TY - JOUR A1 - Djurdjevac Conrad, Natasa A1 - Chemnitz, Robin A1 - Kostre, Margarita A1 - Schweigart, Fleur A1 - Fless, Friederike A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Ducke, Benjamin T1 - A Mathematical perspective on Romanisation: Modelling the Roman road activation process in ancient Tunisia JF - PLoS ONE N2 - Romanisation is a multi-faceted historical phenomenon with profound and lasting cultural impact on the ancient world. In the modern-day territory of Tunisia, this is particularly manifest during the first four centuries AD, under the reign of the Roman Empire. We derive a reduced, operational concept of Romanisation as a cultural diffusion process that is observable in the archaeological remains of the Roman era settlement system. We then introduce a novel mathematical model that computes spatio-temporal approximations for the Romanisation of the settlement system. The model is based on the concept of temporal road activation and makes minimal assumptions regarding input data quality. The results of our study contribute to the understanding of the time dynamics of the region’s road network, under the influence of Romanisation. Our model can be applied in similar archaeological research scenarios, to generate spatio-temporal backbones for the analysis of otherwise intractably complex social processes. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309752 VL - 19 IS - 9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schweigart, Fleur T1 - KARTHAGO, TUNESIEN Datengesteuerte Modellierung des Romanisierungsprozesses in Nordafrika JF - e-Forschungsberichte des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Berlin: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.34780/d469-84h2 VL - Fasc. 1 ER -