This is one of five volumes being published by the POPULUS project, a European research network funded by the EU Human Capital and Mobility programme (Contract ERB CHRXCT930305) to address a series of methodological issues in Mediterranean landscape archaeology. THE POPULUS VOLUMES The five Colloquia are being published as a series by Oxbow Books under the title Mediterranean Landscapes, with Graeme Barker and David Mattingly as Series Editors. The five volumes are: 1. Reconstructing Past Population Trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000 BC -AD 1800) edited by John Bintliff and Kostas Sbonias; 2.