出版社：Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology
摘要：During the third to seventh centuries C.E., the Roman province of Scythia Minor,located in modern-day southeastern Romania, was repeatedly overrun by Gothic,Hunnic and other barbarian invasions from the north, which, according to Zosimus,Philostorgios and other historians of the late empire, ravaged the countryside andeven led to the capture and destruction of several frontier forts and settlements.Thus, the system of frontier forts that had been established along the Black Seacoast and Danube since the second century C. E. was likely repeatedly modifiedand developed to combat these persistent threats. Although the fortifications areoften separated and categorized by size or function, ranging from smaller towersto larger forts and fortified cities, the purposes of all these constructions ultimatelylie rooted in control and defense, and the individual fortifications themselvesalmost always worked in tandem with other installations. Using two missing sitesas case studies,my research takes an interdisciplinary and spatial approach aimedat exploring how these sites can be located, and how their placement affects howpeople living on this Roman frontier reacted under nearly, four centuries of externaland! internal pressures.
