Siedlungsgenese Im Bereich Des Ham.

This work investigates two civil rural settlements in the hinterland of the CCAA (Cologne) in the province of Germania inferior. Both places functioned as a roman villa rustica and they were excavated in the early 1980s before the surface mining operations began here. During the excavation thousands of finds (ceramic, glass, metal, stone and organic materials) and a number of features were discovered. The settlements were of different size, but their historical development and economical situations are comparable. The archaeological evidence presented in this study, combined with the scientific analyses, affords a general reconstruction of a Roman cultural landscape in the first four centuries after Christ. German text.