Micro-regional Urbanism: An Ancient Urban Landscape in Roman North Africa

Scheding, Paul; Ligt, Luuk de; Bintliff, John

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“…The goal is not only one of building more comprehensive urban histories, but of restoring agency by observing material traces of how non-elite people actively shaped their urban landscape, and how cityscapes shaped their experiences in return (cf. Scheding, 2020). The project seeks to address these aims through an efficient approach that targets urban areas relevant to non-elite lifeways, while integrating palaeoenvironmental analysis with more traditional architectural and landscape archaeological study (see below).…”

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The Falerii Novi Project

Andrews,

Bernard,

Dodd

et al. 2023

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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The Falerii Novi Project represents a newly formed archaeological initiative to explore the Roman city of Falerii Novi. The project forms a collaboration of the British School at Rome with a multinational team of partner institutions. Thanks to a rich legacy of geophysical work on both the site and its territory, Falerii Novi presents an exceptional opportunity to advance understanding of urbanism in ancient and medieval Italy. The Falerii Novi Project employs a range of methodologies, integrating continued site-scale survey with new campaigns of stratigraphic excavation, archival research and environmental archaeology. The project aims to present a more expansive and holistic urban history of this key Tiber Valley settlement by focusing on long-run socio-economic processes both within Falerii Novi and as they linked the city to its wider landscape.

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The Falerii Novi Project

Andrews,

Bernard,

Dodd

et al. 2023

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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Urban transformation in the Central Medjerda Valley (north-west Tunisia) in late antiquity and the middle ages: a regional approach

et al. 2022

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Recent scholarship on North African cities has done much to dispel earlier assumptions about late antique collapse and demonstrate significant continuity into the Byzantine and medieval periods. Yet urban changes did not affect North Africa evenly. Far less is known about the differing regional trajectories that shaped urban transformation and the extent to which pre-Roman and Roman micro-regions continued to share meaningful characteristics in subsequent periods. This article provides a preliminary exploration of regional change from the fourth to the eleventh century focused on a zone in the Central Medjerda Valley (Tunisia) containing the well-known sites of Bulla Regia and Chimtou. We place these towns in their wider historical and geographical setting and interrogate urban change by looking at investment in public buildings and spaces, religious buildings and housing, and ceramic networks. The process of comparison identifies new commonalities (and differences) between the sites of this stretch of the Medjerda River and provides a framework for understanding the many transformations of North African cities over the long late antiquity.

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The ‘Place’ of Urban Wineries and Oileries in the Greek and Roman World

Dodd,

Van Limbergen

2024

Journal of Urban Archaeology

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Micro-regional Urbanism: An Ancient Urban Landscape in Roman North Africa

Cited by 3 publications

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The Falerii Novi Project

The Falerii Novi Project

Urban transformation in the Central Medjerda Valley (north-west Tunisia) in late antiquity and the middle ages: a regional approach

The ‘Place’ of Urban Wineries and Oileries in the Greek and Roman World

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