Tamara Lewit

A Viewpoint on Eastern Mediterranean Villages in Late Antiquity

Tamara Lewit

Journal article  |  2020  |  Studies in Late Antiquity

The 4th to 6th centuries CE were a time of natural disasters including plague, earthquakes, and climatic instability, as well as w..

Invention, Tinkering, or Transfer? Innovation in Oil and Wine Presses in the Roman Empire

Tamara Lewit

Book Chapter  |  2020

A conceptual framework derived from Cato, Pliny, and Hero has dominated historical discussions of Roman innovation, which have foc..

Review of Dodd, E. Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean Antiquity (Archaeopress, Oxford)

Tamara Lewit

Journal article  |  2020  |  European journal of postclassical archaeologies

Review of Caraher, W., Davis, T., and Pettegrew, D. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology. (OUP, Oxford)

Tamara Lewit

Journal article  |  2020  |  Hortus Artium Medievalium

"terris, vineis, olivetis …”: Wine and Oil Production After the Villas

Tamara Lewit

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies

The production of wine and oil during post-villa occupation at a site deserves special attention as an indicator of continued expl..

Settlement, Land Use and Society in the Late Antique Mediterranean, 4th–7th c. An Overview

Alexandra Chavarría, Tamara Lewit, Adam Izdebski

Book Chapter  |  2019

Pliny’s Presses: the True Story of the First Century Wine Press

Tamara Lewit, Paul Burton

Journal article  |  2019  |  Klio

In a much-quoted passage of the “Natural History”, Pliny describes several wine press mechanisms. This description is of great his..

Settlement, Land Use and Society in the Late Antique Mediterranean, 4th–7th c. An Overview

Alexandra Chavarria, Tamara Lewit, Adam Izdebski

Book Chapter  |  2019  |  Late Antique Archaeology

The volume contains both systematic overviews of the previous scholarship and available data, as well as a number of interdiscipli..

‘Wine and oil presses in the Roman to Late Antique Near East and Mediterranean: Balancing textual and archaeological evidence’

T LEWIT, P Burton

Book Chapter  |  2018

Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity. Selected Essays

Tamara Lewit

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Classical Review

Uomini ed animali nell'Italia longobarda

A Chavarría, T Lewit

Reference Work  |  2017

The lessons of Gaulish sigillata and other finewares

T Lewit

Journal article  |  2015  |  Late Antique Archaeology

Abstract Terra sigillata production in Gaul provides us with an excellent opportunity to examine the evolution of one particular f..

The Second Sea: Exchange between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in late antiquity

T LEWIT

Journal article  |  2015  |  European Journal of Post- Classical archaeologies

The Mysterious Case of La Graufesenque? Stimuli to Large-Scale Fine Pottery Production and Trade in the Roman Empire

T Lewit

Book Chapter  |  2013

Oil and wine press technology in its economic context: Screw presses, the rural economy and trade in late antiquity

T Lewit

Journal article  |  2012  |  Antiquite Tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d'archeologie

Dynamics of fineware production and trade: The puzzle of supra-regional exporters

T Lewit

Journal article  |  2011  |  Journal of Roman Archaeology

Pigs, presses and pastoralism: Farming in the fifth to sixth centuries AD

T Lewit

Journal article  |  2009  |  Early Medieval Europe

Absent-minded landlords and innovating peasants? The press in Africa and the eastern mediterranean

T Lewit

Book Chapter  |  2007  |  Late Antique Archaeology

The screw mechanism for wine and oil presses was widely applied in the eastern Mediterranean only in Late Antiquity, about half a..

Footprints in the later Roman countryside: A response

T Lewit

Journal article  |  2006  |  Journal of Roman Archaeology

Stories in the Ground: Settlement Remains and Archaeology as Narrative in the Fourth- to Sixth-Century Eastern Mediterranean

T Lewit

Book Chapter  |  2006

Villas, Farms and the Late Roman Rural Economy: Third to Fifth Centuries AD

T Lewit

Book  |  2004

Archaeological Research On The Late Antique Countryside: A Bibliographic Essay

undefined Chavarria, T Lewit

Book Chapter  |  2004

'Vanishing Villas': what happened to elite rural habitation in the West in the 5th-6th c?

T Lewit

Journal article  |  2003  |  Journal of Roman Archaeology

A CONTRACT WITH THE BARBARIANS - ECONOMICS AND THE FALL OF ROME

JL ANDERSON, T LEWIT

Journal article  |  1992  |  Explorations in Economic History

ROMAN DOMESTIC CULT IN ITALY AND BEYOND - (M.) Bassani Sacra privata nell'Italia centrale. Archeologia, fonti letterarie e documenti epigrafici. Pp. 362, b/w & colour ills. Padova: Padova University Press, 2017. Paper, €50. ISBN: 978-88-6938-109-6. - (M.) Bassani Sacraria. Ambienti e piccoli edifici per il culto domestico in area vesuviana. (Antenor Quaderni 9.) Pp. 272, b/w & colour ills. Rome: Quasar, 2008. Paper, €72. ISBN: 978-88-7140-373-1.

Tamara Lewit

Journal article  |  The Classical Review