Description
Book SynopsisThe site of medieval Euchaïta, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro (''the Recruit''). Unlike most excavated or surveyed urban centres of the Byzantine period, Euchaïta was never a major metropolis, cultural centre or extensive urban site, although it had a military function from the seventh to ninth centuries. Its significance lies precisely in the fact that as a small provincial town, something of a backwater, it was probably more typical of the ''average'' provincial Anatolian urban settlement, yet almost nothing is known about such sites. This volume represents the results of a collaborative project that integrates archaeological survey work with other disciplines in a unified approach to the region both to enhance understanding of the history of Byzantine provincial society and to illustrate the application of innovative approaches to field survey.
Trade Review"The chapters in this book each serve as an important contribution to the history of Byzantine Anatolia and together have set a new standard for survey in the field." - Antiquity
‘This impressive study adds to the various recent publications that, after too many years of text-conditioned interpretations, finally demonstrate how Byzantine archaeology and material remains can contribute strongly and decisively to the complex and frequently misunderstood history of the later first millennium.’ Paul Arthur, Medieval Archaeology
Table of Contents1. Physical and historical introduction Hugh Elton; 2. Geology, geomorphology and paleoenvironments Warren J. Eastwood and Hakan Yiğitbaşıoğlu; 3. The survey: methods of survey, data collection and management, and artificial planning James M. L. Newhard; 4. Travel and communication Sarah Craft; 5. The countryside Peter Bikoulis; 6. The ceramics, agricultural resources and food Joanita Vroom; 7. The archaeology of the city and its hinterland Hugh Elton; 8. Euchaïta: from late Roman and Byzantine town to Ottoman village John Haldon; Appendix 1. Remote sensing and geophysical prospection Meg Watters; Appendix 2. The coins Alan Stahl; Appendix 3. Assigning function to survey data using heuristic geospatial modelling James M. L. Newhard, N. S. Levine and O. Adams; Appendix 4. Epigraphy Pawel Nowakowski and Frank Trombley.
