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The Aghlabids and their neighbours : art and material culture in 9th-century North Africa /
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The first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, despite the canonical status of its monuments and artworks in early Islamic art history. The Aghlabids and their Neighbors focuses new attention on this key dynasty. The essays in this volume, produced by an international group of specialists in history, art and architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty's interactions with neighbors in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and revealing the centrality of the dynasty and the region to global economic and political networks.
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1 online resource (xxxviii, 688 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004356047 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Inscribing devotion and death : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa /
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Reliance on essentialist or syncretistic models of cultural dynamics has limited past evaluations of ancient Jewish populations. This reexamination of evidence for Jews of North Africa offers an alternative approach. Drawing from methods developed in cultural studies and historical linguistics, this book replaces traditional categories used to examine evidence for early Jewish populations and demonstrates how direct comparison of Jewish material evidence with that of its neighbors allows for a reassessment of what the category of "Jewish" might have meant in different North African locations and periods and, by extension, elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The result is a transformed analysis of Jewish cultural identity that both emphasizes its indebtedness to larger regional contexts and allows for a more informed and complex understanding of Jewish cultural distinctiveness.
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1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-334) and index. :
9789047423843 :
0927-7633 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Estudios sobre el África romana : culturas e imaginarios en transformación /
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These collected papers are for those who have their gaze fixed on the fascinating mosaic of cultures that was the North-African world from the moment Rome appeared in the region. Most articles are dedicated to the world of images, but other subjects include Historiography, Archaeology of Architecture, and Libyan-Berber ethnicities.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781784919085 (ebook) :
From Hannibal to Saint Augustine : ancient art of North Africa from the Musée du Louvre /
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Catalog of an exhibition of the same title held at Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 6-May 29, 1994, at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 17-Nov. 13, 1994, and at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 2, 1994-Feb. 5, 1995. :
176 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
0963816918
9780963816917
The cutting edge : Khoe-San rock-markings at the Gestoptefontein-Driekuil engraving complex, North West Province, South Africa /
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Addresses rock engravings on the wonderstone hills just outside Ottosdal, South Africa. Much of the rock art has been destroyed due to mining activities, with very few records and the largest remaining outcrop is still threatened. The study hopes to bring this situation to the attention of the public and the heritage authorities.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (x, 394 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784917043 (ebook) :
Environmental change and human culture in the Nile Basin and northern Africa until the second millennium B.C. /
: "Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by the Archaeological Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Pozna n Branch, and the Pozna n Archaeological Museum for the International Commission of the Later Prehistory of the Northeastern Africa, Dymaczewo nea Pozna n, 5-10 September, 1988" -- T.p. verso. : 494 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 8390043416 : 0866-9244 ;
Rus Africum IV : la fattoria Bizantina di Aïn Wassel, Africa Proconsularis (Alto Tell, Tunisia) : lo scavo stratigrafico e i materiali /
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Aïn Wassel is the only rural site of Africa Proconsularis which has been excavated using the stratigraphic method and the detailed results are published in this volume thanks to an archaeological field survey of the surrounding rural region.
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1 online resource (xiv, 438 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691160 (ebook) :
Du capsien chasseur au capsien pasteur : pour un modèle régional de néolithisation /
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Studies on the Capsian culture have been considerably enriched in recent years, but have not yet been properly synthesised to establish the current state of research. This volume draws on recent fieldwork to put forward a model for neolithisation in the Eastern Maghreb.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 89 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271859 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Staying Roman : conquest and identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700 /
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"In 416, when preaching a sermon on the psalms in late Roman Carthage, Augustine was able to ask his audience, 'Who now knows which nations in the Roman empire were what, when all have become Romans, and all are called Romans?'1 Yet already by the time Augustine addressed his Carthaginian audience the continued unity of the Roman Mediterranean was being called into question. The defeat and death of the Roman emperor Valens at Adrianople in 378 had set the stage for a new phase of conflict between the empire and its non-Roman neighbours ; and over the course of the fifth century Roman power collapsed in the West, where it was succeeded by a number of sub-Roman kingdoms. Questions that had seemed trivial to Augustine were suddenly and painfully alive : what did it mean to be 'Roman' in the changed circumstances of the fifth and later centuries? And (from a twenty-first-century perspective) what became of the idea of Romanness in the West once Roman power collapsed?"--
"What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. Using historical, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this study argues that the fracturing of the empire's political unity also led to a fracturing of Roman identity along political, cultural and religious lines, as individuals who continued to feel 'Roman' but who were no longer living under imperial rule sought to redefine what it was that connected them to their fellow Romans elsewhere. The resulting definitions of Romanness could overlap, but were not always mutually reinforcing. Significantly, in late antiquity Romanness had a practical value, and could be used in remarkably flexible ways to foster a sense of similarity or difference over space, time and ethnicity, in a wide variety of circumstances"--
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2004, entitled: Staying Roman : Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines in late antique North Africa, 400-700. :
xviii, 438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-419) and index. :
9780521196970
Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya : the contest for North Africa (12th and 13th centuries) /
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In Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya , Amar Baadj gives us the first comprehensive, modern study of a fascinating but little-known episode in the history of the medieval Mediterranean. This is the story of the long struggle between the Almohad caliphs of the Maghrib, the Banū Ghāniya of Majorca, and the Ayyubids for dominance of North Africa. The author makes use of important textual sources that have been ignored as well as new archaeological evidence to challenge some of the basic assumptions about the events in question. He also successfully places these events in their wider temporal and geographical context for the first time.
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto, 2012. :
1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-229) and index. :
9789004298576 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Fish-salting in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity : a gazetteer of sites and resources /
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This volume is a detailed gazetteer of fish-salting production in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity. It consists of a catalogue of fish-salting sites in addition to catalogues of other related resources that are necessary for the production and trans-shipment of the industry's products: salt and amphorae kilns.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784912420 (PDF ebook) :
Methods in the Mediterranean : historical and archaeological views on texts and archaeology /
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This collection of essays treats the fundamental issue of the correlation of archaeology and texts in recreating the ancient Mediterranean world. Contributions from Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians address specific points of correlation, and their potential for future productive research in the Mediterranean. After an introduction to the issue of texts and archaeology, the essays treat concepts such as: site as text, artifactual contingency of meaning, correlating survey with documents, contextual independence of evidence, textual bases for archaeological approaches, and correlating faunal evidence with texts. This book will be of important use to archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean, and scholars of archaeological research in historical archaeology in general.
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1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-292) and index. :
9789004329409 :
0169-8958 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.