David Mattingly

Dados Biográficos

ID3599514
NOMEDavid Mattingly
PRENOMESDavid
SOBRENOMEMattingly
ASSINATURAMATTINGLY D
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Leicester
ORCID0000-0003-1862-8392
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TOTAL DE OBRAS127
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES586
TOTAL COMO AUTOR122
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1981
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H13

  • Imperial power and its limits

    David J Mattingly, David MattinglyCHAPTERMaterialising the Roman Empire2024

  • Between Sahara and Sea

    David J Mattingly, David MattinglyBOOKBetween Sahara and Sea2023

  • Origins and evolution of oasis agriculture in the Sahara

    Open AccessThomas Kaczmarek, Margrieta Van Der Veen et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2023Referências: 10

    Oasis agriculture has been a critical means of sustenance for humans in arid regions in North Africa and West Asia. The date palm ( Phoenix dactylifera L.) holds immense significance as one of the most vital species in these agroecosystems. It was domesticated in the Gulf region over 6000 years ago and later spread to other regions. In the Sahara, the origins of the germplasm and the diffusion history in terms of dating and routes remain largely …

  • Medieval Boom in the North-west Sahara

    Open AccessCorisande Fenwick, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLEJournal of Islamic Archaeology2022Citada por: 2Referências: 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…

  • Mohammed Ibrahim Khalifa al-Mashai 1 January 1957–2 April 2021

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David MattinglyARTICLELibyan Studies2021

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  • Horses and Habitations

    Open AccessYoussef Bokbot, C G Fenwick et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2021Citada por: 1Referências: 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…

  • Garamantian Oasis Settlements in Fazzan

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David Mattingly et al.CHAPTERUrbanisation and State Formation…2020

    In this chapter we present a case study of early oasis development relating to the area of south-west Libya known as Fazzan and the ancient people known as the Garamantes. The Garamantes were first firmly identified with this area by Duveyrier in the mid-nineteenth century. As will be explained in more detail below, the archaeological rediscovery of the Garamantes properly commenced with a pioneering Italian mission in 1933. There were some large…

  • Introduction to the Themes of Sedentarisation, Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David Mattingly et al.CHAPTERUrbanisation and State Formation…2020

    This volume explores a series of linked themes that have wide relevance in world archaeology: sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation. In this opening chapter we review some of the key background to recent debate on these themes and identify some of the Saharan particularities which complicate the application of models developed elsewhere. A dominant discourse on the Sahara throughout history has been the idea of a ‘nomad menace’, coupl…

  • Pre-Islamic Oasis Settlements in the Eastern Sahara

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David Mattingly et al.CHAPTERUrbanisation and State Formation…2020

    This chapter will review the evidence of early oasis development in Western Egypt and Eastern Libya, broadly following the course of the ‘route of the oases’, running west from the Nile to Siwa, then onwards to Awjila and al-Jufra in Libya, where it met the major north-south route from the Mediterranean to Garamantian Fazzan and beyond to Chad. The evidence presented for pre-Islamic oasis development is particularly strong in this part of the Sah…

  • Pre-Islamic Oasis Settlements in the Southern Sahara

    Open AccessMartin Sterry, David J Mattingly et al.CHAPTERUrbanisation and State Formation…2020

    The southern oases of the Sahara can be split into two broad groups. First, there are a series located in and around the Saharan mountain ranges. From east to west these are: Ennedi, Tibesti, Aïr, Tassili n’Ajjer, Ahaggar and Adrar des Ilforas. These massifs receive higher levels of rainfall than other parts of the Sahara, resulting in seasonal rivers that feed permanent bodies of water (small lakes or pools/gueltas) or that support a high water …

  • Pre-Islamic Oasis Settlements in the Northern Sahara

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David Mattingly et al.CHAPTERUrbanisation and State Formation…2020

    This chapter focuses on the oases of the northern Sahara, both those close to and in some cases incorporated within the frontiers of the Roman provinces of Africa. With the exception of some outstanding contributions from our co-author Pol Trousset, there has been little consideration of the potential scale or on the ground reality of oasis development in the Roman frontier region. This is only partly explicable in terms of the lack of detailed a…

  • Technology in the Sahara and Beyond

    Open AccessColin Duckworth, Chloë N Duckworth et al.CHAPTERMobile Technologies in the…2020

    The concluding discussion in this chapter addresses several issues. In the first place it draws together the threads of discussion that run through the individual chapters relating to the nature of technology and technological transfer in the Sahara. It reflects on ‘what is a mobile technology?’, ‘how to study technology in the Sahara’, ‘difficulties and solutions’ and ‘connections’. The second half of the chapter broadens the discussion to consi…

  • State Formation in the Sahara and Beyond

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David Mattingly et al.CHAPTERUrbanisation and State Formation…2020

    In this concluding chapter we focus on debates about state formation and to what extent it is possible to recognise historical instances of this key process among Saharan societies. Here we make the case for a dynamic Saharan history with frequent episodes of urbanisation and state formation in the past. However, we also emphasise the ephemeral nature of these polities, which challenges more evolutionary models of the rise of towns and states. To…

  • Pre-Islamic Oasis Settlements in the North-Western Sahara

    Open AccessMartin Sterry, David J Mattingly et al.CHAPTERUrbanisation and State Formation…2020

    This chapter focuses on the northern oases of the Western Sahara Fig. 6.1). As with the Northern Sahara, the North-western Sahara has also too often been dismissed as wholly nomadic before the development of Arab trading networks. There have been only limited attempts to view the region as a whole, as opposed to restricted studies of the different oasis groups. In this chapter we start with the western end of the Saharan Atlas and move west towar…

  • Royaume-Uni

    Open AccessDavid MattinglyARTICLEMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez2020

    Before the crisis Can you give us an overview of the archaeological research conducted by the UK in Libya since the 2000s? Most British archaeological work has been co-ordinated (and often funded) through the London-based Society for Libyan Studies, which has equivalent status to the British Schools and Institutes overseas, but without having overseas premises. In the early 2000s, the major projects were the Fazzan Project (1997-2002, PI David Ma…

  • Royaume-Uni

    Open AccessG Barker, John Bennet et al.ARTICLEMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez2020

    Networks The UK has some 40 Archaeology departments (the names may vary) in its Universities, most of whom conduct archaeological fieldwork both within the UK and abroad. The major national museums also conduct archaeological fieldwork abroad. Most well-founded Archaeology departments have staff who teach and research across the major periods of the past and also archaeological scientists. There is no equivalent to France’s research-only CNRS or …

  • Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

    Open AccessMartin ca /21 Jh Sterry, Martin Sterry et al.BOOKUrbanisation and State Formation…2020

    The themes of sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation are fundamental ones in the archaeology of many diverse parts of the world but have been little explored in relation to early societies of the Saharan zone. Moreover, the possibility has rarely been considered that the precocious civilisations bordering this vast desert were interconnected by long-range contacts and knowledge networks. The orthodox opinion of many of the key oasis zo…

  • Dying to Be Garamantian

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David Mattingly et al.CHAPTERBurials, Migration and Identity…2019

    The previous chapter introduced the Garamantes, an ancient Saharan people, whose story can be traced archaeologically through the first millennium BC and first millennium AD (see also Figs 1.1and 1.2 for location maps). This chapter presents evidence on the funerary practices of the Garamantian heartlands in the Wadi al-Ajal in the Libyan Fazzan (Central Sahara). The Wadi al-Ajal is a long and thin oasis depression running for c. 150 km from al-A…

  • Burials, Migration and Identity

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David Mattingly et al.CHAPTERBurials, Migration and Identity…2019

    This book is the second volume of four proposed thematic books on aspects of the archaeology and history of what we term the Trans-Saharan zone – broadly conceived of as the vast spaces of Maghrib, Sahara and Sub-Saharan Sahel between the Atlantic in the west, the Mediterranean in the north, the Nile in the east and the equatorial African forests in the south. The territorial expanse of this zone is huge and, given the hostile climate and environ…

  • Concluding Discussion

    Open AccessMartin Sterry, David J Mattingly et al.CHAPTERBurials, Migration and Identity…2019

    At the start of this volume, we outlined three main themes: burial archaeology, migration and identity. In this concluding chapter, we revisit these themes in light of the varied case studies and examples explored in this book. We believe this volume illustrates that there is irrefutable evidence of links and connections that serve to define a Trans-Saharan zone at an early date. Migration and mobility created networks of connectivity and element…

  • The Middle Draa Project (Morocco)

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David Mattingly et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2019Referências: 8

    The Middle Draa Project (2015–18) is a pioneering survey of the archaeology of a c.200 km long valley at the northern edge of the Moroccan Sahara. Combining mapping from satellite imagery, field survey and trial excavation, the project has established a new baseline for the region's archaeological heritage. This paper concentrates on the main results in relation to the Protohistoric (Iron Age) phase, when the first steps towards sedentarisation a…

  • The Society for Libyan Studies archive

    Open AccessVictoria Leitch, David J Mattingly et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2019Referências: 9

    This paper presents an update on the development of the Society for Libyan Studies archive. We begin with a brief reminder about the history of the archive and its current location, moving on to explain the challenging cataloguing process and future plans for digitisation, of both the catalogue and the physical contents of the archive. We also look at the potential of the archive for researchers and outline a few projects that recently benefited …

  • A road less travelled? The Society for Libyan Studies and the landscape archaeology of Libya's early civilisations

    Open AccessDavid J Mattingly, David MattinglyARTICLELibyan Studies2019Citada por: 2Referências: 19

    This contribution explores a key dimension of the work of the Society for Libyan Studies concerning the archaeology of Libya's Protohistoric and early historic periods (broadly first millennium BC and first millennium AD). This primarily concerns the archaeology of rural landscapes (including the desert) and the investigation of the ancient Libyan populations that inhabited them. Taking an autobiographical approach, I review the contributions to …

  • Incidental Archaeologists

    David MattinglyARTICLEHistory Reviews of New Books2019

    "Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(3), pp. 71–72

  • From Above and on the Ground

    Open AccessLouise Rayne, Jennie Bradbury et al.ARTICLEGeosciences2017

    The EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa) project is a collaboration between the Universities of Leicester, Oxford and Durham; it is funded by the Arcadia Fund and the Cultural Protection Fund. This paper explores the development of the EAMENA methodology, and discusses some of the problems of working across such a broad region. We discuss two main case studies: the World Heritage site of Cyrene illustrates how the p…