Mediterranean Urbanisation in North Africa

Wilson, Andrew

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“…Because of the relatively spotty coverage of intensive surveys across North Africa as a whole, large-scale, synthetic projects on topics like neolithization, urbanization, and migration have to rely on settlement data drawn from a variety of sources of varying quality, which are only supplemented by systematic survey in certain cases (e.g., Hobson 2020). Nevertheless, such comparative projects have resulted in new syntheses of sedentarization and neolithization processes, which do not follow the relatively straightforward east-to-west pattern of the northern Mediterranean (Leppard 2021;Lucarini 2016); others have examined Punic, Greek, Roman, and Arab urbanization and state formation (Hobson 2020;Mattingly and Hitchner 1995;Stone 2004Stone , 2020Wilson 2020). Large-scale regional surveys and (Ruíz Zapatero 1996).…”

Section: The Maghrebmentioning

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Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History

Knodell

Wilkinson²,

Leppard

et al. 2022

J Archaeol Res

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In this paper we describe the development and state of archaeological surface survey in the Mediterranean. We focus especially on surface survey as a means of documenting long-term settlement patterns at various scales, as an approach to the archaeology of regions, and as a pathway to the interpretation of past landscapes. Over the last decades, literature on Mediterranean survey has increasingly emphasized a distinct set of practices, viewed both favorably and critically by regional archaeologists in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. We show that Mediterranean survey in fact comprises several discrete regional traditions. In general, these traditions have much to offer to wider dialogues in world archaeology, particularly concerning sampling and research design, the interpretation of surface assemblages, and the integration of complex, multidisciplinary datasets. More specifically, survey investigations of Mediterranean landscapes provide comparative data and potential research strategies of relevance to many issues of global significance, including human ecology, demography, urban-rural dynamics, and various types of polity formation, colonialism, and imperialism.

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Section: The Maghrebmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History

Knodell

Wilkinson²,

Leppard

et al. 2022

J Archaeol Res

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Roman North African Urbanism

Dufton¹,

Fentress²

2022

A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity

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New perspectives on the Roman military base at Bu Njem

Walas

2022

Libyan Stud

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This article revisits archival excavation records of the Roman garrison at Bu Njem. Past research on the archaeology of Bu Njem often considered the site in isolation from its extramural settlement and from the content of its ostraca, focusing on the morphology of the fort, and the composition of the garrison: this offers the opportunity to study the garrison as an extended military community in its interconnected social, cultural and economic settings. Since the completion of fieldwork led by Rebuffat between 1967 and 1980, there have been significant advances to the research on the Garamantes, the understanding of trade in the Sahara and the nature of Rome's North African frontiers. These advances allow for a rethinking of the interpretation of the evidence from Bu Njem. This article focuses on the archaeology of the military base and the extramural settlement. Building on existing research, the results add to interpretations of the activities in the garrison, recognise the urban character of the garrison settlement, and in doing so, improve our understanding of social and economic activities on the frontier.

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Mediterranean Urbanisation in North Africa

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History

Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History

Roman North African Urbanism

New perspectives on the Roman military base at Bu Njem

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