Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: the non-ceramic finds from the Triconch Palace
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 3841224
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- ISBN
- 9781785708978
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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19
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 358-page volume results from eight years of major excavations and research on the quotidian life of a relatively impoverished Mediterranean town. The Triconch Palace excavations were the first large-scale stratigraphic investigations of a site of this type in a region that has seen limited research on faunal, osteological and environmental evidence. The volume includes new DNA analyses, notably the first identification of brucellosis pathogens in human skeletal material. It publishes in full major numismatic and artefact assemblages. Bowden led the publication project, was chief editor, wrote three chapters, and was principal contributor to two others.
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- Additional information
- This book is the second of two volumes resulting from the 1994-2003 excavations of a palatial late Roman domus in southern Albania (the first published as W. Bowden and R. Hodges, 2011. Butrint 3: Excavations at the Triconch Palace, Oxford). The excavations covered 7500 square-metres and produced over 5000 individual recorded contexts and a rich assemblage of material culture and bioarchaeological evidence. The later stages of this excavation were led by Bowden, who also led post-excavation work that involved an international specialist team from the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and the USA. The excavation and the analysis of the material took place in the often-challenging environment of post-communist Albania involving negotiation with a range of state agencies. Bowden took responsibility for leading the publication of both the excavations and the material, the latter requiring a range of specialist studies. He also undertook the task of integrating these different analyses into an interpretative narrative and ensuring cross-referencing between the different datasets. He contributed the introductory overview chapter and two major chapters that used the material to construct a history of the site across 1600 years. He also contributed significantly to chapters on faunal remains and glass, these last entailing considerable work because of changes in the original research team, which meant that Bowden had to bring the chapters together from notes and archive material. He also researched and collated more than 200 illustrations from primary excavation archives as well as creating or formatting over 40 tables and catalogues. The volume (along with Bowden and Hodges 2011) represents the culmination of 25 years of work to excavate a multi-period site in a little explored part of the Mediterranean and bring it to full publication.
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