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Vrbes extinctae : archaeologies of abandoned classical towns

Title
Vrbes extinctae : archaeologies of abandoned classical towns / edited by Neil Christie and Andrea Augenti.
Publication
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2012], ©2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Christie, Neil.
  • Augenti, Andrea.
Description
xx, 372 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color); 24 cm
Alternative Title
Urbes extinctae
Subject
  • Extinct cities
  • Cities and towns > Rome
  • Urban archaeology
  • Rome > Civilization
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Vrbes extinctae : histories and archaeologies / Neil Christie -- Classe : archaeologies of a lost city in north Italy / Andrea Augenti -- Potentia : a lost new town / Frank Vermeulen -- After the rats : Cosa in the late empire and early Middle Ages / Enrico Cirelli and Elizabeth Fentress -- Urban change on the Balearics in late antiquity / Miguel Ángel Cau -- Recopolis : vrbs relicta? : an historico-archaeological debate / Isabel Velázquez and Gisella Ripoll -- Deciphering 'lost' urban landscapes at Cyrene / Vince Gaffney, Gareth Sears, Chris Gaffney, Richard Cuttler, Helen Goodchild and Susan Kane -- An 'ice age setting on the Roman Empire' : post-Roman Butrint between strategy and serendipity / Will Bowden and Richard Hodges -- Memory and loss in the late antique cities of Knossos and Sparta / Rebecca Sweetman -- Hierapolis in Asia Minor : the drawn-out demise of an Anatolian city / Paul Arthur -- Dura Deserta : the death and afterlife of Dura-Europos / Jen Baird -- Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK) : an early medieval extinction / Mike Fulford -- Concluding remarks : a tale of many (lost) cities : past, present and future / Andrea Augenti.
ISBN
  • 9780754665625 (hardback)
  • 0754665623 (hardback)
LCCN
  • 2012000957
  • 99953734223
OCLC
  • 773811606
  • ocn773811606
  • SCSB-5687793
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries