Contents -- Acknowledgements (Introduction) -- Introduction -- Explaining Technological Change: Innovation, Stagnation, Recession and Replacement (Luke Lavan) -- The Transmission of Craft Techniques according to the Principles of Material Culture: Continuity and Rupture (Tiziano Mannoni) -- Bibliographic Essays -- Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay (Philip Bes) -- Metal Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Note (Nathalie Kellens) -- Glass Technology in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Note (Veerle Lauwers) -- Agriculture -- Water into Wine: Trade and Technology in Late Antiquity (Michael Decker) -- Wine-Making after Pliny: Viticulture and Farming Technology in Late Antique Italy (Jeremy Rossiter) -- Absent-Minded Landlords and Innovating Peasants? The Press in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean (Tamara Lewit) -- Production -- Ceramic Production in Africa during Late Antiquity: Continuity and Change (Michel Bonifay) -- Form, Function and Technology in Pottery Production from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (Paul Arthur) -- Metal Production in Late Antiquity: from Continuity of Knowledge to Changes in Consumption (Enrico Giannichedda) -- Glass in Late Antiquity: The Continuity of Technology and Sources of Supply (Lucia Saguí) -- Glass in Late Antiquity in The Near East (Margaret O'Hea) -- Engineering -- The Infrastructure of a Great City: Earth, Walls and Water in Late Antique Constantinople (James Crow) -- Water Technology at Gortyn in the 4th-7th c. A.D.: Transport, Storage and Distribution (Elisabetta Giorgi) -- Late Antique Urban Streets at Sagalassos (Femke Martens) -- Antique Engineering in the Byzantine World (Michael J. T. Lewis) -- Building -- Technology and Ideas: Architects and Master-Builders in the Early Byzantine World (Enrico Zanini).

The Art of Building in Milan during Late Antiquity: San Lorenzo Maggiore (Laura Fieni) -- Public and Private Building Activity in Late Antique Rome (Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani) -- Architecture and Infrastructure in the Early Medieval Village: the Case of Tuscany (Marco Valenti) -- Umayyad Building Techniques and the Merging of Roman-Byzantine and Partho-Sassanian Traditions: Continuity and Change (Ignacio Arce) -- Index.