Tamara Lewit

Tamara’s secrets

Tamara Lewit

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

As the historical researcher for The Boy Who Stepped Through Time, I felt a buzz of excitement every time my phone beeped with ano..

A view point on Eastern Mediterranean villages in late antiquity: Applying the lens of community resilience theory

T 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..

Book Review: ROMAN DOMESTIC CULT IN ITALY AND BEYOND - (M.) Padova University Press, 2017.

Tamara Lewit

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Classical Review

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

“Terris, vineis, olivetis…”: Wine and oil production after the villas

T Lewit

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

© 2020, Societa Archeologica. All rights reserved. The production of wine and oil during post-villa occupation at a site deserves ..

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

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  |  2019

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

Tamara Lewit, Paul Burton

Journal article  |  2019  |  Klio: Beitraege zur Alten Geschichte

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..