Willet, R. (ed.), 2020. The Economics of Urbanism in the Roman East, Propylaeum, Heidelberg, 2020
This volume discusses the geography of cities of the Eastern Mediterranean that existed under the... more This volume discusses the geography of cities of the Eastern Mediterranean that existed under the Roman Empire. Roman urbanism has a long historiography, however, many previous studies saw the ancient town as an isolated historical phenomenon, or at best as an index of the spread of Hellenism or Romanitas. This volume attempts to take a step further and place the town in its socio-economic context, while also presenting the most up-to-date statistics for the urban phenomenon in the Roman East. Six contributions all deal with issues related to the spatial patterns observed in the distribution of cities in the eastern half of the Empire. One contribution, by way of comparison, deals with Roman urbanism of the Iberian Peninsula. Starting off with an overview of the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole, each contribution zooms in on a specific region in order to investigate the factors that shaped the pattern of urban settlement and the variation of city size on both (supra)regional and local scales. These factors are wide-ranging, from climatological variation, possibilities of connectivity through the road-network and sea-lanes, historical path-dependency, and agricultural potential to specific policies of Roman imperialism. The book is freely available at: https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/catalog/book/571
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Settlements, Culture and Population Dynamics in Balkan Prehistory
International Conference
13-14.03.2015
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
ABSTRACTS OF THE ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
General Editor: Vasilka Dimitrovska
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open-area excavations! – carried out in 2020, brought to light important evidence for the chronology
and cultural affiliation of the Neolithic settlement at this site. By the end of this campaign, it became
clear that the earliest settlement at “Cocev Kamen” continued to exist into the Late Neolithic period.
(Anzabegovo-Vršnik IV) This phase went unnoticed during the study of the surface finds collected
in the 2018 survey. The 2020 excavations also revealed new aspects of the inner topography of the
settlement at the northwest foot of the rock. The full report of the 2020 excavations will be published
in the next issue of the museum bulletin. The goal of this study is to revise some of the earlier observations
about the size, location and topography of this Neolithic settlement, drawing from the
experiences of the last excavation campaign.
http://haemus.org.mk
Settlements, Culture and Population Dynamics in Balkan Prehistory
International Conference
13-14.03.2015
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
ABSTRACTS OF THE ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
General Editor: Vasilka Dimitrovska
Cover Design: Vasilka Dimitrovska, Elka Anastasova
Design: Elka Anastasova
Editing and English proofreading: Mark Branov
open-area excavations! – carried out in 2020, brought to light important evidence for the chronology
and cultural affiliation of the Neolithic settlement at this site. By the end of this campaign, it became
clear that the earliest settlement at “Cocev Kamen” continued to exist into the Late Neolithic period.
(Anzabegovo-Vršnik IV) This phase went unnoticed during the study of the surface finds collected
in the 2018 survey. The 2020 excavations also revealed new aspects of the inner topography of the
settlement at the northwest foot of the rock. The full report of the 2020 excavations will be published
in the next issue of the museum bulletin. The goal of this study is to revise some of the earlier observations
about the size, location and topography of this Neolithic settlement, drawing from the
experiences of the last excavation campaign.
region – intensive surface survey, coverage of the landscape by teams walking in close order,
recording patterns of human activity visible on the landsurface as scatters of pottery and lithics,
or building remains. Since 2000, archaeologists from Dutch and Belgian universities working
on Mediterranean survey projects have gathered annually to discuss methodological issues in
workshops that gradually attracted landscape archaeologists from other European countries and
Turkey. On the basis of these discussions, this paper, written by regular workshop contributors
and other invited authors with wider Mediterranean experience, aims to evaluate the potential
of various approaches to the archaeological surface record in the Mediterranean and provide
guidelines for standards of good practice in Mediterranean survey.