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The archaeology of housing shifts from city to countryside during the Byzantine period. In late antiquity, houses are best attested in the cities, where they were typically centered on an interior peristyle court. This changed from the fifth century, when the traditional peristyle houses started to decay, were subdivided, and eventually given up. Most evidence for Byzantine housing comes from the countryside, where peristyle courts were the exception and buildings were often arranged in a block form. Early Byzantine village houses are well attested along the south coast of Anatolia, middle Byzantine country houses among the rock-cut architecture of Cappadocia, elite houses, often in isolated rural locations and with defensive features, in all parts of Anatolia and throughout the Byzantine period. The various Byzantine houses followed a continuous tradition from the early through the middle Byzantine period.
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