Allard Mees is an archaeologist at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, where he is head of the scientific IT department. He has been running major European funded archaeological database projects on Roman ship archaeology and maintains a long term European digital research framework on Roman ceramics. As a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London, his research focuses on the Roman economy, statistics and cultural astronomy. He studied in Utrecht, worked at archaeological institutes in Budapest and Zürich and received his PhD in Freiburg im Breisgau.

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How Roman transport network connectivity shapes economic integration
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