Prof. Andrew Wilson MA DPhil

Fellow, Wolfson College

Institute of Archaeology
36 Beaumont Street, Oxford
Oxford,
OX1 2PG

Tel: (01865) 279385

andrew.wilson@arch.ox.ac.uk

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp0057

Research Interests

Archaeology of the Roman Empire, ancient technology and the economy, ancient water supply and engineering.

Selected Recent Publications

1998: 'Water-supply in ancient Carthage,' in Carthage papers: The early colony's economy, water supply, a private bath, and the mobilization of state olive oil., JRA Supplement 28, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 65-102.
1999: 'Deliveries extra urbem: aqueducts and the countryside', Journal of Roman Archaeology, 12.1, 314-31.
2000: 'Industrial uses of water in the ancient world'; 'Drainage and sanitation'; and 'Land drainage', in Ö. Wikander (ed.) Ancient water technology (Technology and change in history 2), E. J. Brill, Leiden., 127-149; 151-79; 308-317.
2001: 'Water-mills at Amida: Ammianus Marcellinus 18.8.11', Classical Quarterly, 51.1, 231-6.
2001: 'The water-mills on the Janiculum', Memoirs of the American Academy at Rome, 45, 219-46.
2002: 'Urban production in the Roman world: the view from North Africa.', Papers of the British School at Rome, 70, 231-73.
2002: 'Machines, power and the ancient economy.', Journal of Roman Studies, 92, 1-32.
2003: 'Irrigation technologies: foggaras, wells and field systems', in D.J. Mattingly (ed.) The Archaeology of Fazzan, vol. I, Synthesis, Society for Libyan Studies (with D.J. Mattingly), London, 1, 235-78.

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