Life Along Communication Routes From the Roman Period to the Middle Ages : Roads and Rivers 2

Life along Communication Routes from the Roman Period to the Middle Ages is the result of the conference Roads and Rivers 2 held at the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb in 2020, enriched with additional invited contributions. The volume presents the latest research on Roman roads, not just in terms of their basic infrastructure but also exploring various aspects of life that were connected with it, from the Imperial period to that of decline, acculturation and integration of new identities, within the three Roman provinces of Pannonia, Moesia and Dalmatia. Within this area, various studies of new finds, alongside new observations and ideas are presented. They add to our knowledge not just of the Roman roads themselves but also about roadside stations and other facilities in various landscape contexts (such as Mediterranean and continental areas). The contributions also investigate the distribution of goods and ideas from the Roman period to the Middle Ages, and deal with different aspects of life as it developed and was transformed along Roman roads. Cover 1 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Contents Page 5 List of contributors 6 Introduction 9 Šibenik’s Donje Polje 11 Toni Brajković, Andrija Nakić and Željko Krnčević 11 Discovering Roman Roads of the Trilj Area 20 Domagoj Bužanić, Jelena Bužanić, Blaž Glavinić, Karla Ivak, Marko Jukić, Lucija Prusac, Domagoj Tončinić and Ivan Vidović 20 A Fort on the Road 31 Andrej Janeš and Nikolina Vrančić 31 An Island of Connectedness: Intra-Insular and Inter-Regional Communications of Rab Island (North-East Adriatic, Kvarner Gulf), Croatia 39 Ana Konestra, Fabian Welc and Paula Androić Gračanin 39 The Roadside Station at Žuta Lokva 53 Ivana Ožanić Roguljić 53 Petrijanec-Aqua Viva 57 Lovorka Štimac-Dedić 57 The unknown about the known: the Možđenec-Sudovec Roman road 65 Jere Drpić 65 New Data, Old Town: The Case of Aquae Balissae 72 Andrej Janeš, Marina Matković Vrban and Ivana Hirschler Marić 72 The Road from Mursa to the North: Segments of the Road in Remote Sensing Data 79 Mislav Fileš and Miroslav Vuković 79 On the Road from Ad Herculem to Rittium (Segment Čortanovci-Surduk) 87 Biljana Lučić, Alessandro De Rosa, Sara Zanni, Gorana Lemajić, Sonja Štefanski-Zorić, Radoslav Muždeka and Uroš Nikolić 87 Lifeline of the Frontier: The Road and Port Network and the Concept of Supply and Distribution in Moesia Superior 118 Nemanja Mrđić and Angelina Raičković Savić 118 Signposts of Settlement: Roman Communications and Avar-Age Sites in Continental Croatia: Overlap Pattern Analysis 127 Lorena Jurakić and Pia Šmalcelj Novaković 127 Small Items, Big Results 140 Anita Rapan Papeša 140