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Rus Africum - Thugga Survey
Rus Africum - Thugga Survey
Introduction
RusAfricum.org has been created
to give open access to the data collected during the archaeological
surveys carried on in Tunisia for many years by the University of Trento
(Italy) and the Institut National du Patrimoine of Tunisia, under the joint direction of Mustapha Khanoussi, Samir Aounallah (from 2012) and Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers.
The research project:
The
survey project has been carried out in the Medjerda valley (in the
Tunisian High Tell), covering an area of about 660 sq. Km, including the
33th map of the "Atlas Archéologique de la Tunisie", which contains also the city of Thugga (Dougga).
Fieldwork was carried on by an interdisciplinary Tunisian-Italian
research group of 20 members, in different periods of time. The first
was in the years between 1994 and 2000, the second in 2007-2008 and a
third in the years 2012-2014. An area of about 69 sq. km, oriented
east-west, was investigated more thoroughly, while the remaining surface
was investigated extensively.
This survey proved that the area was
intensely exploited during the Roman period and in late antiquity, as
proved by the construction of a large number of farms equipped with oil
and wine presses and grain mills.
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