Based on archaeological investigations in southern Italy, this volume features a small but viable social and economic entity that was an unexpected find from a period generally marked by large landholdings
Erminia Lapadula is an archaeologist currently working with the Archaeological Superintendency of Basilicata and the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin. She has participated in numerous archaeological excavations in Italy and abroad and published in journals and collective works on Roman and Medieval archaeology, with special attention to Roman Medieval pottery items and clothing accessories in the Middle Ages.
Joseph Coleman Carter is Director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a former fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the American Academy in Rome.
This beautifully-produced volume forms part of the rapidly
expanding series of publications resulting from the long-term
fieldwork directed by Joseph Coleman Carter across the hinterland
(chora) of the Greek colony of Metaponto, on the instep of the
Italian boot...In summary, this is an exemplary report:
well-contextualised, neatly summarised, beautifully-illustrated
(especially the maps), and well worth the wait.
*Antiquity*
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