Research project: Late Roman City Programme (Nicopolis ad Istrum, Bulgaria)
Project details: The Late Roman City Programme (Nicopolis ad Istrum, Bulgaria)
Project director: Andrew Poulter
This long-term research programme was launched to identify changes in the character of cities in late antiquity. It involved major excavations and geophysical exploration on the site of a well-preserved late Roman town. It was demonstrated that radical changes in layout and function occurred in the 5th and 6th centuries AD. The large-scale ceramic and bioarchaeological programme suggested a no less fundamental change in the city's economic base during the early Byzantine period.
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Publications
Published in 3 volumes.
Nicopolis ad Istrum, a Roman, Late Roman and early Byzantine city, Society of Roman Studies, 1995.
Nicopolis ad Istrum, the pottery and the glass, The Society of Antiquaries, 1999.
Nicopolis ad Istrum, the finds and the biological remains, The Society of Antiquaries, 2007