Introduction

This volume of Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentiagathers selected contributions from the workshop City, Hinterland, and Environment: Urban Resilience in the Late Roman and Early Islamic Period,held at the University of Bergen on September 23-25, 2019. Papers approach the topic from a variety of angles,includ-ing cultural and socioeconomic hinterlands and environments in their discussions of urban resilience. The meeting was part of the project Globalization, Urbanization and Urban Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Ro-man and Early Islamic periods funded by Nordforsk (grant no. NOSHSWS-2 00052/NOS-HS), with a workshop on globalization taking place at the University of Helsinki in December 2018, and one on urban religion at Aarhus University in May 2019.