Housing and habitat in the ancient Mediterranean : cultural and environmental responses / edited by A. Andrea Di Castro and Colin A. Hope ; assisted by Bruce E. Parr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Di Castro, Angelo Andrea, editor.

Hope, Colin A., editor.

Parr, Bruce E., editor.

Series:

Bulletin antieke beschaving. Supplement ; 0165-9367 26.

Babesch : annual papers on Mediterranean archaeology. Supplement, 0165-9367 ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Cities and towns, Ancient.

Architecture, Ancient.

Housing.

Dwellings.

Mediterranean Region.

Dwellings--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.

Housing--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.

Architecture, Ancient--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.

Cities and towns, Ancient--Mediterranean Region--History--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization--Congresses.

Civilization.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 323 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2015.

Summary:

"This volume presents the outcome of the international conference 'Housing and Habitat in the Mediterranean World: responses to different environments' that celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Monash University Centre in Prato in 2011. It incorporates comparative and recent research on the housing in the Mediterranean world investigating social, cultural and environmental aspects. The topics of the contributions deal with the development and internationalisation of domestic architecture in the Mediterranean, the transformation and diffusion of different housing typologies, the implications for social interaction, and the adaptation to varying regional environments of Classical models of housing. The contributors present new archaeological data and fresh interpretations, various theories, methods and evidence to investigate the characteristics of and change in social space and dynamics in both the urban and rural environment. Rather than dealing with one discrete region or time frame, the aim of the conference and these papers is diachronic, incorporating data from around the entire region and ranging broadly across the 1st millennium BCE to Late Antiquity. In so doing, regional characteristics can be highlighted but also compared with contemporary developments throughout the region and long-term trends, both local and again regional, can be identified. The volume illustrates different priorities in the study of housing and habitat that hopefully will prove stimulating to all researchers concerned with the lived-in environment"--Amazon.

Contents:

Introduction. Investigating housing and habitat in the Mediterranean world / Angelo Andrea Di Castro

Phoenician and Punic Interactions. Changing responses to changing environments : documenting socio-cultural change and demographic evolution through the built environment in South Iberia, circa 900-600 BCE / Eleftheria Pappa ; Decorating floors. : The Tesserae-in-mortar technique as a Mediterranean phenomenon in housing in Carthage and beyond / Birgit Tang

Etruscan Civilization. Urbanism, houses and society in the early centuries of Etruscan civilization / Giovannangelo Camporeale ; Town and countryside in Archaic Etruria : comparing dwelling realities / Luigi Donati ; Hilltop settlements in Northern Etruria : the case of Pietramarina (Carmignano, Prato) / Maria Chiara Bettini ; Etruscans in the Po Valley, Etruria : urbanism and domestic architecture / Elisabetta Govi

Greek and Hellenistic World. OIKOS KALOS: the environmental logic of Greek urban house forms / Bradley A. Ault ; The economics of house construction and the temporality of daily life : quantifying construction practices to understand economic organisation, time and space in Archaic Megara Hyblaea / Matthew Fitzjohn ; Understanding variation in ancient house-forms : a preliminary discussion / Lisa c. Nevett ; The housing Insula at Seleukid Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates / Heather Jackson ; The Classical/Hellenistic courtyard building at Düzen Tepe (SW Turkey). : Hypotheses on the factors influencing house form and functions / Kim Vyncke and Marc Waelkens

Eastern Mediterranean World. Classical influences on the domestic architecture of the Graeco-Roman Fayyum sites / Paola Davoli ; Inside and out : Romano-Egyptian houses from the Fayyum and Dakhleh Oasis / Anna Lucille Boozer ; The Roman-period houses of Kellis in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis / Colin A. Hope ; The environment within : the archaeological context of the texts from House 3 at Kellis in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis / Gillian E. Bowen ; A house, but not exactly a home? : The painted residence at Kellis revisited / Helen Whitehouse ; Domestic architecture in Roman Syria / Andrea U. De Giorgi

Roman Italy. 'Everyday' eating and drinking in Roman domestic contexts / Penelope Allison ; Apartments and independent living quarters in the Roman houses : a comparative perspective / Anna Anguissola ; Ter Limen Tetigi : exploring the role of thresholds in the houses of Pompeii and beyond / M. Taylor Lauritsen.

Greek and Hellenistic World. OIKOΣ ΚΑΛOΣ : the environmental logic of Greek urban house forms / Bradley A. Ault ; The economics of house construction and the temporality of daily life : quantifying construction practices to understand economic organisation, time and space in Archaic Megara Hyblaea / Matthew Fitzjohn ; Understanding variation in ancient house-forms : a preliminary discussion / Lisa c. Nevett ; The housing Insula at Seleukid Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates / Heather Jackson ; The Classical/Hellenistic courtyard building at Düzen Tepe (SW Turkey). : Hypotheses on the factors influencing house form and functions / Kim Vyncke and Marc Waelkens

Notes:

Proceedings of an international conference held at the Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, June 29-July 1, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789042933262

9042933267

OCLC:

944008682

Publisher Number:

9789042933262