What happens if we think of roads not only as a static archaeological object but as a dynamic and complex phenomenon?
Inspired by this question, “Archaeologies of Roads” brings together various studies spanning diverse landscapes and epochs. The central premise of the book is to reveal the complexity of the road, be it a modern or an ancient one. The starting point is that the road is not only a container for action but also the action itself; roads are perpetual works in progress, continually shaping and being shaped by the world around them.
Authors contribute with road studies from different contexts, ranging from Bronze Age Pontic–Caspian steppes to Roman Iberia and from Ottoman Anatolia to modern-day China. The book has three sections: routes, methods, and metaphors and constructing histories, reflecting the diversity in and of road studies. As the chapters interweave, they collectively challenge approaches to understanding roads and hopefully inspire readers to transcend conventional boundaries of identification, mapping, and dating of roads. Reflecting the inherent diversity of studying of roads —as a phenomenon, the title of the book calls for many ways of doing road archaeology.
Tuna Kalaycı is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He specializes in remote sensing and GIS applications in archaeology. He received his PhD in 2013 from the University of Arkansas, US. Previously he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Consiglio delle Ricerche Nazionale (CNR, IBAM), Italy, and Durham University, UK. He also worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (IMSFORTH), Greece.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-8-4 (paperback)
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