aphrodisias.classics.ox.ac.uk/excsouthagora.html - Wilson, A., Russell, B., and Ward, A. 2016. ‘Excavations in an urban park (“South Agora”), 2012’ in R.R.R. Smith, J. Lenaghan, A. Sokolicek and K. Welch (eds.), Aphrodisias Papers 5: Excavation and Research at Aphrodisias, 2006-2012, Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 103, 77-90. - Robinson, M. 2016. 'The environmental archaeology of the South Agora Pool, Aphrodisias' in Smith R.R.R. Smith, J. Lenaghan, A. Sokolicek and K. Welch (eds) Aphrodisias Papers 5: Excavation and Research at Aphrodisias, 2006-2012, Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 103, 91-99 - Wilson, A. (2019). ‘Aphrodisias in the long sixth century’, in I. Jacobs and H. Elton (eds), Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century: Current Research and Future Directions. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 197–221.

The Maldives Heritage Survey aims to systematically inventory and document endangered tangible cultural heritage in the Maldives – including mosques, cemeteries, Buddhist temple ruins, and other historical structures and physical objects – through digital photography, laser scanning, 3D modelling, and GIS to create an open-access resource website and heritage database. The materials documented through this work are critically endangered, facing both natural and human threats that jeopardize the survival and accessibility of historical information for this vital node in pre-modern global economic and religious networks at the cross-roads of an interconnected Indian Ocean world. The project, based at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, is led by Dr Michael Feener and funded by Arcadia. Work in the country is done in partnership with the Maldives Department of Heritage (now National Center for Cultural Heritage) and with the support of Washington University’s SaieLab and the Earth Observatory of Singapore at Nanyang Technological University. Details on the data set and file structure are provided in a README file for this deposit

The Maritime Asia Heritage Survey works to systematically inventory and document endangered tangible cultural heritage in the Maldives and Indonesia – including historical structures, archaeological sites, manuscripts and physical objects. The documentation produced in the course of our work includes site, feature, and object records with geospatial data, digital photography, LiDAR point clouds, orthophotomaps, 3D models, CAD site plans and architectural elevations, IIIF digitized manuscripts, and oral history video interviews The materials documented through this work are critically endangered, facing both natural and human threats. Our work thus creates a digital archive of multimedia source material for the history of the Indian Ocean world. All data is also made open-access available on our project website: https://maritimeasiaheritage.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp The Maritime Asia Heritage Survey is based at Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies. It is led by Prof. R. Michael Feener (PI and Director), together with Dr Patrick Daly (Co-PI) and Prof. Noboru Ishikawa (Co-PI). The project is financially supported by the Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin (project number 4309). The MAHS Digital Heritage Documentation Lab is hosted by the Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Work in the Maldives is done in partnership with the Maldives National Center for Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Arts, Culture and Heritage, and in Indonesia with the Directorate General of Culture, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology.

This is the output of the Digital Editions course at Oxford University, a practical training course in creating a digital edition of an out of copyright text. I digitised a Victorian description of the Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. The museum presents a collection of items from a range of eras. A special aspect of this project is that the museum has remained much the same since Soane's death; in 1833, the founder John Soane secured the preservation of the collection and its presentation, through an Act of Parliament. Soane was an architect and teacher as well as a collector, and designed his museum for teaching, and included residential space and his architectural practice. The text of this edition was encoded using an XML editing software.

Supplements to Trentacoste, A. 2022. Chapter 19: Animal Remains from Vagnari: Bones and Shells. In M. Carroll (ed.), Archaeology in the Vicus at Vagnari. The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate in Southern Italy. Oxford: Archaeopress. This chapter presents the results of zooarchaeological analysis of bones and shells from 2013–2018 excavations at Vagnari, and compares results with those from MacKinnon’s (2011) study of animal remains from an adjacent area of the vicus excavated by A. Small. While the faunal assemblage proved to be modest in size, the recovered materials nonetheless provide a testament to diet, husbandry and hunting strategies, and even local pests in this area of Roman Italy. Contextualised with other zooarchaeological data from the region, zooarchaeological analysis at Vagnari offers new data and raises new questions on animal farming and the agricultural landscape of Puglia in Roman times. These supplements contain the complete recorded assemblage and associated context details and full details of the recording methodology.

This database transcribes data on goods exported from, and imported to, the island of Jamaica between circa 1800 and 1845, including data - where available - on the types of items, the ports of destination (for exports) and the ports of receipt (for imports). The data was collected from tables produced by the colonial House of Assembly in Jamaica during this period and published in the Journals of the House of Assembly (for 1800-26) and the Votes of the House of Assembly (for 1827-45). The figures provided in the Journals and Votes represent a contemporary summary of the customs data collected by the Naval Officer and Collector of Customs. Data is also included from several reports made by the assembly concerning earlier imports. Data is missing for the years 1829/30, 1830/1 and 1832/3 when the figures were not reported in the Votes. The data reflects the concerns of the assembly and the planters in it. Exports reported include sugar, rum, coffee, cotton, ginger, pimento and hardwoods. Imports include provisions (such as flour, cornmeal, bread, fish and rice), stores (such as barrel staves, roof shingles, timbers), livestock (horses, cattle, asses, mules) and a wide range of other items. They do not include British and foreign manufactures imported into Jamaica and then re-exported, or commodities imported and exported through the free ports of the island. Unless otherwise noted, years follow the financial year of the island, running from 30 September to 29 September i.e. "1824/5" refers to the period 30 September 1824 to 29 September 1825. Transcription revealed several errors in addition in the original tables, but on the whole was generally accurate. However, commodities and units were not reported consistently, with rum, for example, being reported in barrels, casks, hogsheads, kegs and puncheons. These have been left as they were in the original. Information on the typical volumes and capacities of these containers, and the prices of commodities, can be found in the secondary literature: B.W. Higman, 'Slave population and economy in Jamaica, 1807-34' (UWI Press, 1995) Appendix I 'Weights, measures and values' pp. 235-42.

This record contains supplementary files for the article “Monumental funerary landscapes of Dhar Tagant (southeastern Mauritania): towards ethical satellite remote sensing in the West African Sahel” by Gonzalo Linares Matás and Jonathan Lim, published in 2021 in the Journal of Archaeological Prospection (Article DOI: 10.1002/arp.1817). Two files are included: 1) A zip file, “Morphometric analysis of tumuli features”, containing an ArcPy script (as a .html and Jupyter Notebook .ipynb file) for processing shapefiles representing the tumuli for further analysis in R. 2) A R script file, “R Script_Monumental Funerary Landscapes of Dhar Tagant.R for carrying out statistical analysis on tumuli morphometrics. This entry is linked to a separate record, containing a table detailing the geometric data of tumuli features in Dhar Tagant. DOI: 10.5287/bodleian:nryv1oB2r

This data set consists of 7 image files in PNG format, and an XML file. These files were created as part of a Digital Editions course, run by the Taylor Institution Library, during Hilary Term 2021. The course required participants to create a digitised version of a printed text. This text is fols. 18v-21v from MS. Canon. Ital. 28. The images of the original text were provided by the Weston Library's special collections scans service. The XML file included here contains an encoded transcription of the original text, created and edited using Oxygen XML Editor, according to Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines.

This table includes geometric data for 276 apparent tumuli in Dhar Tagant, Mauritania that were recorded during a remote sensing survey. Various geometric measurements were taken for further analysis, and can be found in this table. The fields are as follows: Tumuli_ID: This is the ID number of the individual tumuli tumuli_diameter: The maximum diameter of the tumuli outterring_diameter: The maximum diameter of the outer ring, if present; tsArea: The actual area of the tumuli, in metres squared; tscArea: The area of tumuli as an idealised perfect circle; orArea: The actual area of the outer ring (if present), in metres squared; orcArea: The area of the outer ring as an idealised perfect circle; tumuli_index: A measure of roundness, by dividing the actual shape of the tumulus by an idealised circle; outerring_index: A measure of roundness, by dividing the actual shape of the outer ring by an idealised circle; distancefromcentrelines: A measure of how far the geometric center of the tumuli is from the geometric centre of the outer ring if one is present;