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Reynolds, Paul
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Humanities
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Studied for B.A. at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, gaining PhD there in 1991 on the Settlement and Pottery of the Vinalopo Valley (Alicante), AD 400-700, including a detailed review of ceramics and trade in western Mediterranean ports (PhD published as BAR 588 and 604 in 1993 and 1995).
Engaged in the study and publication of ceramics from the British excavations in the Beirut Souks, in Butrint and Durres (Albania), as well as pottery from Carthage, Lepcis Magna, Zeugma and the Homs Survey.
My book Hispania and the Roman Mediterranean, AD 100-700: ceramics and trade was published in 2010. Major projects are the preparation of a volume on Roman Imperial Amphorae of the Athenian Agora and, from 2011, the pottery of Nikopolis (Actium, Epirus, Greece). Co-editor of a new series for Archaeopress (Oxford): Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery.
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Research Interests
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The principal aim of my research is the study of the economy of the Classical and Medieval Mediterranean (and related areas such as the lower Danube and the Black Sea) through the analysis of the regional distribution of ceramics on coastal sites/major ports. This focuses on the long-distance movement of fine table-wares, amphorae and cooking wares. I am interested in all factors that contributed to the supply of goods: private, state, city, ecclesiastical, administrative structures.
I have been or am currently engaged in the classification of the Classical to early Islamic pottery of surveys and excavations from a wide range of sites and regions across the Mediterranean: Alicante-SE Spain, NW Sicily, Carthage (Tunisia), Lepcis Magna (Libya), Butrint and Durres (Albania), Athens (the Athenian Agora), Zeugma-on-the-Orontes (Turkey), Beirut and sites throughout Lebanon, and Syria (Homs survey; Ras al Basit), and in 2011, Nikopolis (Actium, Greece) and Nikopolis-ad-Istrum (Bulgaria).
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KeyWords
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Pottery, amphorae, fine wares, cooking wares, trade, economy, shipping routes, Hellenistic, Roman, Late Antiquity, Mediterranean, Black Sea
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