Before/After: Transformation, Change, and Abandonment in the Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean: Transformation, Change, and Abandonment in the Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean

by Paolo Cimadomo (Editor), Rocco Palermo (Editor), Raffaella Pappalardo (Editor)

Before/After explores various aspects related to transformation and change in the Roman and Late Antique world through the archaeological and historical evidence. The seven chapters of the volume range from the evolution of settlement patterns to spatial re-configuration after abandonment processes. Geographically the volume aims to cover – through case studies – the enlarged Roman world from Spain, to Cyprus, from the Rhine area borderland to the Red Sea. The book is the result of a workshop organized as part of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, held in Rome during March 2016.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Editors)

Crisis or the Effects of the ‘Third Century Crisis’ in the Layetania Interior. An Example from the Hispania Citerior Tarraconensis – J. O. Guzman

The Abandonment of Myos Hormos – D. Nappo

Hydrological Change and Settlement Dislocation along the Later Roman Rhine – T. V. Franconi

Abandoned but not forgotten. Dynamics of Authority Negotiation in the British Sacred Landscape – A. Esposito

Contesting Sacred Continuity and Abandonment in Roman Cyprus – G. Papantoniou

Abandonment and Revival between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Facts and Fiction – A. Vionis

Investigating Transformations through Archaeological Records in the Heart of Tuscany. The Roman Villa at Aiano between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (4th-7th c. AD) – M. Cavalieri

126 pages, Paperback

Published May 31, 2020