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The FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and Medieval Economy) Project is a digital humanities project based out of Princeton University, which is aimed at studying the economic transition period between the end of the Roman Empire and the start of the Middle Ages. To achieve this, it has constructed an online SQL database of more than 2 million coins from the period 325-750 CE. The coins are freely available to and downloadable by scholars, who visit FLAME's two modules (on minting and circulation), which put these coin finds on an interactive map, rendered by using ArcGIS. This talk presents the history and structure of the FLAME Projects, its application of ArcGIS to graphically represent coin finds in an interactive and usable fashion, and the potential for its use in studying lived spaces.
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