Building the Countryside: Rural Architecture and Settlement in the Tripolitanian Countryside

Author:   Nichole Sheldrick
Publisher:   Society for Libyan Studies
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9781900971775


Pages:   250
Publication Date:   10 December 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Building the Countryside: Rural Architecture and Settlement in the Tripolitanian Countryside


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This volume brings together data collected from both previously published surveys and new data collected using satellite imagery on the architecture and construction of over 2,400 rural structures in nine different regions of Tripolitania and dating between the 1st c. BC and the 7th c. AD. This first part contextualises the material within the historical background of Tripolitania, previous investigations and methodological foundations, the evidence for pre-Roman architectures and settlement, and the chronology of rural settlement during the period under study based on ceramic evidence. The second part presents quantitative and qualitative analyses of the physical characteristics first of Roman military structures, and then of the main group of buildings under investigation: unfortified and fortified farm buildings. The ways in which different spaces may have been utilised and the spatial relationships between the settlement groups formed by these buildings provide insight into how and why different types of buildings developed in the countryside during between the 1st c. BC and the 7th c. AD. These analyses demonstrate that the rural buildings of Tripolitania can be seen as meaningful reflections not only of the wide variety of activities taking place in the buildings themselves, but also of the varying histories and patterns of land-use in different parts of the region and even the status, wealth, and socio-cultural structures of the people who constructed and lived in them.

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Author:   Nichole Sheldrick
Publisher:   Society for Libyan Studies
Imprint:   Society for Libyan Studies
ISBN:  

9781900971775


ISBN 10:   1900971771
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   10 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"""With patient work, Sheldrick georeferenced many sites that had been investigated in the past without the aid of a GPS, determined with greater precision the contours of the emerging structures, and identified some that had escapes previous surveys."" (trans)-- ""Bryn Mawr Classical Review"""


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Nichole Sheldrick completed a DPhil in Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Since 2015 she has been employed by the School of Archaeology on the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa Project (EAMENA). She has supervised excavations in Tunisia and carried out surveys in Morocco and Egypt.

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