Maritime Connections and their Influence on the Ancient Sea Trade - Nautical Simulations as Basis for Historical Enquiries

海上联系及其对古代海上贸易的影响——航海模拟作为历史探究的基础

• 批准号: 449943696
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Christoph Schäfer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/449943696?language=en
• 关键词: Maritime; Connections; their; Influence; Ancient

The project intends to establish quantifying analyses into maritime connections of the ancient world as a field of research, thus providing a fresh perspective focused on the development of new methodologies. It focuses on the field of maritime trade and the quasi-globalising phenomena that this trade caused to appear in ancient Europe. In order to facilitate research on this subject, the simulation of ancient maritime trade will be undertaken and a methodology will be developed for calculating a) courses and capacities for maritime trade routes and, b) for estimating the empirical basis for ancient economic calculations undertaken by persons involved in maritime trade. As both the underlying data and the results of these calculations will be digitally preserved and since the simulations will be visually presented within the framework of “DIMAG – Digitaler Interaktiver Maritimer Atlas zur Geschichte” (Digital Interactive Maritime Atlas of History), other scholars will benefit from a scientifically and academically sound historical-geographic information system (GIS) as an operational tool for further research. This research, the resultant calculations, and the digital infrastructure for graphically depicting them, can and will then be applied to additional fields of enquiry beyond that of economic history, such as, e.g., communication and the transfer of persons or ideas by way of maritime routes. Whereas the first project phase will focus on the Roman Empire, both in terms of scholarly research and of developing the digital maritime atlas, the following second and third phases will expand the analysis both geographically and chronologically, i.e. by including additional maritime spaces (seascapes) and by including other historical periods in ancient history. Thus, the transferability and applicability of methods developed for and by this research project will be demonstrated for other fields of historical research.

该项目旨在将古代世界的海洋联系作为一个研究领域进行量化分析，从而为新方法的发展提供一个新的视角。它侧重于海上贸易领域和准全球化现象，这种贸易导致出现在古代欧洲。为了促进对这一主题的研究，将模拟古代海上贸易，并将制定一种方法来计算a）海上贸易路线的路线和能力，以及B）估计参与海上贸易的人进行的古代经济计算的经验基础。由于基础数据和这些计算的结果都将以数字方式保存，而且由于模拟将在“DIMAG -数字交互式海洋历史地图集”的框架内直观呈现，其他学者将受益于一个在科学和学术上健全的历史地理信息系统，作为进一步研究的一个业务工具。这项研究，由此产生的计算，以及以图形方式描绘它们的数字基础设施，可以并将被应用于经济史以外的其他研究领域，例如，通过海路进行的人员或思想交流。项目第一阶段的重点是罗马帝国，既包括学术研究，也包括数字海洋地图集的开发，而接下来的第二和第三阶段将在地理和时间上扩大分析，即包括更多的海洋空间（海景），并包括古代历史中的其他历史时期。因此，为本研究项目开发的方法的可移植性和适用性将被证明适用于历史研究的其他领域。