Luke Lavan

University of Kent, Archaeology, Faculty Member

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Monographs by Luke Lavan

PUBLIC SPACE IN THE LATE ANTIQUE CITY VOLUME 1: STREETS, PROCESSIONS, FORA, AGORAI, MACELLA, SHOPS. VOLUME 2: SITES, BUILDINGS, DATES

Public Space in the Late Antique City 2 vols, 2020

Table of contents for my monograph. Yours for a snip at 375 euros. https://brill.com/view/title/... more

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Papers-Syntheses (with dropbox links) by Luke Lavan

Polis to Emporion? Retail and regulation in the Late Antique City DOP Trade and Markets

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"Political talismans: residual 'pagan' statues in late antique public space" LAA7 Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism

The agorai of Antioch and Constantinople as seen by John Chrysostom

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The end of the temples: towards a new narrative LAA 7 Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism

The praetoria of civil governors in late antiquity. In: L. Lavan (Ed.): Recent research in late antique urbanism.(Journal of Roman Archaeology supplement …

L. Lavan (Ed.): Recent research in late antique …, 2001

Lavan, LA (2001) The praetoria of civil governors in late antiquity. In: L. Lavan (Ed.): Recent r... more

Fora and agorai in Mediterranean cities during the 4th and 5th c. AD CLICK ON DROPBOX ICON TOP LEFT ON PAGE

Social and political life in late Antiquity, 2006

The residences of late antique governors: a gazetteer

Antiquité tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d' …, 1999

... The residences of late antique governors: a gazetteer. Autores: Luke Lavan; Localización: Ant... more

Papers-Conceptual (with dropbox links) by Luke Lavan

Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches and Field Methods

by Ellen Swift and Luke Lavan

Late Antique Archaeology, 2009

The Political Topography of the Late Antique City: Activity Spaces in Practice

Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology, 2003

Late Antique Urban Topography: From Architecture to Human Space

Late Antique Archaeology, 2003

... It is distinctive in its desire to establish a general framework for ac-28a Thus activity spa... more ... It is distinctive in its desire to establish a general framework for ac-28a Thus activity spaces such as&#x27; practorium&#x27;,&#x27;law court&#x27;,&#x27;curia&#x27;and&#x27;adventus&#x27; would within an overall topographic narrative take a ... 32 See Balty (1991) who shows that the identification of city council chambers ...

Late Antique Archaeology: An Introduction

Late Antique Archaeology, 2003

contents vii LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION LUKE LAVAN The Justification of a Speciali... more

Explaining Technological Change: Innovation, Stagnation, Recession and Replacement

Technology in Transition: AD 300-650, 2007

Papers-Arch. Fieldwork (with dropbox links) by Luke Lavan

"Chronology in Late Antiquity : a Lesson from the Palaestra" in Ricerche su Ostia e il suo territorio edd. Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni , Nicolas Laubry , Fausto Zevi Serie : Collection de l'École française de Rome 553 (Rome 2018)

The Monumental Streets of Sagalassos in Late Antiquity: An Interpretative Study. In: Ballet, Pascale and Dieudonné-Glad, Nadine and Saliou, Catherine, eds. La rue dans l'Antiquité. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008 pp. 201-214. ISBN 978-2-7535-0599-5

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L. Lavan "Ostia, the final flowering of a great city", British Archaeology 147 March-April 2016.pdf Click Dropbox link for a clearer PDF under 'files 2of2'

A review of the Excavation and Survey of the Kent Section of the Late Antique Ostia Project from ... more A review of the Excavation and Survey of the Kent Section of the Late Antique Ostia Project from 2008-2012. A case study in 'archaeological cleaning survey': a form of evaluation archaeology designed to cope with the aftermath of 'clearance' on classical urban sites. We sought out traces of late antiquity from the mess left by Mussolini, who excavated two-thirds of the city in 3 years, for the ill-fated world exhibition of 1942. The result was the recovery of the marble-clad city as Augustine saw it, in 387, at the height of its monumental development.

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Distinctive Field Methods for Late Antique Archaeology: Some Suggestions (LAA9 Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology edd. Lavan and Mulryan)

How to find late antiquity on a clearance excavated mediterraneansite: Archaeological Cleaning, S... more How to find late antiquity on a clearance excavated mediterraneansite: Archaeological Cleaning, Stone Surface Archaeology, Anastylosis and Bauforschung, Behavioural Epigraphy, Epigraphic Context, Epigraphic Spoliation, Building Spoliation and Reuse, Differential Spoliation. Ideas for distinctive methods in Late Antique Urban Archaeology. See also the Agorai of Sagalassos article for a case study.

"The potential of laser scanning for the study of Roman buildings" LAA9 book CLICK DROPBOX LINK FOR PAPER

methodological case studies focusing on Ostia and Pompei, with a foreword on the problems of stud... more

The Agorai of Sagalassos in Late Antiquity: An Interpretive Study LAA9 Fieldwork Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology

Public Space in Late Antique Ostia: Excavation and Survey 2008-2011 AJA 116 (2012) 649-91

PUBLIC SPACE IN THE LATE ANTIQUE CITY VOLUME 1: STREETS, PROCESSIONS, FORA, AGORAI, MACELLA, SHOPS. VOLUME 2: SITES, BUILDINGS, DATES

Public Space in the Late Antique City 2 vols, 2020

Table of contents for my monograph. Yours for a snip at 375 euros. https://brill.com/view/title/... more

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Polis to Emporion? Retail and regulation in the Late Antique City DOP Trade and Markets

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"Political talismans: residual 'pagan' statues in late antique public space" LAA7 Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism

The agorai of Antioch and Constantinople as seen by John Chrysostom

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The end of the temples: towards a new narrative LAA 7 Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism

The praetoria of civil governors in late antiquity. In: L. Lavan (Ed.): Recent research in late antique urbanism.(Journal of Roman Archaeology supplement …

L. Lavan (Ed.): Recent research in late antique …, 2001

Lavan, LA (2001) The praetoria of civil governors in late antiquity. In: L. Lavan (Ed.): Recent r... more

Fora and agorai in Mediterranean cities during the 4th and 5th c. AD CLICK ON DROPBOX ICON TOP LEFT ON PAGE

Social and political life in late Antiquity, 2006

The residences of late antique governors: a gazetteer

Antiquité tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d' …, 1999

... The residences of late antique governors: a gazetteer. Autores: Luke Lavan; Localización: Ant... more

Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches and Field Methods

by Ellen Swift and Luke Lavan

Late Antique Archaeology, 2009

The Political Topography of the Late Antique City: Activity Spaces in Practice

Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology, 2003

Late Antique Urban Topography: From Architecture to Human Space

Late Antique Archaeology, 2003

Late Antique Archaeology: An Introduction

Late Antique Archaeology, 2003

contents vii LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION LUKE LAVAN The Justification of a Speciali... more

Explaining Technological Change: Innovation, Stagnation, Recession and Replacement

Technology in Transition: AD 300-650, 2007

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L. Lavan "Ostia, the final flowering of a great city", British Archaeology 147 March-April 2016.pdf Click Dropbox link for a clearer PDF under 'files 2of2'

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Distinctive Field Methods for Late Antique Archaeology: Some Suggestions (LAA9 Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology edd. Lavan and Mulryan)

"The potential of laser scanning for the study of Roman buildings" LAA9 book CLICK DROPBOX LINK FOR PAPER

methodological case studies focusing on Ostia and Pompei, with a foreword on the problems of stud... more

The Agorai of Sagalassos in Late Antiquity: An Interpretive Study LAA9 Fieldwork Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology

Public Space in Late Antique Ostia: Excavation and Survey 2008-2011 AJA 116 (2012) 649-91

Local Economies? Production and Exchange of Inland Regions in Late Antiquity. (Late Antique Archaeology 10) Leiden. Brill. 615pp. ISSN 1570 6893.

Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology.(Late Antique Archaeology 9) Leiden. Brill. 609pp. ISSN 1570 6893 (edited with Michael Mulryan)

The Archaeology of Late Antique'Paganism

Technology in Transition AD 300-700 (Late Antique Archaeology 4.1) Leiden. Brill. ca. 450pp. ISBN 9789004165496. (Edited with Alex Sarantis and Enrico Zanini)

Housing in late antiquity: from palaces to shops

by Luke Lavan, lale ozgenel, and Yuri Alessandro Marano

... 367 Jeremy J. Rossiter Cappadocia&amp;amp;#x27;s Rock-Cut Courtyard Complexes: a Case Stu... more

Theory and practice in late antique archaeology

by Luke Lavan and Will Bowden

... Reece Part Four: Topography Late Antique Urban Topography: From Architecture to Human Space 1... more

Recent research on the late antique countryside

by Luke Lavan, Will Bowden, and Dr. Lukas Amadeus Schachner

... 73 Frank R. Trombley Part Three: Sacred Landscapes The Fate of Rural Temples in Late Antiquit... more

Recent research in late-antique urbanism

Page 1. &quot;B 5HZ.S7 £ _LEMND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY &quot;THIRD SERIES ju NE i NUM... more

Commercial Space in Late Antiquity

Late Antique Archaeology, 2009

Political Space In Late Antiquity

Objects in Context, Objects in Use, 2008

Social Space In Late Antiquity

Objects in Context, Objects in Use, 2008

Religious Space In Late Antiquity

Objects in Context, Objects in Use, 2008

Late antique urbanism: a bibliographic essay. In: Lavan, L.(Ed.): Recent research in late antique urbanism.(Journal of Roman Archaeology supplement 42 …

Lavan, L.(Ed.): Recent research in late antique …, 2001

Lavan, LA (2001) Late antique urbanism: a bibliographic essay. In : Lavan, L. (Ed.): Recent resea... more

Conference: Late Antique Archaeology 2018: Imperial Archaeologies 1

This meeting in London on 1st December will examine the latest developments in the archaeology of... more This meeting in London on 1st December will examine the latest developments in the archaeology of emperors, kings, and their courts in late antiquity, from palaces and iconography to churches and mausolea. We review fieldwork in Constantinople or imperial capitals within the Empire, but also compare royal courts of adjacent kingdoms in both East & West.

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conf Late Antique Archaeology 2018 Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity

Birkbeck, University of London Saturday 17th March 2018 This conference reviews the state of lat... more Birkbeck, University of London Saturday 17th March 2018

This conference reviews the state of late antique funerary practices, on a thematic basis, from scientific examinations of skeletons and their DNA, to treatments of the deceased body, to the nature of memorial structures and how they were treated over time.

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Conf: FIELDWORK IN LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY: BURIAL London 25Nov2017

Provisional programme (more papers added soon). This seminar reviews the state of funerary archa... more Provisional programme (more papers added soon). This seminar reviews the state of funerary archaeology across the late antique world, providing an up-to-date overview of the latest discoveries in the field and in the lab, organised in terms of series of regional portraits, from the cemeteries of Britain to the caves of Egypt. [email protected] to register.

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Conference: Environment & Society in the 1st Millennium A.D. Late Antique Archaeology 2016

by Luke Lavan and Adam Izdebski

Late Antique Archaeology 2016 ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D. Conference to ... more

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A.H.M. Jones and “the cities” 1964–2004

A.H.M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire, 2007

Christianity, the city, and the end of antiquity. J. H. W. G. LIEBESCHUETZ, THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN CITY (Oxford University Press 2001). Pp. xvii + 479, 22 figs. ISBN 0 18 815247 7. £80 (paperback 2003, £25)

Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2003

What killed the ancient city? Chronology, causation, and traces of continuity. HELEN G. SARADI, THE BYZANTINE CITY IN THE SIXTH CENTURY. LITERARY IMAGES AND HISTORICAL REALITY (Society of Messenian Archaeological Studies, Athens 2006). Pp. 543, 58 figs., 62 plans in text, 20 plans in appendix, 4 ...

Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2009

Material Spatiality In Late Antiquity: An Introduction To The Bibliography

Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity, 2008

Housing in Late Antiquity

Explaining Technological Change: Innovation, Stagnation, Recession and Replacement

Local Economies? Production and Exchange of Inland Regions in Late Antiquity

Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Local economies in late antiquity? : some thoughts / ... more Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Local economies in late antiquity? : some thoughts / Luke Lavan -- The late antique economy : approaches, methods and conceptual issues / Alyssa A. Bandow -- The late antique economy : regional surveys / Andrea Zerbini -- The late antique economy : primary and secondary production / Andrea Zerbini -- The late antique economy : infrastructures of transport and retail / Alyssa A. Bandow -- The late antique economy : ceramics and trade / Stefano Costa -- A comparative perspective on the late antique economy / Mark Whittow -- Integration and disintegration in the late Roman economy : the role of markets, emperors, and aristocrats / Peter Sarris -- Production in inland regions -- Villas, taxes and trade in fourth century hispania / Kim Bowes -- The lessons of Gaulish sigillata and other finewares / Tamara Lewit -- Patterning the late antique economies of inland sicily in a Mediterranean context / Emanuele Vaccaro -- Diana Veteranorum and the dy...

Chronology in Late Antiquity : a Lesson from the Palaestra

Ricerche su Ostia e il suo territorio, 2018

This article deals with the fundamental problem of working in Ostia : how to devise a respectable... more This article deals with the fundamental problem of working in Ostia : how to devise a respectable chronology for a city that was mostly cleared of soil in a few years, with the aid of railways and poor families, for the World Exhibition of 1942. In the absence of photographs and serious notes, we have little to fall back on. I offer a field methodology against despair, applied to the difficult case of the Palaestra. What we need to do is clean up large areas, establish phases between them, and undertake selective excavation of pottery-rich rubbish deposits. From the resultant Harris Matrix, a more nuanced history of Ostia can emerge, of late antique centuries, extending far beyond the « Hadrianic » fantasy of Mussolini. The scale of this exercise makes it possible to assess the reliability and relative utility of different dating methods. Most early methods now fail, but others remain. It seems that future chronology will depend on an uncomfortable cohabitation of old and new.

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