Simon J Barker Editor & Author

Emanuele E. Intagliata is Assistant Professor in the Archaeology of Urban Networks and Exchange at Aarhus University (UrbNet). He has published extensively on the history and archaeology of central Syria, and is currently working on city defences in the Near East and Asia Minor, with specific focus on Palmyra, eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus. Christopher Courault is a research associate at the University of Geneva and member of the Archaeological Research Group Antiguas Ciudades de Andalucía, University of Cordoba. His Ph.D. focused on the city wall of Cordoba and its evolution from the Republican Roman period to early Islamic times. Simon J. Barker is postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian Institute in Rome. He has published extensively on recycling and re-use in the Roman Empire, as well as the role of marble as a decorative material in the villas and houses of the Vesuvian area. His current research focuses on recycling and re-use in Late Antiquity, particularly with reference to spolia-use in an empire-wide perspective.