Africa Proconsularis: Volume 3 - Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunisia – Historical Conclusions

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 between the sea at Bou Ficha and the Zaghouan massif, 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. The objective of this encyclopedic work i to reveal the economic mechanisms and social relations between a town and its environs in antiquity. It begins with an exploration of the pioneering work of C.T. Falbe, the Danish consul in Tunisia, who mapped the centuriation around Carthage in the 1830s and left a description of the area around Segermes. Information from later archaeological expeditions is included. The main sections of this volume look into archaeological investigations of the area.
the infrastructure of the Sergemes Valley studies water management and property and production during the Roman era; production and population explores farms and their holdings, families, production and consumption in antiquity, natural resources, administration and immigration; more archaeological fieldwork investigates the late and neo-Punic periods; trade and communication takes a look at the pottery trade and includes a detailed discussion of African red slip ware, which offers a special opportunity to study the regional trade in the province; the Ksar Soudane explores an excavated ruin; and conclusions focuses on the countryside, town-countryside, territorium and the history of the valley.