When did Antiquity End Archaeological case studies in three continents.

This book contains four articles in Italian, two in English, and one each in German and French.The problem of threshold of the 8th century, identified at Rome as a kind of watershed between Antiquity and the Middle Ages is a crucial issue today in studies in the transformations of late antique Mediterranean trade. The intention of the congress is to investigate the most recent archaeological, historical, epigraphic and legal data on production in order to see if this chronological and cultural term is valid also for other regions of the Mediterranean. This conference was held at the University of Trento on April 29-30, 2005.