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Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology (2023)
Book Chapter
Bowden, W. (in press). Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology. In Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity. London: Taylor and Francis Group

This paper argues that late antique archaeologists’ focus on space (particularly urban space) reflects the origins of late antique archaeology in challenges to paradigms of “decline” as well as the broader disciplinary histories of classical archaeol... Read More about Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology.

The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans (2019)
Book Chapter
Bowden, W. (2019). The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans. In W. R. Caraher, T. W. Davis, & D. K. Pettegrew (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology (537-556). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199369041.013.26

Textual sources attest to the early spread of Christianity across the Balkan region, and archaeological evidence demonstrates how the new religion transformed the built environment and material culture of the area in Late Antiquity, although dating a... Read More about The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans.

The villas of the eastern Adriatic and Ionian coastlands (2018)
Book Chapter
Bowden, W. (2018). The villas of the eastern Adriatic and Ionian coastlands. In A. Marzano, & G. Metraux (Eds.), Roman villas in the Mediterranean Basin: late Republic to late antiquity (317-327). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316687147

This paper examines the Roman villas of the coastal regions of the Ionian and eastern Adriatic seas, covering their development from the early Imperial period until late antiquity.