Week 4:  Urban archaeology

From Roman to medieval cities: decline or transformation?

• Graham-Campbell and Valor 111-121
  
• see a distribution map of some Late Roman and early medieval urban sites
• see a map of Roman and  medieval London; visit the Mithraeum in London, the Westminster Abbey, the Church of St. Alban, the White Tower, and the Tower Bridge; see a gold coin and a sceatta issued in early medieval London
• see a map of the fort of Caesarodunum and a view of Tours; see examples of North African lamps and a view of the cathedral of Tours
• see a general plan and general views of the Roman city of Gerasa (Jerash)
• see a general plan of Justiniana Prima (Caricin Grad), a view of the excavations, and the reconstruction of the city development during phase 1 and 2

  Medieval cities. Urban growth and life

• Graham-Campbell and Valor 121-153 and 166-169; Carver and Klapste 167-170, 370-407
• see a picture of Richard Hodges (at the time of his Dark Age Economics)
• see a general plan of  Dorestad and of the layout of the buildings, as well as a hoard of Carolingian pennies found on the site
• see a brief presentation of Birka (Sweden) and an aerial view of Haithabu
• see reconstructions of a freighter from the harbor, a Viking-age manual mill with quern stones, and of the female and male dress of the ninth- and tenth-century Haithabu
• visit Novgorod, the most important medieval city in northwestern Russia
• see a map of Venice, and visit the Basilica of  San Marco, as well as the islands of San Francesco del Deserto, Torcello, and Rialto
• visit the amphitheatre in Old Buda and the Buda Castle
• visit the Chester Castle and one of the city's many medieval townhouses