Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Mathematik und Informatik, Berlin, Germany.
PLoS One. 2024 Sep 25;19(9):e0309752. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309752. eCollection 2024.
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.
罗马化是一种多方面的历史现象，对古代世界产生了深远而持久的文化影响。在公元 1 世纪至 4 世纪罗马帝国统治下的突尼斯现代领土上，这种现象表现得尤为明显。我们得出了一个简化的、操作性的罗马化概念，即一种文化扩散过程，可以从罗马时代定居系统的考古遗迹中观察到。然后，我们引入了一个新的数学模型，该模型可以计算定居系统罗马化的时空近似值。该模型基于时间道路激活的概念，并且对输入数据质量的假设最少。我们的研究结果有助于理解在罗马化的影响下，该地区路网的时间动态。我们的模型可以应用于类似的考古研究场景中，为分析其他难以处理的复杂社会过程生成时空骨干。
