Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The Farmhouse at San Biagio and the Agricultural Landscape of Basilicata in the Roman Period (Liliana Giardino); Introduction; Basilicata under Roman Rule; 2. The Excavation and Structures (Erminia Lapadula); The Setting; The 1980 Excavation; Re-evaluation of the Site's Occupation; Building Materials; Interpretation of the Roman Structure; Virtual Archaeology:A Proposed Reconstruction (Massimo Limoncelli); 3. The Materials: Prehistoric through the Roman Republican Period (Erminia Lapadula); Introduction; Pottery and Other Neolithic Artifacts (Cesare D'Annibale).
  • Figured Pottery (Francesca Silvestrelli)Black Gloss and Grey Ware (Eloisa Vittoria); Banded Ware, Miniatures, and Plain Ware (Anna Cavallo); Cooking Ware (Antonietta Di Tursi); Transport Amphorae (Oda Teresa Calvaruso); Architectural Terracottas (Anna Lucia Tempesta); Coroplastic (Rebecca Miller Ammerman); Loom Weights (Lin Foxhall); 4. The Materials: The Roman Imperial Period (Erminia Lapadula); Study and Presentation of Material; Eastern Terra Sigillata; African Red Slip Ware; Slipped Common Ware; Plain Ware; African Cooking Ware; Cooking Ware; Transport Amphorae; Dolia; Glass Finds.
  • Metal FindsMilling Finds; 5. Furnishings, Utilitarian Artifacts, and Coins (Erminia Lapadula); Introduction; Personal Artifacts; Household Instruments; Spinning, Weaving, and Sewing; Lamps; Tools for Fire-lighting, Carpentry, and Woodworking; The Repair of Dolia; Window Glass; Coins (Anna Rita Parente); 6. Archaeozoology, Archaeometry, and Ceramic Analysis; The Archaeozoological Data (Joseph Coleman Carter); A Goat Skeleton from the Roman Period (László Bartosiewicz); Archaeometric Analyses of Metal, Glass, and Plaster (Claudio Giardino).
  • Microscopy of Selected Pottery Fabrics (Keith Swift with Victoria Leitch)7. Conclusions (Erminia Lapadula); References; Index; Illustration Credits.