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TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSITION A.D. 300–650 LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY Editorial Board SERIES EDITOR LUKE LAVAN COMMITTEE MEMBERS Albrecht Berger William Bowden Kim Bowes Alexandra Chavarría Averil Cameron Beatrice Caseau James Crow Simon Ellis Sauro Gelichi Lale Özgenel Jean-Pierre Sodini Bryan Ward-Perkins Enrico Zanini VOLUME 4 – 2006 TECHNOLOGY IN TRANSITION A.D. 300–650 EDITED BY LUKE LAVAN, ENRICO ZANINI and ALEXANDER SARANTIS WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF INE JACOBS, DIRK BOOMS, BART DE GRAEVE LEIDEN • BOSTON 2007 Cover illustration: Interior visualisation of the Alacami (Richard Bayliss). Brill has made all reasonable efforts to trace all rights holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyrights holders, so that the appropriate a cknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Technology in transition : A.D. 300–650 / edited by Luke Lavan, Enrico Zanini and Alexander Sarantis ; with the assistance of the Ine Jacobs, Dirk Booms, Bart de Graeve. p. cm. — (Late antique archaeology ; 4) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-16549-6 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Technology—Mediterranean Region—History. 2. Mediterranean Region—Antiquities. 3. Mediterranean Region—History. I. Lavan, Luke. II. Zanini, Enrico. III. Sarantis, Alexander Constantine, 1978– IV. Title. V. Series. T16.T43 2008 609.182’209015—dc22 2008006280 ISBN 1570-6893 ISBN 978 90 04 16549 6 Copyright 2007 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands CONTENTS Acknowledgements ..................................................................... ix Introduction Explaining Technological Change: Innovation, Stagnation, Recession and Replacement ................................................... xv Luke Lavan The Transmission of Craft Techniques according to the Principles of Material Culture: Continuity and Rupture ...... xli Tiziano Mannoni Bibliographic Essays Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay ............... 3 Philip Bes Metal Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Note ..... 41 Nathalie Kellens Glass Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Note ...... 53 Veerle Lauwers Agriculture Water into Wine: Trade and Technology in Late Antiquity ..... 65 Michael Decker Wine-Making after Pliny: Viticulture and Farming Technology in Late Antique Italy .......................................... 93 Jeremy Rossiter vi contents Absent-Minded Landlords and Innovating Peasants? The Press in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean ............ 119 Tamara Lewit Production Ceramic Production in Africa during Late Antiquity: Continuity and Change .......................................................... 143 Michel Bonifay Form, Function and Technology in Pottery Production from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages ..................... 159 Paul Arthur Metal Production in Late Antiquity: from Continuity of Knowledge to Changes in Consumption ............................... 187 Enrico Giannichedda Glass in Late Antiquity: The Continuity of Technology and Sources of Supply ........................................................... 211 Lucia Saguí Glass in Late Antiquity in The Near East ................................. 233 Margaret O’Hea Engineering The Infrastructure of a Great City: Earth, Walls and Water in Late Antique Constantinople .................................. 251 James Crow Water Technology at Gortyn in the 4th–7th c. A.D.: Transport, Storage and Distribution ...................................... 287 Elisabetta Giorgi Late Antique Urban Streets at Sagalassos ................................. 321 Femke Martens contents vii Antique Engineering in the Byzantine World ........................... 367 Michael J. T. Lewis Building Technology and Ideas: Architects and Master-Builders in the Early Byzantine World ................................................. 381 Enrico Zanini The Art of Building in Milan during Late Antiquity: San Lorenzo Maggiore ........................................................... 407 Laura Fieni Public and Private Building Activity in Late Antique Rome .... 435 Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani Architecture and Infrastructure in the Early Medieval Village: the Case of Tuscany ................................................. 451 Marco Valenti Umayyad Building Techniques and the Merging of Roman-Byzantine and Partho-Sassanian Traditions: Continuity and Change .......................................................... 491 Ignacio Arce Index ........................................................................................... 539 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The papers presented in the volume are derived from a meeting of Late Antique Archaeology held at the Collegio Santa Chiara, in Siena in June 2004, entitled Technology in Transition A.D. 300–650, organised by Enrico Zanini and Luke Lavan. We would like to thank all contributors to both this volume and the conference, as well as all those who helped organise and subsidise both events, especially the staff and students at Siena, whose work made the meeting so memorable. The Fondazione Monte Paschi di Siena provided a generous grant towards the cost of the meeting. Finally, our thanks go to Julian Deahl for agreeing to publish these papers and to him, Marcella Mulder, Gera van Bedaf and others at Brill for their work on this manuscript.
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