Markku Corremans is a Ph.D. student preparing a dissertation in the framework of a project on “Roman and early-Byzantine provincial towns as production-, consumption- and distribution centres. A case study: Sagalassos and its territory”. As such, he is currently conducting research on the import of stone as a building material. He has a master in commercial engineering (1996) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a master in archaeology (2004) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.