posted on 2016-03-14, 15:27authored byNeil J. Christie
This volume has, to me, revealed an exciting vitality to the
study of what might be termed a ‘discarded’ urban past. I
say ‘discarded’ in the sense that the majority of the sites
explored in this publication and explored by a mass of skilled
workers on the ground are ‘lost’ or, in other words, ‘failed’
sites. The label can seem applicable when such sites are
visited – often the fragments of buildings are scattered and
discarded in their landscape, sometimes near their original
setting, but often shifted, and, in other cases, reused in
medieval to modern contexts, whether houses, field walls or terracing. But what all these papers do is to relocate
these discards, to trace their settings, and to breathe life
into these lost towns. [Opening paragraph]
History
Citation
Christie, NJ, Urban landscapes surveys: a view from the end, ed. Vermeulen, F;Burgers, G-J;Keay, S;Corsi, C, 'Urban Landscape Survey in Italy and the Mediterranean', Oxbow Books, 2012, pp. 232-235
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Archaeology and Ancient History/Core Staff