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SUMMARY:Punitive Labor and Enslavement in the Roman Bakery
DESCRIPTION:About the lecture: \nIn 2023\, excavators in Pompeii found a bakery in the Casa di Rustio Vero that was separated from the house—and the rest of the world—by metal bars. The excavators interpreted the bars as an indication of incarceration and the use of convicts as labor. This lecture explores the evidence for convict labor in bakeries and argues that the material consequences of enslavement and incarceration are probably indistinguishable in the setting of commerical activity. Deploying both textual and material evidence\, Benton will show the various ways that punitive labor grafted onto different systems and scales of production. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr. Jared Benton\, associate professor of art at Old Dominion University\, is co-director of the Saïss Plain and Zerhoun Massif archaeology project\, a survey of the plain SE of Volubilis in Morocco. He has previously excavated workshops in Volubilis and was a field supervisor for the American Excavations at Morgantina from 2013-2020. His book\, The Bread Makers\, explores Roman commercial baking\, with a focus on how production would differ not only between communities but also between operators with different investment tolerances. With a number of co-authors\, he recently published an article on the structure and archaeobotany of a bakery at Volubilis in Mouseion.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/punitive-labor-and-enslavement-in-the-roman-bakery/
LOCATION:Semans Auditorium (Room 117)\, Belk Visual Arts Center\, 315 N. Main St.\, Davidson\, NC\, 28036\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Krentz":MAILTO:pekrentz@davidson.edu
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