Alessandro Buono is associate professor of early modern history at the University of Pisa. He completed his PhD at the University of Florence and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship at the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on the relationships between personal identity and ownership regimes in early modern Europe and the Spanish Empire.Anna Anguissola is associate professor of Classical Archaeology and the director of the Plaster Casts and Antiquities Collection at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on urban development, the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, and the relationship between Greek and Roman art. As a field archaeologist, she coordinates projects in Pompeii and in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey).

• Contributors Preface Appropriating places 1. The biographies of Neolithic burnt houses: Insights from the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine Bisserka Gaydarska, Brian Buchanan, and John Chapman2. Roman euocatio, or how to get possession of a deserted city Chiara Ombretta Tommasi3. Reclaiming the funerary space: The protection and re-use of tombs in the burial grounds of Hierapolis in Phrygia Anna AnguissolaRedefining abandonment 4. Relic(t) ecologies. Exploring abandonment in the Apuan Alps F. Anichini, S. Basile, G. Gattiglia, and C. Sciuto5. Depopulating landscapes: Methodology and the materiality of archives in Calabria Joseph J. Viscomi6. Rehabi(li)tating abandonment. Urban occupations and their regenerative practices Antonio StopaniClaiming things 7. After death: Rituality used to legitimise the appropriation of abandoned goods in ancient Egypt Gianluca Miniaci8. How to preserve an oikos? The case of Isaeus’s Oration VIII Angelica Tortorella9. How to claim things with rites. Care for the dead and inheritance rights in early modern Europe (and beyond) Alessandro BuonoAfterword 10. Biographies of place and the significance of place-value John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska

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Alessandro Buono is associate professor of early modern history at the University of Pisa. He completed his PhD at the University of Florence and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship at the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on the relationships between personal identity and ownership regimes in early modern Europe and the Spanish Empire.Anna Anguissola is associate professor of Classical Archaeology and the director of the Plaster Casts and Antiquities Collection at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on urban development, the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, and the relationship between Greek and Roman art. As a field archaeologist, she coordinates projects in Pompeii and in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey).

• Contributors Preface Appropriating places 1. The biographies of Neolithic burnt houses: Insights from the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine Bisserka Gaydarska, Brian Buchanan, and John Chapman2. Roman euocatio, or how to get possession of a deserted city Chiara Ombretta Tommasi3. Reclaiming the funerary space: The protection and re-use of tombs in the burial grounds of Hierapolis in Phrygia Anna AnguissolaRedefining abandonment 4. Relic(t) ecologies. Exploring abandonment in the Apuan Alps F. Anichini, S. Basile, G. Gattiglia, and C. Sciuto5. Depopulating landscapes: Methodology and the materiality of archives in Calabria Joseph J. Viscomi6. Rehabi(li)tating abandonment. Urban occupations and their regenerative practices Antonio StopaniClaiming things 7. After death: Rituality used to legitimise the appropriation of abandoned goods in ancient Egypt Gianluca Miniaci8. How to preserve an oikos? The case of Isaeus’s Oration VIII Angelica Tortorella9. How to claim things with rites. Care for the dead and inheritance rights in early modern Europe (and beyond) Alessandro BuonoAfterword 10. Biographies of place and the significance of place-value John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska

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Alessandro Buono is associate professor of early modern history at the University of Pisa. He completed his PhD at the University of Florence and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship at the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on the relationships between personal identity and ownership regimes in early modern Europe and the Spanish Empire.Anna Anguissola is associate professor of Classical Archaeology and the director of the Plaster Casts and Antiquities Collection at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on urban development, the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, and the relationship between Greek and Roman art. As a field archaeologist, she coordinates projects in Pompeii and in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey).

• Contributors Preface Appropriating places 1. The biographies of Neolithic burnt houses: Insights from the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine Bisserka Gaydarska, Brian Buchanan, and John Chapman2. Roman euocatio, or how to get possession of a deserted city Chiara Ombretta Tommasi3. Reclaiming the funerary space: The protection and re-use of tombs in the burial grounds of Hierapolis in Phrygia Anna AnguissolaRedefining abandonment 4. Relic(t) ecologies. Exploring abandonment in the Apuan Alps F. Anichini, S. Basile, G. Gattiglia, and C. Sciuto5. Depopulating landscapes: Methodology and the materiality of archives in Calabria Joseph J. Viscomi6. Rehabi(li)tating abandonment. Urban occupations and their regenerative practices Antonio StopaniClaiming things 7. After death: Rituality used to legitimise the appropriation of abandoned goods in ancient Egypt Gianluca Miniaci8. How to preserve an oikos? The case of Isaeus’s Oration VIII Angelica Tortorella9. How to claim things with rites. Care for the dead and inheritance rights in early modern Europe (and beyond) Alessandro BuonoAfterword 10. Biographies of place and the significance of place-value John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska

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