LRCW 4 - Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry (British Archaeological Reports International Series, 2616)

These two volumes contain the proceedings of the fourth LRCW conference, held in Thessaloniki. Approaches vary from traditional typo-morphological ones with emphasis on pottery sequences and local production centres to more technological proccedures involving archaeometric analyses investigating the clay fabric and its mineralogical and /or chemical composition. Syntheses tackle broad issues such as the commerce and the economy of the Late Antique world and cover almost the entire Mediterranean region. Papers are grouped thematically under the following headings: archaeology and economic history, production centers, distribution and consumption, regional contexts-east Mediterranean, regional contexts-west Mediterranean, and the Mediterranean: a market without frontiers.