Corinth Publication Pettegrew, International Journal of Historical 14:2... 2010

Collection:		Corinth
Name:		Pettegrew, International Journal of Historical 14:2... 2010
Title:		Regional Survey and the Boom-and-bust Countryside: Re-reading the Archaeological Evidence for Episodic Abandonment in the Late Roman Corinthia
Author:		Pettegrew, David K.
Series Title:		International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Volume:		14:2
Month:		June
Date:		2010
Abstract:		This paper reexamines the archaeological evidence for three episodes of rural abandonment and resettlement in the countrysides of Late Roman Greece (200-700 CE): an abandoned Late Hellenistic-Early Roman countryside second century BCE to third century (CE), a decline in the third to early fourth centuries CE, and the Dark Age beginning in the seventh century CE. The first and third episodes of abandonment, especially, have sharply defined Late Antiquity 250-700 (CE) as a healthy period of new rural settlement and economic resurgence, and the entire pattern has been described in the terms of boom-and-bust demographic and economic cycles. Closer readings of the archaeological data can contribute to more sensitive pictures of continuity and change in settlement and connectivity in the late antique Corinthian countryside and other regions in Greece.
Page:		215-229
URL:		http://www.springerlink.com/content/b1511213208x5p63/abstract/