@inbook{11e6f5a03c9711ddb7b4000ea68e967b,
title = "Households at Pella, Jordan: domestic destruction deposits of the mid-8th c",
abstract = "The excavation of six courtyard houses at Pella in the Jordan Valley, destroyed in a massive earthquake in the mid-eighth century AD, gives an exceptional opportunity to study a wide range of objectives from daily life within a secure archaeological context. The recovery of detailed information about the layout of buildings and the contextual origin of the many domestic objects recovered permit a full reconstruction of life in the household, especially the use of space. Generally, the upstairs area served as the primary living quarters, whereas the ground floor was used to house valuable domestic animals and for light workshop activities.",
author = "Walmsley, {Alan George}",
note = "This book promotes the study of material spatiality in late antiquity: not just the study of buildings, but of the people, dress and objects used within them, drawing on all available source material. It seeks to explore the material world as it was lived in late antiquity, in an interpretative inquiry, rather than simply describing the evidence that has survived until today. The volume presents a series of comprehensive bibliographic essays which provide an overview of relevant literature, along with discussions of the nature of the sources, of relevant approaches and field methods. The main section of the book explores domestic space, vessels in context, dress, shops and workshops, religious space, and military space. Synthetic papers drawing on a wide range of archaeological, art-historical and textual sources are complemented by case-studies of context-rich late antique sites in the East Mediterranean and elsewhere, including Pella, Dura-Europos, Scythopolis, and Sagalassos.",
year = "2007",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004165502",
series = "Late Antique Archaeology",
publisher = "Brill",
number = "5",
pages = "239--272",
editor = "Luke Lavan and Ellen Swift and Toon Putzeys",
booktitle = "Objects in Context, Objects in Use",
address = "Netherlands",
}