This mammoth study of regional trends in imports of pottery and foodstuffs in the Western Mediterranean in the late Roman, Visigothic and Early Arab periods grows out of the author's fieldwork in the Vinalop Valley (Alicante). Discerning significant differences to other West Mediterranean contexts in the sources of imported pottery there, Reynolds went on to explore the composition of fine ware, coarse ware and amphora assemblages in a large sample...