Welcome to LARG!
The Late Antiquity
Research Group ('LARG') was founded in 1996 to help coordinate and
promote the study of Late Antiquity by British-based professional
archaeologists. Its original scope was 'the Roman, and former Roman
world, from AD c.300-c.700 in Europe and the Mediterranean, and
related areas', but it has increasingly become involved in the
archaeology of the Byzantine world as a whole in addition to
these.
LARG has organised a wide range of research-related activities,
including research seminars, conference sessions and fieldwork
projects. For example, jointly with the Research Centre for Late Antique
and Byzantine Studies, it has sponsored a Theoretical Roman Archaeology
Conference (TRAC) session on 'Theorising Late Antiquity' and is a co-sponsor of fieldwork in
Istanbul and of the
Byzantine Ceramics and Building Materials
Project. In 2004, it undertook a revision of the
Late Roman and Byzantine material in the collection of the
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
and become a sponsor for the first Czech archaeological project in Istanbul. It also has an active short monograph series publishing
recent archaeological discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean area.
LARG especially values its research links with overseas
institutions and scholars. These include formal connections with Istanbul
University, the University of Luxembourg, the University of Ioannina and the
Universities of California and Florida. We welcome enquiries from other
institutions that are interested in establishing similar links.
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