Field methods and post-excavation techniques in late antique archaeology / / edited by Luke Lavan and Michael Mulryan.

• Superior document: Late antique archaeology ; 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Lavan, Luke.; Mulryan, Michael.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Hardback ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Late antique archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (702 p.)
• Notes: "Originally published as Volume 9 (2012) of Brill's journal Late Antique Archaeology."

Archaeologists working on late antique sites have not spent enough time thinking about methodology. Their focus has been on recovering and cataloguing evidence, or on the study of specific historical problems. Digging has often been more important than publishing, which has rarely extended beyond th...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / Luke Lavan and Michael Mulryan
• Field Methods and Post Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology: Anyone for Discussion? / Luke Lavan
• ‘Late Antique Field Archaeology’: A Legitimate Aim? / Steve Roskams
• Distinctive Field Methods for Late Antiquity: Some Suggestions / Luke Lavan
• The Analysis of Reused Material Culture for Late Antique Studies / Ellen Swift
• Late Antique Archaeology in Hungary: The Development of Fieldwork Methodologies / Zsolt Magyar
• Late Antique Archaeology in the Holy Land: Evolution, Fieldwork Methods and Post-Excavation Analyses / Itamar Taxel
• Central Greece in Late Antiquity: The Evidence from the Boeotia Project / John Bintliff
• Survey in the Taurus Mountains: Methodologies of the Pisidia Survey Project / Lutgarde Vandeput and Veli Köse
• Ruins, Rubbish Dumps and Encroachment: Resurveying Late Antique Ostia / Axel Gering
• The Agorai of Sagalassos in Late Antiquity: An Interpretive Study / Luke Lavan
• The Early Byzantine Domed Basilicas of West Asia Minor. An Essay in Graphic Reconstruction / Nikolaos D. Karydis
• Reuse as Archaeology: A Test Case for Late Antique Building Chronologies in Ostia / Douglas Underwood
• Approaches to Artefact Assemblages. Inventories, Imagery, and Stratified Deposits / Joe Williams
• Beyond the Grave. Excavating the Dead in the Late Roman Provinces / John Pearce
• Contextual Archaeology: the Late Antique Fort and Vicus Favianis/Mautern. Methods and Results / Stefan Groh and Helga Sedlmayer
• Food for Thought: The Potential and Problems of Faunal Evidence for Interpreting Late Antique Society / Steve Roskams
• Excavation, Processing and Studying the Pottery from Ras El Bassit, Syria / Jeremy Evans and Philip Mills
• The Potential of Ceramic Building Materials in Understanding Late Antique Archaeology / Luke Lavan and Philip Mills
• The Potential of Laser Scanning for the Study of Roman Buildings / Yoshiki Hori and Luke Lavan
• Abstracts in French / Luke Lavan and Michael Mulryan
• Indices / Joe Williams and Michael Mulryan
• Late Antique Archaeology / Luke Lavan.