Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Settlement Patterns of the Coast Lands of Western Rough Cilicia - Paperback

by Richard E. Blanton (Author)

This volume forms the report of an archaeological survey project carried out in an area of the coastal strip of southern Turkey. Tha aims of the project were to identify and investigate patterns of rural settlement, provide information on the process of local urbanism and to put this within the context of social formations in other Mediterranean regions. Through pedestrian survey, site densities could be studied by period and speculation was made of the factors causing and creating rural and economic development, the impact of local and wider administration on the area, urban and rural relationships, population growth and the processes of population growth and decline.