David Mattingly
British archaeologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David John Mattingly, FBA is an archaeologist and historian of the Roman world. He is currently Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Leicester. Biography Mattingly's grandfather, Harold Mattingly, was Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, and his father, Harold B. Mattingly, was Professor of Ancient History at Leeds University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in history at the University of Manchester, and later a Doctor of Philosophy from the same university, under the supervision of Barri Jones. His doctoral thesis was titled "Tripolitania: A comparative study of a Roman frontier province", and was submitted in 1984. He was then a British Academy Post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, in Oxford until 1989. He was then Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in the United States. At Leicester University he was first Lecturer, then Reader , and most recently Professor .
David Mattingly 's Published Works
Published Works
- Oil for export? A comparison of Libyan, Spanish and Tunisian olive oil production in the Roman empire (1988) (194)
- Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire (2010) (188)
- Being Roman: expressing identity in a provincial setting (2004) (184)
- An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409 (2006) (183)
- An Atlas of Roman Britain (1992) (161)
- Dialogues in Roman Imperialism: Power, Discourse, and Discrepant Experience in the Roman Empire (1997) (145)
- Economies beyond agriculture in the classical world (2001) (120)
- Roman Africa: An Archaeological Review (1995) (110)
- Energetics of Reproduction in Large‐Littered Cotton Rats (Sigmodon Hispidus) (1982) (105)
- The Olive Boom. Oil Surpluses, Wealth and Power in Roman Tripolitania (1988) (84)
- Life, death, and entertainment in the Roman Empire (2010) (79)
- The Kasserine Archaeological Survey. 1987 [Institut national d'archéologie et d'art de Tunisie- University of Virginia, USA ] (1990) (73)
- From above and on the ground : geospatial methods for recording endangered archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa. (2017) (60)
- The first towns in the central Sahara (2013) (60)
- Roman vineyards in Britain: stratigraphic and palynological data from Wollaston in the Nene Valley, England (2001) (56)
- Desert Migrations: people, environment and culture in the Libyan Sahara (2007) (54)
- The Archaeology of Fazzan (2003) (53)
- Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: the Second Season of Geoarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (1997) (1998) (52)
- New perspectives on the agricultural development of gebel and pre-desert in Roman Tripolitania. (1986) (50)
- Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Introducing the EAMENA Project (2016) (50)
- DMP V: Investigations in 2009 of Cemeteries and Related Sites on the West Side of the Taqallit Promontory (2009) (49)
- King Solomon's miners--starvation and bioaccumulation? An environmental archaeological investigation in Southern Jordan. (1999) (49)
- Town Houses at Ptolemais, Cyrenaica: A Summary Report of Survey and Excavation Work in 1971, 1978–1979 (1986) (47)
- Energy Allocation during Lactation in Cotton Rats (Sigmodon hispidus) on a Restricted Diet (1985) (47)
- Imperialism, Power, and Identity (2013) (46)
- Libyans and the 'limes' : culture and society in Roman Tripolitania (1987) (45)
- The Wadi Faynan Project, Southern Jordan: a Preliminary Report on Geomorphology and Landscape Archaeology (1997) (45)
- DMP XIII: Reconnaissance Survey of Archaeological Sites in the Murzuq Area (2011) (44)
- Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond (2017) (43)
- Boron isotopic composition as a provenance indicator for the flux raw material in Roman natron glass (2014) (42)
- Water table decline, springline desiccation and the early development of irrigated agriculture in the Wādi al-Ajāl, Libyan Fazzān (2004) (41)
- The Archaeology of Fazzan. Volume 1, Synthesis. (2003) (40)
- Farmers and Frontiers. Exploiting and Defending the Countryside of Roman Tripolitania (1989) (40)
- Sahara: Barrier or corridor? Nonmetric cranial traits and biological affinities of North African late Holocene populations. (2012) (38)
- From one colonialism to another : imperialism and the Maghreb (1996) (37)
- The Laguatan: A Libyan Tribal Confederation in the Late Roman Empire (1983) (37)
- PAINTINGS, PRESSES AND PERFUME PRODUCTION AT POMPEII (1990) (34)
- The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey 1980 (1981) (34)
- Activity patterns in the Sahara Desert: an interpretation based on cross-sectional geometric properties. (2011) (34)
- DMP X: Survey and Landscape Conservation Issues around the Tāqallit headland (2010) (34)
- DMP II: 2008 fieldwork on burials and identity in the Wadi al-Ajal (2000) (34)
- The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey VI: Investigations of a Romano-Libyan farm, Part I (1984) (33)
- Nador and fortified farms in North Africa (1992) (32)
- Geographical Information Systems and Landscape Archaeology (2000) (31)
- Technical specifications for some North African olive presses of roman date (1993) (31)
- The origins and development of Zuwīla, Libyan Sahara: an archaeological and historical overview of an ancient oasis town and caravan centre (2015) (29)
- Vulgar and weak ‘Romanization’, or time for a paradigm shift? (2002) (29)
- Archaeology and Desertification in the Wadi Faynan: the Fourth (1999) Season of the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey (2000) (27)
- The Feeding of Imperial Rome:: The Mechanics of the Food Supply System (2000) (27)
- DMP XII: Excavations and Survey of the so-called Garamantian Royal Cemetery (GSC030–031) (2011) (26)
- Desert Migrations Project XVII: Further AMS Dates for Historic Settlements from Fazzan, South-West Libya (2013) (26)
- WHO SHAPED AFRICA?: THE ORIGINS OF URBANISM AND AGRICULTURE IN MAGHREB AND SAHARA (2016) (26)
- Desert Migrations Project XVI: Radiocarbon Dates from the Murzuq Region, Southern Libya (2012) (26)
- The Libyan Desert: Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage (2006) (26)
- From the Mediterranean to the Libyan Sahara. Chemical analyses of Garamantian glass (2016) (25)
- DMP IX: Summary Report on the Fourth Season of Excavations of the Burials and Identity team (2010) (25)
- Non-destructive μXRF analysis of glass and metal objects from sites in the Libyan pre-desert and Fazzan (2015) (24)
- In the footsteps of Pliny: tracing the sources of Garamantian carnelian from Fazzan, south-west Libya (2014) (24)
- A New Clausura in Western Tripolitania: Wadi Skiffa South (1986) (24)
- End of Line? Glass Bangles, Technology, Recycling, and Trade in Islamic North Africa (2016) (24)
- The Garamantes and the Origins of Saharan Trade: State of the Field and Future Agendas (2017) (23)
- The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey IV: The 1981 Season (1983) (22)
- Romano-Libyan dryland animal husbandry and landscape: Pollen and palynofacies analyses of coprolites from a farm in the Wadi el-Amud, Tripolitania (2001) (22)
- MEGALITHIC MADNESS AND MEASUREMENT. OR HOW MANY OLIVES COULD AN OLIVE PRESS PRESS (1988) (22)
- Pour sauver Carthage : exploration et conservation de la cité punique, romaine et byzantine (1995) (22)
- Field Survey (2020) (22)
- First fruit? The olive in the Roman world (2013) (21)
- Detecting Change at Archaeological Sites in North Africa Using Open-Source Satellite Imagery (2020) (21)
- Burials, Migration and Identity (2019) (20)
- ULVS XIII: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Farming in the Wadi Mansur, Tripolitania (1986) (20)
- DMP III: Pleistocene and Holocene palaeonvironments and prehistoric occupation of Fazzan, Libyan Sahara (2008) (20)
- Provenance of clay used in Garamantian ceramics from Jarma, Fazzan region (south-west Libya): A combined geochemical and microfossil analysis (2016) (20)
- The Fezzan Project 1998: preliminary report on the second season of work (1998) (20)
- Long-term History in a Moroccan Oasis Zone: The Middle Draa Project 2015 (2017) (20)
- The Imperial Economy (2007) (19)
- Dying to Be Garamantian (2019) (19)
- Early Saharan trade : the inorganic evidence (2017) (18)
- Visible and Invisible Commodities of Trade:: The Significance of Organic Materials in Saharan Trade (2017) (17)
- Pre-Islamic Oasis Settlements in the Eastern Sahara (2020) (17)
- A landscape of imperial power: Roman and Byzantine Phaino. (2008) (16)
- WHOSE ROMAN AFRICA? (2000) (16)
- Human Mobility and Identity (2019) (15)
- Garamantian Oasis Settlements in Fazzan (2020) (15)
- The Making of early states: The Iron Age and Nabatean periods (2008) (15)
- Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond (2020) (15)
- Town and Country in Roman Tripolitania: Papers in Honour of Olwen Hackett (1987) (15)
- Introduction to the Themes of Sedentarisation, Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond (2020) (15)
- Discussion: Sedentarisation and Urbanisation in the Sahara (2020) (15)
- State Formation in the Sahara and Beyond (2020) (14)
- Maximum figures and maximizing strategies of oil production? further thoughts on the processing capacity of roman olive presses (1993) (14)
- The Archaeology of Fazzan. Volume 2, Site gazetteer, pottery and other survey finds (2007) (14)
- Ancient lakes of the Sahara (2006) (13)
- Vandal, Byzantine and Arab rural landscapes in North Africa. (2004) (13)
- The Fezzan Project 1997: methodologies and results of the first season (1997) (13)
- Africa-Proconsularis: Regional studies in the Segermes valley of northern Tunisia. (1997) (13)
- Fortified farms and defended villages of Late Roman and Late Antique Africa (2013) (12)
- The Fezzan Project 2001: Preliminary report on the fifth season of work (2001) (12)
- Three-dimensional cranial shape analyses and gene flow in North Africa during the Middle to Late Holocene (2012) (12)
- Methodological considerations in the statistical analysis of degenerative joint and disc disease. (2013) (12)
- Beyond belief? Drawing a line beneath the consumer city (2005) (11)
- A Roman port city in Tunisia (1992) (11)
- Leptiminus (Lamta): Report no. 2, The East Baths, Cemeteries, Kilns, Venus Mosaic, Site Museum and Other Studies (2001) (10)
- Radiocarbon dates from Fazzan, southern Libya (2002) (9)
- DMP VI: Preliminary results from 2009 fieldwork on the human prehistory of the Libyan Sahara (2009) (9)
- 6. The African Way of Death: Burial Rituals beyond the Roman Empire (2007) (9)
- The Fezzan Project 1999: preliminary report on the third season of work (1999) (9)
- The Fezzan Project 2000: Preliminary report on the fourth season of work (2000) (9)
- Understanding patient risk and its impact on chronic and non-chronic member trends. (2008) (8)
- Evidence of Trephinations among the Garamantes, a Late Holocene Saharan Population (2012) (8)
- DMP XI: Preliminary results from 2010 fieldwork on the human prehistory in the Libyan Sahara (2010) (8)
- Twelve thousand years of human adaptation in Fezzan (Libyan Sahara) (2003) (8)
- Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa (2019) (7)
- Mapping the Roman world : the contribution of field survey data. (2004) (7)
- Lakes of the Edeyen Ubari and the Wadi al-Hayat (2006) (7)
- The Islamic and Ottoman periods (2008) (7)
- The Roman Road-Station at Thenadassa (Ain Wif) (1982) (6)
- From present to past through landscape (2009) (6)
- Archaeology and Desertification: the landscapes of the Wadi Faynan (2008) (6)
- General Editors’ Introduction:: The POPULUS Project (2016) (5)
- Preliminary report on fieldwork at Euesperides (Benghazi) in October 1994 (1995) (5)
- The Garamantes of Fezzan Revisited: publishing the C.M. Daniels archive (1999) (5)
- The Diffusion of Irrigation Technologies in the Sahara in Antiquity (2020) (5)
- Survey and excavations at Old Jarma (Ancient Garama) (2013) (5)
- IRT 895 and 896: Two inscriptions from Gheriat el-Garbia (1985) (5)
- IMPACTS BEYOND EMPIRE: ROME AND THE GARAMANTES OF THE SAHARA (2002) (4)
- DMP XIV: Prehistoric sites in the Wadi Barjuj, Fazzan, Libyan Sahara (2011) (4)
- The Middle Draa Project (Morocco): results from the survey and trial excavations 2015–18 (2019) (4)
- Training, Partnerships, and New Methodologies for Protecting Libya’s Cultural Heritage (2018) (4)
- Libyan Antiquities at Risk: protecting portable cultural heritage (2017) (4)
- Comparative advantages. Roman slavery and imperialism (2008) (3)
- Pre-Islamic Oasis Settlements in the Northern Sahara (2020) (3)
- Peopling Ancient Landscapes: Potential and Problems (2009) (3)
- A new study of olive oil (and wine?) production in northern Tunisia (2009) (3)
- A road less travelled? The Society for Libyan Studies and the landscape archaeology of Libya's early civilisations (2019) (3)
- 6. Landscapes of Imperialism. Africa: A Landscape of Opportunity? (2013) (3)
- The constructor of Gasr Duib, Numisius Maximus, Trib.(unus cohortis I Syrorum sagittariorum) (1991) (3)
- Leptis Magna. la Splendeur et L'Oubli. By Laronde André and Degeorge Gérard. Herman, Paris. 2007. ISBN 978-2-7056-6492-3, pp. 20, numerous colour plates. Price: €75.00. (2007) (2)
- Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain (2020) (2)
- The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 4 (2013) (2)
- Historical Map and Guide of Roman Britain (2002) (2)
- Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco (2021) (2)
- Archaeology and desertification in the Wadi Feynan (2000) (2)
- Fourth-Century Manning of the ‘Fossatum Africae’ (1980) (2)
- Dental indicators of adaptation in the Sahara Desert during the Late Holocene. (2014) (2)
- W. V. Harris (ed.), The Inscribed Economy. Production and Distribution in the Roman Empire in the Light of Instrumentum Domesticum (Journal of Roman Archaeology supp. ser. VI). Ann Arbor: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1993. Pp. 192, 25 figs. £25.00. (1994) (2)
- David J. Smith (2017) (2)
- Pre-Islamic Oasis Settlements in the North-Western Sahara (2020) (2)
- ULVS XXVII: Mapping and Spatial Analysis of the Libyan Valleys Data using GIS (1995) (1)
- The Society for Libyan Studies archive: history, organisation, recent and future developments (2019) (1)
- A Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara: Evolving Oasis Landscapes in the Wadi Draa, Morocco (c.700–1500 AD) (2022) (1)
- Navio. The Fort and Vicus at Brough-on-Noe . Edited by Martin J. Dearne. BAR British Series 234. Tempus Reparatum, Oxford, 1993. Pp. xi + 179, ills 68. Price: £32.00. ISBN 0 86054 759 0. (1995) (1)
- Dr John Alfred Lloyd (1999) (1)
- Field survey in the Libyan Valleys (1989) (1)
- Approaches to the archaeology and environment of the Sahara: The Fazzan project, 1997–2002 (briefing) (2005) (1)
- The east baths, cemeteries, kilns, Venus mosaic, site museum, and other studies (2001) (1)
- 9. Family Values: Art and Power at Ghirza in the Libyan Pre-desert (2013) (1)
- The walls of medieval Zuwila (2015) (1)
- The landscape of imperialism (1994) (1)
- Pre-desert Tripolitania: a new archaeological and archaeometrical examination of Red Slip Ware from the Ghirza excavations and the Libyan Valleys Survey (2018) (1)
- A Comparison of the Practices Used to Track ENERGY STAR ® Market Share (2006) (1)
- 7. Metals and Metalla: A Roman Copper-Mining Landscape in the Wadi Faynan, Jordan (2013) (1)
- Etudes sur L'Afrique Antique: Scripta Varia. By Gsell S.. Lille, PUL, 1981. (1984) (1)
- Calculating Plough-Zone Demographics (2011) (1)
- Deconstructing the Discourses of Roman Imperialism (2011) (1)
- Concluding Discussion (2019) (1)
- Understanding Roman landscapes (1993) (1)
- P. D. A. Garnsey, Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World. Responses to Risk and Crisis. Cambridge, etc.: University Press, 1988. Pp. xix + 303, 3 maps, 9 tables and graphs. ISBN 0-521-35198-7. (1989) (0)
- Book Review of Roman Diasporas: Archaeological Approaches to Mobility and Diversity in the Roman Empire, edited by Hella Eckardt (2012) (0)
- 8. Identity and Discrepancy (2013) (0)
- La Memoria Dell'arte. Le Pitture Rupestri Dell'Acacus Tra Passato E Futuro. Edited by Lernia Savino di and Zampetti Daniela. All'Insegna del Giglio, Firenze. 2008. ISBN 978-88-7814-377-7, pp. 379, 359 figures. Price: € 48.00. (2009) (0)
- The Libyan Valleys Project Seminar (1981) (0)
- Publication Notice: the Maghreb Review , vol. 23, nos 1-4 (1998). (2000) (0)
- The “old lady's” Companion? Writing Roman Britain in the 21st century (2005) (0)
- The Wadi Faynan Proiect , Southern jordan : a Prelirninary Report on Geornorphology and Landscape (2008) (0)
- Dietz S., Sebai L. Ladjimi and Hassen H. Ben (eds), Africa Proconsularis: Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunisia . Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1995. 2 vols, pp. 799, numerous figs, 11 fold-out plans, ISBN 87-7288-740-0. £60.00/US$80.00. (1997) (0)
- amphorae and amphora stamps, Roman (2016) (0)
- Making money in classical Athens T. E. RIHLL (2002) (0)
- The Berbers. By Brett Michael and Fentress Elizabeth. Pp. xviii and 350, 38 plates, 41 figures. The Peoples of Africa series, Blackwell, Oxford, 1996. (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews October 2006 (2006) (0)
- O. Brogan and D. J. Smith, Ghirza. A Libyan Settlement in the Roman Period (Libyan Antiquities Series I). Tripoli: Dept of Antiquities, 1984 [1985]. Pp. 327, 115 figs, 172 pls. (1989) (0)
- Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage of the Libyan Desert: report on a conference held in Libya 14-21 December 2002 (2003) (0)
- The Scritti Africani of Professor Antonino Di Vita (2016) (0)
- Histoire et Archeologie De L'Afrique Du Nord. Ille Colloque International (Montpellier 1985) . Editions Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Paris, 1986. 422 pages, 72 figures. Price: 280F. (1988) (0)
- La Numidie. Rome et le Maghreb . By A. Berthier. 224 pages, 12 figures, 9 plates. Picard, Paris, 1981. (1983) (0)
- Hail Caesarea! (1987) (0)
- 1. From Imperium to Imperialism: Writing the Roman Empire (2013) (0)
- The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 3 (2007) (0)
- P. Garnsey, Food and Society in Classical Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 175, 9 figs, ISBN 0-5216-4182-9 (bound); 0-5216-4588-3 (paper). £35.00 (bound); £12.95 (paper). (2000) (0)
- LibGuides: Clinch River Regional Library: 2018 SRP: Libraries Rock (2017) (0)
- Zuwila and Fazzan in the Seventh to Tenth Centuries: The Emergence of a New Trading Center (2017) (0)
- Afterword: Empire Experienced (2013) (0)
- Libya Antiqua . New series. Volumes VI (2011–12) [2016]; VII (2013–14) [2016]; VIII (2015) [2016]; IX (2016) [2016]. Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa/Rome. ISSN 0459-2980. (2017) (0)
- LibGuides: Clinch River Regional Library: Trustee and Staff links (2017) (0)
- LibGuides: Clinch River Regional Library: Programming (2017) (0)
- Geography and climate (2003) (0)
- The Archaeology of Fazzan, Vol. 2 (2007) (0)
- Mohammed Ibrahim Khalifa al-Mashai 1 January 1957–2 April 2021 (2021) (0)
- Foreword by R. Bruce Hitchner (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Clinch River Regional Library: ILL, LABM, Ordering, Cataloging, Archives (2017) (0)
- Rome in Africa. By Raven Susan, xxx and 268 pages, 15 figs., 87 plates. Second Edition, Longman, London and New York, 1984. Price £14.95 hardback. (1985) (0)
- Tracing History in the Saharan Desert Landscapes (2015) (0)
- Fenland Survey. An Essay in Landscape and Persistence . By D. Hall and J. Coles. English Heritage, London, 1994. Pp. xii + 170, figs 101. Price: £35.00. ISBN 1 85074 477 7. (1997) (0)
- Identity and ‘Romanisation’ (2010) (0)
- The iron age to Nabataean landscape. (2008) (0)
- Preface to the Paperback Edition (2013) (0)
- I. Sjöström, Tripolitania in Transition: Late Roman to Early Islamic Settlement. Aldershot: Avebury, 1993. Pp. X + 340, 48 illus. ISBN 1-85628-707-6. £45.00. (1994) (0)
- David J. Smith. 22 December 1923 - 24 November 2016 (2017) (0)
- Comment II.: The unmaking of Iron Age identities: art after the Roman conquest (2008) (0)
- Debating Mobile Technologies (2020) (0)
- Mapping Ancient Libya (1994) (0)
- Preface: My Roman Empire (2013) (0)
- Into Africa: The biography of Roman vessel glass in the Sahara Desert (2018) (0)
- Technology in the Sahara and Beyond (2020) (0)
- Provincial and other identities in Roman Africa (2014) (0)
- Éric Rebillard, Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity: North Africa, 200–450 CE . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. Pp. x, 134. $49.95. ISBN: 9780801451423. (2014) (0)
- farm buildings, Roman (2016) (0)
- L'Afrique Romaine/Roman Africa: Les Conferences Vanier/The Vanier Lectures 1980 . Edited by C. M. Wells. University of Ottowa, 1982. 105 pages. (1985) (0)
- Susan E. Alcock, John F. Cherry, Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004. Pp. 251; figs. 114, tables 35. ISBN 1-84217-096-1. £45.00. (2012) (0)
- 4. Power, Sex, and Empire (2013) (0)
- Pre-Islamic Oasis Settlements in the Southern Sahara (2020) (0)
- Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara (2022) (0)
- 5. Ruling Regions, Exploiting Resources (2013) (0)
- 3. Regime Change, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Imperialism Ancient and Modern (2013) (0)
- Professor Geraint Dyfed Barri Jones (1999) (0)
- Roman North Africa. By Manton E. Lennox. 144 pages, 72 illustrations, 25 colour plates. Seaby, London, 1988. Price: £17.50 hardback. (1988) (0)
- Between Sahara and Sea (2023) (0)
- In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Stephen L. Dyson (2007) (0)
- M. S. Spurr, Arable Cultivation in Roman Italy c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 100 (Journal of Roman Studies Monograph III). London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1986. Pp. xiv + 159, 8 pls, 5 figs. ISBN 0-907764-06-1. £12.50. (1991) (0)
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