Regional Survey and the Boom-and-bust Countryside: Re-reading the Archaeological Evidence for Episodic Abandonment in the Late Roman Corinthia |
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Authors: | David K Pettegrew |
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Institution: | (1) Department of History, Messiah College, One College Avenue, Box 3051, Grantham, PA 17027, USA |
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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. |
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