Kenneth Rainsbury DarkFSA (born in Brixton, London in 1961) is a British archaeologist who works on the 1st millennium AD in Europe (including Roman and immediately post-Roman Britain) and the Roman and Byzantine Middle East, on the archaeology of religion (especially early Christian archaeology), archaeological theory and methods, and on the relationship between the study of the past and contemporary global political, cultural and economic issues.
"The Roman-Period and Byzantine Landscape between Sepphoris and Nazareth", Palestine Exploration Quarterly 140.2, 2008, 1-16.
"Roman Architecture in the Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors at Constantinople During the Sixth to Ninth Centuries" Byzantion 77, 87-105
"Globalizing Late Antiquity. Models, metaphors and the realities of long-distance trade and diplomacy", in A. L. Harris (ed.), Incipient Globalization? Long-distance trade in the sixth century AD, Oxford, 2007, 3-14
"The Byzantine Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Baptistery of Church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul" (Co-author), Architectura 2, 2006, 113–30.
"Archaeology and the Origins of Insular Monasticism" Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture 5, for 2004, 2006, Cambridge
"The eastern harbours of Early Byzantine Constantinople", Byzantion 75, 2005, 152–63.
"The archaeological implications of fourth- and fifth-century descriptions of villas in the north-west provinces of the Roman Empire", Historia 54/3, 2005, 331–42.
"Late Antique Landscapes in Britain", in S.Scott and N.Christie (eds), Landscapes of Change, London, 2005, 279–99.
"Houses, Streets and Shops in Byzantine Constantinople from the fifth to the twelfth centuries", Journal of Medieval History 30, 2004, 83-107.
"Proto-industrialization and the economy of the Roman Empire", in M. Polfer (ed.), L’artisanat romain: évolutions, continuités et ruptures (Italie et provinces occidentales). Actes du 2ème colloque d’Erpeldange (26–28 octobre 2001), organisé par le Séminaire d’Études anciennes du Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg et Instrumentum (Monographies Instrumentum 20), Montagnac, 2001, 19–29.
Ken Dark: Nazareth Archaeology Project 2007. Field Work, Travel, and Research Reports: Byzantium. (reed here)
Ken Dark. Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other fields (Thomson Gale: 2008)
Hammond, Norman. How Roman Britain went on and on. The Times. 17 April 1998. (reed here)