Andrew Ian Wilson (born 29 February 1968) is a Britishclassical archaeologist and Head of School of Archaeology at theUniversity of Oxford. He was director of the Oxford Institute of Archaeology from 2009 to 2011. Wilson's main research interests are theeconomy of the Roman world,Greek andRoman water supply, andancient technology.^[2]

Wilson was educated at thePerse School,Cambridge, and atCorpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studiedLiterae Humaniores (Classics) from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 1993 he worked as a computer consultant for the electronics firmEurotherm, before returning toOxford to study for his doctorate (1993 to 1997), a social and technological study on water management and usage inRoman North Africa, supervised byJohn Lloyd.

From 1996 to 2000 he was a Fellow by Examination inClassical Archaeology atMagdalen College, Oxford, and spent nine months at theBritish School at Rome as a Rome Scholar in 1999 and 2000. In 2000 he became University Lecturer inRoman Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow ofWolfson College; and in 2004 was appointedProfessor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, and Fellow ofAll Souls College.

Wilson was Director of the Oxford Institute of Archaeology from 2009 to 2011, and was Head of theSchool of Archaeology from 2013. He is Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies, and is on the editorial and advisory boards of several periodicals:Ancient West and East;Facta: A journal of Roman Material Culture Studies; andOxford Journal of Archaeology. With Alan Bowman, he directs the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxREP).^[3]

Wilson's research marshals archaeological data to address historical questions about ancient society, technology and economy. He has co-directed excavations inRome,Euesperides (modernBenghazi,Libya), andUtica, Tunisia withJosephine Crawley Quinn andElizabeth Fentress, and has participated in excavation and fieldwork projects inThamusida,Morocco, on the Tunisian isle ofJerba, in the Libyan desert regionFazzan,Yeronisos onCyprus and Al-Andarin inSyria. As of 2010^[update], he has published over ninety articles and reviews and is co-editor of the monograph seriesOxford Studies in the Roman Economy forOxford University Press.

Books

• Quantifying the Roman Economy: Methods and Problems, Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy, Vol. 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 (co-editor),ISBN 978-0-19-956259-6

Selected articles and book chapters

• Urban Production in the Roman World: The View from North Africa, Papers of the British School at Rome, Vol. 70, 2002, pp. 231–273
• Machines, Power and the Ancient Economy,Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 92, 2002, pp. 1–32
• The Spread of Foggara-based Irrigation in the Ancient Sahara, inMattingly, David John; McLaren, Sue; Savage, Elizabeth; al-Fasatwi, Y.; Gadgood, Khaled (eds.), The Libyan Desert: Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage, London: The Society for Libyan Studies, 2006, pp. 205–216,ISBN 978-1-900971-04-1
• The Economic Impact of Technological Advances in the Roman Construction Industry, inLo Cascio, Elio (ed.), Innovazione tecnica e progresso economico nel mondo romano, Bari: Edipuglia, 2006, pp. 225–236,ISBN 978-88-7228-405-6
• The Metal Supply of the Roman Empire, in Papi, Emanuele (ed.), Supplying Rome and the Roman Empire,Journal of Roman Archaeology, supplement 69, 2007, pp. 109–125,ISBN 978-1-887829-69-4
• Hydraulic Engineering, inOleson, John Peter (ed.), Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 285–318,ISBN 978-0-19-518731-1
• Machines, in Oleson, John Peter (ed.), Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 337–366,ISBN 978-0-19-518731-1
• Large-scale Manufacturing, Standardization, and Trade, in Oleson, John Peter (ed.), Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 393–417,ISBN 978-0-19-518731-1
• Economy and Trade, in Bispham, Edward (ed.), The Short Oxford History of Europe, Vol. 2: Roman Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 170–202,ISBN 978-0-19-926601-2
• Villas, Horticulture and Irrigation Infrastructure in the Tiber Valley, inCoarelli, Filippo; Patterson, Helen (eds.), Mercator Placidissimus: The Tiber Valley in Antiquity. New Research in the Upper and Middle River Valley, Proceedings of the Conference Held at the British School at Rome, 27–28 February 2004, Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2009, pp. 731–768,ISBN 978-88-7140-368-7

• Roman technology
• Roman aqueducts
• List of Roman watermills

• Personal website at Oxford University – incl. publications in PDF format for download
• Website at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford
• Oxford Roman Economy Project
• The Society for Libyan Studies

• British classical archaeologists
• Historians of antiquity
• British economic historians
• Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
• Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford
• Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford
• Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• People from Hertford
• 1968 births
• Living people
• People educated at The Perse School
• Professors of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire

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