Les Royaumes d’Afrique du Nord

Bridoux, Virginie

doi:10.4000/books.efr.31955

2020

DOI: 10.4000/books.efr.31955

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Les Royaumes d’Afrique du Nord

Virginie Bridoux¹

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“… 6 McCarty 2010; forthcoming a; forthcoming b. Recent work on the Iron Age has also emphasised tight, regionalised dynamics in the development of societies in the Maghreb: Bridoux 2020; Ardeleanu 2021.…”

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Reforesting Roman Africa: Woodland Resources, Worship, and Colonial Erasures

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2022

J. Rom. Stud.

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Despite a range of literary and archaeological evidence for the importance of forests in Roman Africa, these marginal lands and their marginalised populations have been almost entirely ignored or downplayed by modern scholarship, leading to tortured interpretations of a range of material. This article asks two questions, one historical, the other historiographic: what role did the forests of Africa Proconsularis play in the economies and productive imaginaries of the region's inhabitants? And why have the products, labour and labourers of sylvan industries been largely written out of modern accounts? After drawing together evidence and proxies for the centrality of Africa's pine forests to a range of lifeways, cultural practices and economies — including their fundamental (and overlooked) role in providing the pitch that lined the exported amphorae that drove North Africa's economic boom — I argue that French colonial practices around forests led to their erasure from histories of Roman Africa.

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Reforesting Roman Africa: Woodland Resources, Worship, and Colonial Erasures

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J. Rom. Stud.

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The Urban Biography of a Mauritanian City: Microstratigraphic Analysis of the Eastern Quarter of Tamuda (Morocco)

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The lack of vertical stratigraphic sondages and open area excavations constitutes a challenge to understanding Mauritanian urbanism. This makes the characterization of the spatio-temporal evolution of Mauritanian towns a difficult task. Systematic excavations carried out in Tamuda by several research teams in the twentieth century provided vertical and horizontal views of Mauritanian urbanism. Our study offers, for the first time, a high-resolution geoarchaeological analysis of Tamuda’s urban sequence (third through first century BC). The microfacies analysis, by means of micromorphology and µ-XRF of Spaces E18 and E20 of the Eastern Quarter revealed a complex interaction of deposits and site formation processes that resulted from changes in everyday urban life. In this respect, the overlap of different construction phases and the alternation of episodes of active use and abandonment is highly significant. This study examines the functional characterization of urban spaces, including the identification of midden activities, a roasting pit, and a milling site (possibly) linked to fish flour production. These activities leave traces on beaten floors and occupation surfaces, and several features indicate abandonment periods between short-term occupations. The result is a complex urban biography of this Mauritanian town, in which human occupation was not constant over time.

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Les Royaumes d’Afrique du Nord

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Reforesting Roman Africa: Woodland Resources, Worship, and Colonial Erasures

Reforesting Roman Africa: Woodland Resources, Worship, and Colonial Erasures

The Urban Biography of a Mauritanian City: Microstratigraphic Analysis of the Eastern Quarter of Tamuda (Morocco)

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