Interactions between Industries in Late Antique Church Construction in the Western Provinces

Early church construction relied on complex and intertwined material and social networks, at the elite and lower-class levels. The material networks included reused and recycled Roman materials, and by reconstructing demolition and reprocessing technologies, we can link these materials with processes of construction that we know about from epigraphic evidence. The presence of reused and recycled materials in churches also enables the development of a circular model for construction. The investigation of archaeological remains from church workshops in France and Italy proposes craft zones on construction sites. This allows theorisation of worker interaction points across vertical and horizontal organisational systems.