Positions

Overview

  • Though I am an ancient historian, I work primarily with material culture. I have published on Phoenician Epigraphy, Carthaginian Imperialism, Demography, and Disease in the Ancient World.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2020-10-01 How and Why I Count(ed): A Response to Ramsay MacMullen.History of Classical Scholarship.  2:181-191. 2020-10-01
    2013-01-01 Growing up Roman: Infant Mortality and Reproductive Development.The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.  44:1-35. 2013-01-01
    2012-02-01 A Note on Nora and the Nora StoneBASOR.  365:45-51. 2012-02-01

    Book

    Year Title Altmetric
    2019-10-01 The Carthaginian Empire: 550-202 BCE.  Lexington Books: Rowman and Littlefield. 2019-10-01

    Document

    Year Title Altmetric
    2023-03-01 Schwarze Tage. Roms Kriege gegen KarthagoGnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft. 4. 2023-03-01
    2018-01-01 Reading Man(n), Writing HistoryH-Net. 2018-01-01
    2016-06-01 Carthage: The State -- Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military EncyclopediaABC-CLIO. 763-764. 2016-06-01
    2016-06-01 The Carthaginians -- Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military EncyclopediaABC-CLIO. 766. 2016-06-01
    2016-06-01 Treaties, Rome and Carthage -- Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military EncyclopediaABC-CLIO. 1270. 2016-06-01
    2015-09-01 Naismith, Allen, and Screen, eds., Early Medieval Monetary HistoryThe Medieval Review. 2015-09-01

    Newspaper

    Year Title Altmetric
    2016-12-01 Five Myths about Rome -- Sunday OutlookWashington Post . 2016-12-01

    Research Overview

  • Carthaginian history and archaeology, skeletons as historical evidence, and demographic reconstructions of ancient populations.
  • Teaching Overview

  • Greek and Roman History, Biohistory, Demography, Empires, and Plague
  • Full Name

  • Nathan L Pilkington