Between Continuity and Change: Northern Pisidia through Classical and Late Antiquity

Résumé

Settlement continuity is typically heralded as a hallmark of Graeco-Roman urbanism in Anatolia and in Asia Minor writ large. Yet its conceptual underpinnings, colored as it were by monolithic long-term views of human occupation are called into question by the archaeological data. Recent archaeological surveys in Pisidia bring into focus the pattern of discontinuity that framed the emergence and development of ancient communities and, in particular, the ebb and flow between occupation and abandonment. Moreover, these settlement narratives illustrate the ecological negotiations that underlay human occupation in this region, while also opening vistas onto the ways in which landscapes were experienced, exploited and traversed.