Technology in Transition A.D. 300-650 (Late Antique Archaeology)

Contents
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Acknowledgements (Introduction)......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Explaining Technological Change: Innovation, Stagnation, Recession and Replacement (Luke Lavan)......Page 16
The Transmission of Craft Techniques according to the Principles of Material Culture: Continuity and Rupture (Tiziano Mannoni)......Page 42
Bibliographic Essays......Page 62
Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay (Philip Bes)......Page 64
Metal Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Note (Nathalie Kellens)......Page 102
Glass Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Note (Veerle Lauwers)......Page 114
Agriculture......Page 124
Water into Wine: Trade and Technology in Late Antiquity (Michael Decker)......Page 126
Wine-Making after Pliny: Viticulture and Farming Technology in Late Antique Italy (Jeremy Rossiter)......Page 154
Absent-Minded Landlords and Innovating Peasants? The Press in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean (Tamara Lewit)......Page 180
Production......Page 202
Ceramic Production in Africa during Late Antiquity: Continuity and Change (Michel Bonifay)......Page 204
Form, Function and Technology in Pottery Production from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (Paul Arthur)......Page 220
Metal Production in Late Antiquity: from Continuity of Knowledge to Changes in Consumption (Enrico Giannichedda)......Page 248
Glass in Late Antiquity: The Continuity of Technology and Sources of Supply (Lucia Saguí)......Page 272
Glass in Late Antiquity in The Near East (Margaret O'Hea)......Page 294
Engineering......Page 310
The Infrastructure of a Great City: Earth, Walls and Water in Late Antique Constantinople (James Crow)......Page 312
Water Technology at Gortyn in the 4th–7th c. A.D.: Transport, Storage and Distribution (Elisabetta Giorgi)......Page 348
Late Antique Urban Streets at Sagalassos (Femke Martens)......Page 382
Antique Engineering in the Byzantine World (Michael J. T. Lewis)......Page 428
Building......Page 440
Technology and Ideas: Architects and Master-Builders in the Early Byzantine World (Enrico Zanini)......Page 442
The Art of Building in Milan during Late Antiquity: San Lorenzo Maggiore (Laura Fieni)......Page 468
Public and Private Building Activity in Late Antique Rome (Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani)......Page 496
Architecture and Infrastructure in the Early Medieval Village: the Case of Tuscany (Marco Valenti)......Page 512
Umayyad Building Techniques and the Merging of Roman-Byzantine and Partho-Sassanian Traditions: Continuity and Change (Ignacio Arce)......Page 552
Index......Page 600