The Getae

Ioana A. Oltean is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter, UK. She specializes in the archaeology of the Roman Empire, particularly in its European provinces, and in aerial archaeology; since 1998 she has been involved in establishing aerial reconnaissance as a standard method of archaeological prospection in Romania. Currently she is co-partner in the EU-funded project Archaeolandscapes Europe, promoting international collaboration, knowledge exchange, and technological advancement in remote sensing archaeology. Ioana is author of Dacia: Landscape, Colonization, and Romanization (Routledge, 2007) and co-editor of Archaeology from Historical Aerial and Satellite Archives (2013). Ligia C. Ruscu is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Cluj Napoca, Romania. She specializes in the history of the Greek and Roman presence on the Western Shore of the Black Sea and the impact of the coming of Rome on Greek and indigenous communities in the Western Black Sea region. She is author of The External Relations of the Greek Cities on the Romanian Black Sea Coast (2002). Dan Ruscu is Senior Lecturer in Church History at the University of Cluj Napoca, Romania. He specializes in the history of early Christianity and the Late Antique period in the Lower Danube. Among his published work, including monographs and articles, he is author of a series of studies examining the early Christianity of Dobrogea.

1. Contextualizing Change 2. Dobrogea in Antiquity 3. The Natural Landscape 4. Settlement and Communities 5. Space and Connectedness 6. A Quest for Immortality: Death, Monumentality and Memory in ancient Dobrogea 7. Changes in Late Roman Dobrogea 8. Cultural Change, Imperialism, and the Limes Zone