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Title:Africa Proconsularis, Volume 3 : Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunisia -- Historical Conclusions
Author: Jesper Carlsen, Habib Ben Hassen, Peter Ørsted & Laila Ladjimi Sebaï (eds)
ISBN:8772888288 : 9788772888286
Illustrations:illus
Format:Hardback
Pages:339
Weight: .897 Kg.
Published:Aarhus University Press - December 2000
List Price: 34.25 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:African history: Economic history: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology: African archaeology: Tunisia: Ancient Rome: BCE-c500CE: c500CE-c1000CE


From 1987 to 1990, in collaboration with several Danish research institutes, the Tunisian Institut National de Patrimoine carried out an extensive archaeological survey in the valley known as the Segermes basin, in Tunisia. The results of that work are contained in three volumes entitled 'Africa Proconsularis' This volume reviews the information and looks at the historical conclusions.

Part I: Introduction – Introduction: Segermes: chef lieu régional. Rapport preliminaire et perspectives; The Setting; History and Archaeology - Aims and Methods; Falbe's Visit to Segermes in 1838; Earlier Archaeological Investigations of the Segermes Valley; Settlement Structure. Part II: Infrastructure of the Segermes Valley Centuriation and Infrastructure; Property and Production in the Segermes Valley during the Roman Era. Part III: Production and Population. Part IV: Conclusions: From the Ideal to the Real; The countryside; Population and production; Town-countryside; Territorium and the outside world; History of the valley. Part V: Additional Archaeolgical Fieldwork -- Les tombes rupestres (haouanet) du Jebel Sidi Zid; The Late and Neo-Punic Periods; Trade and Communication. The Pottery Aspects; Ksar Soudane; The Search for Centuriation in the Segermes Valley; Epigraphical Documentation in Segermes.