Professor of Maritime Antiquity
FB III: Ancient History at Trier University
Ancient History, Business Management
PI at MarDepend
Contact:
warnking@uni-trier.de
+49 651-201 2438
Universität Trier – Campus I
Universitätsring 15
54296 Trier
BZ31
● Ancient economies and their quantification
● Economic history
● Maritime economies
● Martime networks
● Human-environment interplay
● Computer-based reconstruction of sea routes
● Impact of technological innovation on ship building
1996 – 2011
2006 – 2011
2015 – 2022
since 2022
Employee at Praktiker AG with specialization in procurement, sales and marketing.
Management positions at Praktiker AG with focuses on procurement, sales, marketing; member of the board of directors,responsible for overseeing sales, purchasing, marketing, and logistics).
Business Consultant and Interim Manager (roles: Board Member,Managing Director), Owner of C8 Consulting, Germany.
Professorship Maritime Antike (Maritime Antiquity) with tenure track, Trier University, Germany.
1991 – 1996
2015
Studies of Business Administration (BWL, Diplom-Kaufmann) and Ancient History, Saarland University, Germany.
Doctorate Ancient History, Trier University, Germany.
2022 – 2023
2022 – 2026
2025 – 2027
2025 – 2030
Co-PI of TreASurE – Treveris Amphorae Survey and the LocalEconomy (co-PI with Patrick Reinard and Mateo González Vázquez),supported by the Universität Trier, 10.000,00 €.
Advisor to DFG-founded long-term project “Maritime Verbindungen”on sea routes and the experiments on the performance of ancient shipsled by Christoph Schäfer at Trier University; € 3.000.000.
Co-PI of BRICO Pompeii – Bringing Color to Pompeii. (determinationof provenance and tracing the commercial routes of color pigmentspresent in Pompeii); $ 130.000
PI of ERC CoG MarDepend – Maritime Dependencies in Antiquity;€ 1.948.175.
Monograph in preparation (under contract): Die Seefahrt der Antike, Stuttgart.
Forthcoming: Warnking, P. & von Auer, L., Economic Explanations for the Grain Deliveriesfrom Cyrene (SEG IX 2): Some Thoughts on Maritime Economics and Quantifying the Effects of Maritime Connections, in: J. Degen, M. González Vázquez, Ch. Schäfer, (eds.), Maritime Connections and their Influence on Ancient Sea Trade, Berlin.
Forthcoming: Connecting Syracuse with the East, in E. Nantet (ed.) “Sailing from Polis to Empire. Part 2: Warships, Merchantmen, Cargoes, Harbours, and Marine Rituals in the Eastern Mediterranean During the Hellenistic Period”, Cambridge.Forthcoming: From Africa to Gaul: sailing conditions and shipwrecks in Late Antiquity, in: D.Dobreva/T. Schmidts/F. Schimmer (eds.), Commerce in the Late Antique West, Verona.
Forthcoming: Transportkosten und die Anbindung landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe an denGüteraustausch in der Antike am Beispiel der villae rusticae im Trierer Land, in: P. Reinard/C.Schäfer (eds.), Zwischen Augusta Treverorum und vicus Beda. Beiträge zur Wirtschaft-,Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des Trevererlandes, Muziris 3, Münster.
2026: Ruling the Waves – The Nautical Setting of the Attic Empire, in: F. Daubner/P.Reinard/C. Rollinger (eds.), The Attic Empire. Athenians and their Allies, Berlin & Boston.
2026: Corinth and Syracuse. The Maritime Ties That Bind, in: Corinth and Syracuse. A Two-Way Relationship, Syracuse 5-7 December 2024, Conference Proceedings.
2025: González Vázquez, M., Reinard, P., Warnking, P., Amphorenstempel aus Trier. NeueErkenntnisse zur Herkunft, Datierung und Verbreitung römischer Transportgefäße,Archäeologisches Korrespondenzblatt 54 (4), 523-558
2025: Kriegsschiff oder Handelsschiff: Versorgte das Neumagener Weinschiff SeptimiusSeverus in Britannien?, MBAH 42, 115-127.
2024: Trade dependencies and transaction costs: the occupation of Decelea highlights both thebenefits and the drawbacks of a maritime economy, JAC 39, 29-50.
2024: Amphoren – ein Schatz wird gehoben, with Mateo González Vázquez, Patrick Reinard,AiD 3/2024, 24-25.2024: Review of Peter Candy / Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz (eds.), Roman Law and MaritimeCommerce. MBAH 41, 239-244.
2023: Vom Wert des Vertrauens in der Wirtschaft der Antike, in: P. Reinard/C. Rollinger (eds.):Cum magna fide? Vertrauen und die antike Wirtschaft / Trust and the Ancient Economy, ScriptaMercaturae Beiheft 3. Gutenberg, 367-383.
2023: Review of J. G. Manning: The Open Sea. Gnomon 95, 520-525.
2022: Simulating Roman maritime trade: modelling sailing times and shipping routes, in: T.Brughmans/A. I. Wilson (eds.), Simulating Roman economies. Theories, methods andcomputational models, Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy, Oxford, 39-68.
2020: Talking Stones – Ein besonderer Audio-Guide zu den antiken Stätten in Trier, Thersites12, 104-123.
2020: Audio Guides als Mittel des Lehrens und Lernens auf Distanz am Beispiel von TalkingStones – Ein Praxisbericht, in: Geschichtswissenschaften in Corona-Zeiten: Herausforderungen– Lösungsansätze – Erfahrungsberichte, Tagungsband der Jahrestagung 2020 derArbeitsgemeinschaft Geschichte und EDV e.V. (AGE).
2019: Ch. Schäfer, P. Warnking, Through the Middle Sea: An Overview of the Main Mediterranean Sea-Routes in Antiquity, in: Routes and Travellers between East and West,Melammu Workshops and Monographs 2, Münster, 241-258.
2019: Ch. Schäfer, P. Warnking, Kostbare Fracht unter gesetztem Segel, Antike Welt 3/19, 17-22.
2018: Der römische Seehandel, in: Ch. Eger (ed.), Warenwege – Warenflüsse. Handel, Logistikund Transport am römischen Niederrhein. Xantener Berichte 32, Mainz, 25-44.
2017: Lakritos? Schuldig! Neue Beweise für einen Betrug bei einem ναυτικόν δάνειον, MBAH35, 175-206.
2017: Gut gemeint, schlecht gemacht – Wie Septimius Severus eine akute Krise in derLebensmittelversorgung Roms löste und so eine Systemkrise bewirkte, Scripta Mercaturae 46,89-110.
2016: Roman Trade Routes in the Mediterranean Sea, in: Ch. Schäfer (ed.), Connecting theAncient World, Rahden, 45-90.
2016: A Business Model for Roman Maritime Trade, in: Ch. Schäfer (ed.), Connecting theAncient World, Rahden, 173-210.
2016: Roma Ocean Race, YACHT 17, 38-43.
2016: Goldene Zeiten – Drehscheibe Mare Nostrum, SCHIFF Classic 5, 42-47.
2015: Der römische Seehandel in seiner Blütezeit: Rahmenbedingungen, Seerouten,Wirtschaftlichkeit, Rahden.