C G Fenwick

Biographic Data

ID3584775
NAMEC G Fenwick
GIVEN NAMESC G
FAMILY NAMEFenwick
SIGNATUREFENWICK C G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-4645-517X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS129
TOTAL CITATIONS92
AUTHOR COUNT129
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1915
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Tracing glazed ware production in Islamic Sicily: Macroscopic, petrographic, and geochemical evidence

    Open AccessViva Sacco, Patrick Quinn et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2026

    This study presents the first large-scale integrated archaeometric investigation of the fabrics of Islamic-period glazed wares produced and consumed in Sicily between the late 9th and 12th centuries. Through the integration of macroscopic analysis, thin-section petrography, and geochemistry, this study refines the characterisation of Sicilian glazed ware fabrics and strengthens their distinction from ceramics produced in Ifriqiya. A total of 188 …

  • Ceramic production, recipes and technological choices in early medieval Walīla (Volubilis, Morocco)

    Open AccessV Occari, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2026

    In North Africa, archaeometric studies on early medieval ceramics remain limited. Past scholarship has focused largely on glazed wares, with little attention paid to the unglazed wheelmade and handmade wares which dominate archaeological assemblages; as a result, we still understand very poorly the technology and raw materials used to manufacture ceramics in the early Islamic world. This article presents the first comprehensive archaeometric anal…

  • Bone Anvils and New Types of Osseous Tools at Walīla (Volubilis, Morocco): Use of Animal Byproducts in the Industries of a Medieval Town

    Open AccessL Yeomans, Davit Naskidashvili et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    Bone anvils used to sharpen metal sickle blades are frequently documented in the archaeological record of the Roman and medieval Mediterranean and beyond, with new finds reported each year. This article reports anvils from the early medieval town of Walīla (Roman Volubilis) in northern Morocco and presents two other types of bone tools (bone grinding implements and tool handles) not previously described in the scholarly literature. We argue these…

  • Gaming in the Maghreb al-Aqsa: New evidence from Idrisid Walīla (Volubilis)

    Open AccessTim Penn, Corisande Fenwick et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2026

    Boardgames appear frequently in early medieval Arabic literature, reflecting their embeddedness in everyday life and social discourse. Despite abundant textual and material evidence, the archaeology of games in Islamic contexts remains understudied, partly due to the scarcity of reliably-dated gameboards. This article addresses this gap by presenting a previously unpublished game board from the medieval hammam of Walīla (Roman Volubilis), Morocco…

  • Late antique African Painted Wares (APW): Tracing local production in North Africa

    Open AccessHeike Möller, Veronica Occari et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2025References: 43

    The production and circulation of common wares during the late antique period in North Africa has been largely overlooked by past scholarship, despite their potential to shed light on late antique production, workshop organisation and regional ceramic economies. This paper provides the first detailed study of a distinctive type of late antique, wheelmade common ware, the so-called African ‘painted ware’ (APW). It first presents a critical overvie…

  • Kairouan and the medieval ceramic industry in Tunisia: New data from compositional analysis of glazed and unglazed wares from the sites of Bulla Regia and Chimtou

    Open AccessVeronica Occari, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2025References: 6

  • The impact of a decade of digital transformation on employment, wages, and inequality in the EU: A "Conveyor Belt" Hypothesis

    Open AccessMatteo Guido Richiardi, Leonie Westhoff et al.ARTICLESocio-Economic Review2025References: 36

    We study the effects of digital transformation in the European Union on individual employment outcomes, wage growth, and income inequality, during the decade 2010-9. Our results allow us to formulate a 'conveyor-belt' hypothesis suggesting that employment confers a competitive advantage in navigating the digital transition due to the accumulation of pertinent skills in the workplace. Because digital skills are acquired with the changing demands o…

  • The technology of polychrome glazed ceramics in Ifriqiya: New data from the site of Chimtou

    Open AccessVeronica Occari, H Möller et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2024

    Ifriqiya (roughly Tunisia and eastern Algeria) is believed to have played a significant role in the diffusion of ceramic glazed technologies into other regions of the Western Mediterranean. However, due to limited analysis on North African glazed ceramics, its role in technology transfer remains poorly understood. This paper uses SEM–EDS and petrographic analyses to understand the technology employed in the production of Tunisian ceramics through…

  • Coupling morphometric analysis and soil erosion modeling for the characterization of the geomorphological setting in the surrounding of the archaeological site of Chimtou (Central Medjerda Valley, Tun…

    Open AccessJulia Pagels, Moheddine Chaouali et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2024

    This study focuses on the characterization of the geomorphological setting in the hinterland of the archaeological sites of Chimtou and Bordj Hellal located in the central Medjerda Valley, North Tunisia. Our approach integrates the algorithm Geomorphons for semi-automatic landform classification with the soil erosion model Unit Stream Power-based Erosion Deposition (USPED), providing information on the intensity and regional distribution of erosi…

  • Conquest to Conversion: The Archaeology of Religious Transformation in Early Medieval North Africa

    Open AccessCorisande Fenwick, C G FenwickARTICLEJournal of Islamic Archaeology2023

    North Africa (west of Egypt) is a compelling locale to explore how and when a Muslim minority became the Muslim majority. Previous scholarly approaches to medieval religious change rely almost exclusively on much later written sources, and as a result, little is understood about the religious landscape in which believers operated in. This article examines critically the material evidence for mosque construction and church abandonment and proposes…

  • Isotopic evidence for human mobility in late antique Bulla Regia (Tunisia)

    Open AccessE Nikita, M M Alexander et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023References: 12

    This paper represents the first isotopic study on late antique human mobility in North Africa, using the urban site of Bulla Regia in Tunisia as a case study. We also present the first values for bioavailable 87 Sr/ 86 Sr in northern Tunisia, analysing 63 plant and snail samples, as well as a simple method for the pre-processing of plants in the field to facilitate their export. Bulla Regia was a prominent Roman and late antique town situated on …

  • Bulla Regia II: Excavations in the Christian cemetery

    Open AccessCorisande Fenwick, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2023Cited by: 1

    This paper reports the preliminary results from three seasons of excavations in the Christian cemetery by the Tunisian-British Bulla Regia Archaeological Project. In 2017–2019, excavations in, and around, the Late Antique church in the western cemetery uncovered a complex funerary landscape with a variety of different tomb types, including mosaic caisson tombs, simple masonry tombs, amphora tombs, and earthen graves and multiple funerary mensae .…

  • Re-thinking the 'Green Revolution' in the Mediterranean world

    Open AccessHelena Kirchner, Guillermo García-Contreras et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2023Cited by: 1References: 42

    From the seventh century AD, successive Islamic polities were established around the Mediterranean. Historians have linked these caliphates with the so-called 'Islamic Green Revolution'-the introduction of new crops and agricultural practices that transformed the economies of regions under Muslim rule. Increasingly, archaeological studies have problematised this largely text-based model of agrarian innovation, yet much of this research remains re…

  • Urban life in early Islamic Morocco: New light from the excavations at Walīla (Roman Volubilis)

    Open AccessElizabeth Fentre, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLEArchaeology International2022

    This article presents a research update from the INSAP-UCL excavations at the UNESCO site of medieval Walīla (Roman Volubilis), Morocco. Though the site is best known as the Roman city of Volubilis, in the Middle Ages, and by then called Walīla, it took on a new importance as a Berber centre, the probable locale of an Umayyad or Abbasid garrison and the capital of Idrīs I, the founder of one of the earliest Islamic states in Morocco. It is the on…

  • Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara: Evolving Oasis Landscapes in the Wadi Draa, Morocco (c.700–1500 AD)

    Open AccessCorisande Fenwick, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Islamic Archaeology2022Cited by: 2References: 8

    Modern scholarship on the medieval Sahara has focused on a handful of famous entrepôt sites that have their origins in the 8th century or later, and as a result we still understand very poorly the nature and extent of Saharan oasis settlement and agriculture in the golden age of Saharan trade. This article presents the first securely dated chronology for oasis development in the north-west Sahara based on three seasons of archaeological survey an…

  • Urban transformation in the Central Medjerda Valley (north-west Tunisia) in late antiquity and the middle ages: A regional approach

    Open AccessCorisande Fenwick, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2022Cited by: 2References: 28

    Recent scholarship on North African cities has done much to dispel earlier assumptions about late antique collapse and demonstrate significant continuity into the Byzantine and medieval periods. Yet urban changes did not affect North Africa evenly. Far less is known about the differing regional trajectories that shaped urban transformation and the extent to which pre-Roman and Roman micro-regions continued to share meaningful characteristics in s…

  • Authority beyond Tribe and State in the “Middle Maghrib”

    C G Fenwick, Andy MerrillsARTICLEAl-Masāq2021

    The history of ancient and medieval North Africa has all too often been written as the history of its conquerors. Accounts of Roman, Vandal, Byzantine or Islamic North Africa typically focus on the

  • Raw materials and technology of Medieval Glass from Venice: The Basilica of SS. Maria e Donato in Murano

    Open AccessVeronica Occari, Ian C Freestone et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Cited by: 2References: 18

  • Horses and Habitations: Iron Age Rock Art from Fortified Hilltop Settlements in the Wadi Draa, Morocco

    Open AccessYoussef Bokbot, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2021Cited by: 1References: 12

    The article presents important results from the Middle Draa Project ( MDP ) in southern Morocco related to two mid-1st millennium CE hilltop settlements (hillforts) that were associated with significant rock art assemblages. The combination of detailed survey and radiocarbon dating of these remarkable sites provides a unique window on the Saharan world in which the pecked engravings, predominantly of horses, were produced. As the horse imagery fe…

  • Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective

    Corisande Fenwick, C G Fenwick et al.BOOKEarly Islamic North Africa2020

    This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…

  • An integrated methodology for the documentation and protection of cultural heritage in the Mena region: A case study from Libya and Tunisia

    Open AccessAnna Leone, W Wootton et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2020Cited by: 2References: 31

    This paper presents the methodology and overall outcomes from the Training in Action project (TinA), funded by the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund between 2017 and 2019, which has built capacity among 72 employees of the Department of Antiquities of Libya (DoA) and the Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie (INP). It highlights the integrated and comprehensive nature of the training based on an innovative approach designed to incre…

  • Bulla Regia I: A new church and Christian cemetery

    Open AccessMoheddine Chaouali, Corisande Fenwick et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2018Cited by: 4References: 4

    This paper reports the preliminary results from two short seasons of fieldwork that the Tunisian–British Bulla Regia Archaeological Report was able to undertake in September 2016 and 2017. In 2016, the work focused on a geophysical survey of the western cemetery and revealed a complex landscape of funerary enclosures and mausolea outside the protected boundaries of the site, likely to be of Roman date. In 2017, photogrammetric techniques were use…

  • Long-term History in a Moroccan Oasis Zone: The Middle Draa Project 2015

    David Mattingly, Youssef Bokbot et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2017Cited by: 10References: 10

    This article describes the research questions and presents the initial ams dates of the Middle Draa Project (southern Morocco), a collaborative field survey project between the University of Leicester and the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine ( insap ) of Morocco. Starting from a very low baseline of past archaeological research in this pre-desert valley, the overall objective of the project is to establish the exte…

  • Azdud (Ashdod-Yam): An Early Islamic Fortress on the Mediterranean Coast

    Corisande Fenwick, C G FenwickARTICLEMedieval Archaeology2016

    This book purports to present the results of excavations by the Israel Antiquity Authority in 1997-9 at the medieval site Mhz Azdd, now known as Ashdod-Yam or Minat al-Qal'a, in Israel.Once thought to date to the 10th -11th centuries, these excavations revealed that this small coastal fort (35 x 55m) was in fact built in the late 7th century over the razed insulae of the Byzantine town Azotus Paralious as part of a broader system of early Umayyad…

  • Tingis

    Open AccessCorisande Fenwick, C G FenwickCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Tingis (mod. Tangier) was a city on the northern coast of Morocco. Probably a Carthaginian foundation, it came under Roman control in 81 BCE and later became provincial capital of Mauretania Tingitana.