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Technological changes in the glazed wares of northern Tunisia in the transition from Fatimid to Zirid rule
A representative selection of glazed ceramics recovered from medieval Islamic contexts excavated in the former Roman port of Utica (North Tunisia)...
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New evidence for food in the Late-Medieval Balkans: archaeobotany of Venetian houses at Butrint in southern Albania
The Roman Forum Excavations (RFE) Project discovered three Venetian houses, dating from the 14th to the 16th century, at the site of the Roman forum...
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The technology of polychrome glazed ceramics in Ifriqiya: new data from the site of Chimtou
Ifriqiya (roughly Tunisia and eastern Algeria) is believed to have played a significant role in the diffusion of ceramic glazed technologies into...
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Geochemical and sedimentological constraints on paleoclimate and paleoenvironment over the past 4000 years in the Thapsus coast, Tunisia
Paleoenvironmental and climate changes along the Thapsus coast over the last 4000 years were recorded in lagoonal sediments. These variations were...
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Centennial-scale flood cyclicity in the second half of Holocene in the southeast Tunisian sediments: paleoenvironmental region gauge between the western and eastern Mediterranean
A detailed mid to late Holocene sedimentary infilling history of salt lakes situated on the northern edge of the Jeffara coastal plain (southeastern...
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Repeated historical earthquakes in Sousse, Monastir and El-Jem (Tunisia)—an archaeoseismological study
Tunisia is known of sparse and moderate earthquakes. However, there are seismically damaged historical buildings in the eastern Sahel region. The...
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Contribution of the geochemical, physico-chemical, mineralogical, and statistical approaches to the reconstructing of the Holocene depositional environments along South-Eastern Tunisia
The characterization of organic matter (OM) composition, physico-chemical, geochemical, and mineralogical studies of sedimentary core can help to...
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Causes and impacts of flash floods: case of Gabes City, Southern Tunisia
Flash floods are among the most severe natural hazards that cause disastrous environmental and human impacts. The city of Gabes (Southern Tunisia) is...
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Effects in North Africa of the 934–940 CE Eldgjá and 1783–1784 CE Laki eruptions (Iceland) revealed by previously unrecognized written sources
In historic times, two catastrophic fissure eruptions originated in the Eastern Volcanic Zone of Iceland, known as Eldgjá eruption (934–940 CE) and...
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Investigation of provenances of Early Islamic lead glazes from northern Central Asia using elemental and lead isotope analyses
A representative collection of Early Islamic glazed ceramics from eleven sites in southern Kazakhstan were characterized by compositional ( n = 95)...
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Agriculture at the Phoenician site of La Fonteta (Alicante, Spain)
The Phoenician settlement of La Fonteta (Alicante, Spain) was founded in the late 8th cent bc at the mouth of the Río Segura. It has provided one of...
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First asserted record of the house mouse in Morocco: application of a multidisciplinary approach to the site of Rirha (5th − 1st c. BC)
The biogeographic and demographic history of the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus , has been closely linked to human history since pre-Neolithic...
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Contribution of GIS in the Environmental Monitoring of a Tunisian Biosphere Reserve (Bou Hedma National Park)
With 17 national parks and 25 nature reserves, Tunisia is a country characterized by great environmental diversity that adopts an environmental...
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Africa Alive Corridors: Transdisciplinary Research based on African Footprints
The idea of Africa Alive Corridors (AAC) evolved from Gondwana geological map** to a comprehensive, more inclusive and dynamic approach to...
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Water level and atmospheric humidity history of Lake Ichkeul (northern Tunisia) during the last 3000 years
Changes in paleoecology and climate of northern Tunisia during the last 3000 years were reconstructed based on the flood history interpreted from a...
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Intensified exploitation of animal products in the Mediterranean Copper Age: isotopic evidence from Scaba ’e Arriu (Sardinia)
In this paper, dietary patterns are reconstructed across two phases represented at the Copper Age of Scaba ’e Arriu (Sardinia, Italy) via isotopic...
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Palaeodietary reconstruction as an alternative approach to poorly preserved early medieval human bone assemblages: the case of Boadilla (Toledo, Spain)
This article presents the results of research on the human population buried at the early medieval cemetery of Boadilla (Toledo, Spain). This was the...
