Aqueduct construction in the late-antique east : an agent‐based modeling and geoarchaeological approach to building evidence for the water supply of Constantinople

摘要

The result of recent research (Snyder, 2013 – PhD thesis) on construction materials and workforce has shown that the Water Supply of Constantinople was one of the largest construction projects undertaken in the ancient world, requiring as much stone as the Great Pyramid of Giza and five times more manpower than of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. However, with lacking archaeological and textual evidence, many vital questions remain about macro-­‐level outcomes of this massive undertaking and the organisation of the labourers involved. This project provides the unique opportunity to explore one of the most under-­‐appreciated aspects of modern classical scholarship: the spectrum of large-­‐scale construction from the role of the individual to the function of the empire in the late antiquity.