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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; A Note on Figures, Maps and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Physical and Historical Introduction; Research Questions; Physical Introduction; Historical and Archaeological Introduction; Iron Age and Hellenistic; Pontus under Roman control; Late Roman Pontus; 2 Geology, Geomorphology and Palaeoenvironments; Geological Setting; Physical Geography and Geomorphology; Rivers, Soils and Land-Use; Climate; Modern-Day Vegetation Patterns |
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Past Vegetation and Palaeoenvironmental ReconstructionsAcknowledgements; 3 The Survey; The Survey: Identifying the Area of Interest (AOI); Types of Survey Methods; Village Survey; Intensive Survey; Hardware, Software and Networking: Database and Data Structure; Field Methods; Identifying Vestiges of Landscape Use; Landscape History; Discussion; 4 Travel and Communication; Introduction; Roads in the Roman and Byzantine World of Euchaïta; Euchaïta's Landscape (and the People Who Write About It); Least-Cost Path Analysis at AAP: Methods, Issues and Results; The Roads on the Ground |
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The Main Road to the WestThe Main Road to the East; Euchaïta's Connecting Roads; Discussion; 5 The Countryside; Introduction; Long-Term Trends Observed from Textual and Documentary Sources; The Demographic Context; Agriculture in Northern Anatolia and at Euchaïta from Medieval and Early Modern Sources; Olives in the Euchaïta Region?; Cereals; Animals; Modelling Zones of Exploitation in Archaeology; Territoriality, Exploitation Zones and Landscape Archaeology; Constructing a Model of Site Exploitation Territories in the Mecitözü Valley; Computational GIS Model; Satellite Data Selection |
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Multispectral Analysis Using Landsat ImageryNormalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Land-Use; Towards a Landscape Archaeology of the Mecitözü Valley; Implications for Late Roman and Byzantine Euchaïta; Conclusion; 6 The Ceramics, Agricultural Resources and Food*; Introduction; Late Roman-Byzantine Ceramics; Medieval Ceramics; Post-Medieval Ceramics; Two Early Byzantine Amphorae: Containers for Spiced Wine; Middle Byzantine Amphorae: Containers for Holy Wine; The Production of Food; Food in Environmental Research: The Byzantine and Medieval Periods; Archaeobotanical Research in Turkey |
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Archaeozoological Research in TurkeyThe Mediterranean Diet Pyramid; Availability of Food in Byzantine Anatolia: The Environmental Evidence; Availability of Food in Byzantine Anatolia: The Written Evidence; Consumption in the Avkat Region during Byzantine Times; Some Conclusions: The Avkat Ceramics in a Functional Perspective; 7 The Archaeology of the City and Its Hinterland; The Coins; The Cemetery; The Kale; The Intensive Survey; Local Context; Conclusions; 8 Euchaïta: From Late Roman and Byzantine Town to Ottoman Village; Euchaïta and St Theodore 'the Recruit' |
| Summary |
Analyses the evolution of a provincial Byzantine urban settlement based on the results of an interdisciplinary collaborative project |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed November 5, 2018) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Civilization
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Manners and customs
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
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Greece -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057131
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Haldon, John, editor
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Elton, Hugh, editor
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Newhard, James, editor
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| ISBN |
9781108698177 |
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1108698174 |
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