This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for
developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two …

The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it--yet they remain a
shadowy and poorly understood group. The academic study of the Phoenicians has come to …

Livestock dung is a valuable material in many rural communities worldwide. In our research
area, the site of Althiburos and its surroundings, now el Médéïna, in northwestern Tunisia …

The Maghreb is a key region for understanding the dynamics of cattle dispersal and
admixture with local aurochs following their earliest domestication in the Fertile Crescent …

Mediterranean Africa forms a crucial junction between the wider Saharan zone and the rest
of the Mediterranean. In contrast to its well-investigated history from the first millennium BC …

North Africa possesses a rich archaeological heritage, which to a significant degree remains
to be investigated. This chapter reviews the current state of archaeo-geophysical research in …

Fortified farms and other fortified sites were a key component of the Late Antique landscapes
of North Africa. Their presence has been noted in all the Roman provinces in North Africa …

This paper aims to describe the settlement system of Roman-period North
Africathroughtheexaminationof overathousandsites. Inanattempttoavoid some of the …

Historical information is relatively abundant from the third century bce, when the Libyan
states and peoples are referenced in the Greco‐Latin sources in relation to their involvement …

For every designed object or product, engineers, smiths, and artisans keep in mind societal
norms and taboos such as sustainable materials, tasteful morphology, tactile sensations …