Environmental archaeology

This research explores the knowledge of medical techniques during the early 18th century in Boston, Massachusetts, a period of modernization and changing attitudes toward disease. By analyzing archaeoparasitological samples, written accounts, and artifacts associated with medici…

This dissertation concerns human-environment interactions in southeastern Portugal during the centuries following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire. In contrast to the feudal systems that developed across Western Europe outside Iberia, the Islamic polities that control…

This thesis is a study of the ways in which the Late (Neo-) Assyrian empire integrated agricultural practices into its imperial designs. The ancient kingdom of Late Assyria (ca. 900 - 600 BCE) was one of the world's first empires, and at its peak stretched across Iran, Syria, An…

This dissertation examines the changes in Graeco-Roman life that mark the end of antiquity in southern Asia Minor and northwest Syria using the archaeology of the countryside. By 700 CE, the eastern Roman empire had changed fundamentally: many cities had been largely abandoned, …