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The Archaeology of Seasonality
Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja (eds)
- Pages: xxiv + 431 p.
- Size:216 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:73 b/w, 148 col., 6 tables b/w., 2 tables col., 4 maps color
- Language(s):English, Italian
- Publication Year:2021
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-59395-1
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" This is a promising framework, and this volume is a solid foundation on which the conversation on an archaeology of seasonality can continue. (Michael Loy, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 09/09/2022)
Seasonality — the passage of time and the change in the environment across the course of a year — is universally recognized as having a major impact on the relationship between people and nature, yet it has rarely been examined as a topic of study in its own right. In the past, many areas of life were constrained and furthered by the cycle of the seasons, from the production of crops and grazing of animals in rural areas, to dress and diet, urban development, and religious activities. This volume offers an in-depth study of the impact of the seasons on the Graeco-Roman world, drawing on the archaeology of seasonality to open up new perspectives into the temporal dimension that underpins human activity, as well as offering fresh insights into space and spatial practices in the ancient world. The contributions draw on a wide range of archaeological evidence to explore the archaeology of the seasons from a number of different perspectives, including economic strategies, catastrophic events, religious activities, iconography, and the role of the individual. Together, they offer a pioneering new approach to classical archaeology that it is hoped will further our understanding of the temporal dimensions to archaeological evidence.
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List of Abbreviations
Introduction. The Archaeology of Seasonality: Widening Archaeology’s Interpretational Framework — ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA
I. Economic Strategies in a Seasonal Perspective
Seasonality and Urban Economy: The Case of Gerasa in the Decapolis — ACHIM LICHTENBERGER AND RUBINA RAJA
Seasonal Labour and Migratory Work in the Roman Empire — WERNER TIETZ
Seasonal Diet in the Mediterranean — ERICA ROWAN
Seasonality and the Sea — STEFAN FEUSER
The Seasonality of Building Works in the Athenian Epigraphic Evidence — CRISTINA CARUSI
Flowers and Faeces: Seasonal Signals from Shivta’s Early Islamic Rubbish Middens — DANIEL FUKS, GUY BAR-OZ, YOTAM TEPPER, AND EHUD WEISS
To Everything There Is a Season: The Dynamics of Seasonality in the Deserts of the Southern Levant in Ancient Times — STEVEN A. ROSEN
II. Seasonality, Time, and Chronology
Solar Flare Events and Archaeology — JESPER OLSEN
Seasonality and the Calendar in Ovid’s Exile Poetry — ANKE WALTER
III. Seasonality of Religion
Seasonality of Timpone della Motta (Northern Calabria) during the Iron Age and the Archaic Period — JAN KINDBERG JACOBSEN, FELICE LAROCCA, JOOS MELANDER, AND GLORIA MITTICA
The Sanctuary of Jupiter Dolichenus at Doliche and the Seasonality of Sacrifice — MICHAEL BLÖMER
IV. Seasonality and the Individual
Seasonal Dress in the Graeco-Roman World — GLENYS DAVIES
Lumen ab Occidente Hiberno: Seasonality in the Pompeian Domestic Bath — CRISTINA M. HERNÁNDEZ
Roman Luxury Villas: Environmental Considerations and Seasonal Uses — MANTHA ZARMAKOUPI
Maritime Villas and Seasonality — ANNALISA MARZANO*
Seasonally Adaptive Design in Roman Public Architecture and Urban Space — EDMUND THOMAS
V. Iconography of Seasonality
L’iconografia delle Stagioni nella ceramica magnogreca — MONICA BAGGIO
Visualizing the Passing of Time: Personifications of Seasons in Greek and Roman Imagery — MARION MEYER
Tempora Anni: Time Recurring — DIETRICH BOSCHUNG
VI. Seasonal Dimensions of Catastrophic Events
Tracing the Season of the Santorini (Thera) Eruption — FELIX HÖFLMAYER
The Complicated Problem of Seasonality at Classical Olynthos, Greece — LISA NEVETT
New Evidence for the Date of the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius — MASSIMO OSANNA and CHIARA COMEGNA
Pompeian Houses and Seasonality: A Contextual Approach — PENELOPE ALLISON