This book attempts to bring an anthropological perspective to the
historical archaeology of a complex period in the Greek past.
Traditionally, discussion of the transition from Late Antiquity to
the Early Byzantine period in the Aegean region has focused on the
fate of Classical urban culture. Scholarly opinion is divided as to
whether the Classical polis and its constituent institutions
emerged intact from the disruptive events of the third to sixth
centuries A.D. Over the past two decades a consensus has emerged
that argues that the break between Classical and Byzantine occurred
in the seventh, not the fourth or fifth centuries A.D., and that it
was a more gradual process than previously believed. The present
study examines the Byzantine Fortress at Isthmia in the Peloponnese
with an eye to understanding social change in this critical period,
at the level of the site and then the region, in terms of an
evolutionary perspective . This study focuses on three problems at
different levels of abstraction: (1) A descriptive problem; (2) A
methodological problem; (3) A broader historical problem. The
methodological element becomes the link between the gathering of
site-specific data and the wider historical implications for that
information.
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