Code
01D23112
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Archaeology
- History
- Theory and methodology of archaeology
- Other history and archaeology
Keywords
roman north africa
roman archaelogy
roman baths
late antiquity
Geographic and map based
Surveys
Africa
Middle East
Western Europe
Southern Europe
History
Archaeology
Project description
The research project focusses on the changes in Roman bathing habits between the 3rd and 7th century AD in Italy and North-Africa. the emhasis is put on public bathing facilities in an urban environmen: how they changed on an architectural and technical level, how they were re-used and how the communal bathing habit disappeared in large parts of Europe after the Roman era.