Vrbes Extinctae

Neil Christie is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK and Andrea Augenti is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bologna - Ravenna Campus, Italy.

• Contents: Preface; Vrbes extinctae: archaeologies of and approaches to abandoned classical cities Neil Christie; Classe: archaeologies of a lost city, Andrea Augenti; Potentia: a lost new town, Frank M.R. 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, Gareth Sears, Vince Gaffney, Chris Gaffney, Richard Cuttler, Helen Goodchild and Susan Kane; An 'Ice Age settling on the Roman Empire': post-Roman Butrint between strategy and serendipity, William Bowden and Richard Hodges; Memory and loss in the late antique cities of Knossos and Sparta, Rebecca J. Sweetman; Hierapolis of Phrygia: the drawn-out demise of an Anatolian city, Paul Arthur; Dura deserta: the death and afterlife of Dura-Europos, J.A. Baird; Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire, UK): an early medieval extinction, Michael Fulford; Concluding remarks: a tale of many (lost) cities: past, present and future, Andrea Augenti; Index.

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