Theory and practice in late antique archaeology /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 428 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:English
Series:Late antique archaeology, 1570-6893 ; v. 1
Late antique archaeology ; v. 1.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11154395
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Other authors / contributors:Lavan, Luke.
Bowden, William.
ISBN:9004125671
9789004125674
1423712269
9781423712268
9047401492
9789047401490
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:An exploration of theoretical frameworks, methodology and field practice suited to the late antique Mediterranean. Broad themes such as long-term change, topography, the economy and social life are covered, but in terms of the issues and problems being tackled by scholars of late antiquity.
Other form:Print version: Theory and practice in late antique archaeology. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003 9004125671
Table of Contents:
  • Late Antique Archaeology: An Introduction
  • Part 1. Ideologies and Agendas
  • Ideologies and Agendas in Late Antique Studies
  • Part 2. Social Life
  • Archaeology and Late Antique Social Structures
  • The Construction of Identities in post-Roman Albania
  • Some Aspects of the Transformation of the Roman Domus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
  • Part 3. The Economy
  • Late Antique Trade: Research Methodologies & Field Practices
  • Coins and the Late Roman Economy
  • Part 4. Topography
  • Late Antique Urban Topography: From Architecture to Human Space
  • The Urban Ideal and Urban Planning in Byzantine New Cities of the Sixth Century A.D.
  • Christian Topography in the Late Antique Town: Recent Results and Open Questions
  • Topographies of Production in North African Cities during the Vandal and Byzantine Periods
  • Archaeological Survey and Visualisation: The View from Byzantium
  • The Political Topography of the Late Antique City: Activity Spaces in Practice
  • Part 5. Spolia
  • Attitudes to Spolia in some Late Antique Texts
  • Valenza Del Reimpiego: Il Caso di Efeso
  • Part 6. Decline and Fall? Studying Long-term Change
  • Studying Long-term Change in the West, A.D. 400-800
  • Decline and Fall? Studying Long-term Change in the East
  • Index