Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

From Rome to Pompeii and Ephesus the excavation of Roman remains is well known, but what of Roman remains in Africa? This free course, Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga, looks at the Roman city of Thugga and examines the influence that Roman architecture and art had on Africa and its people.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Thugga
• 1 Thugga
• 2 Investigating Roman and indigenous cultural elements in the archaeology of Africa
• 2 Investigating Roman and indigenous cultural elements in the archaeology of Africa
• 2.1 Looking in detail at Thugga
• 2.2 Modelling cultural interaction
• 2.2.1 Model 1: African + Roman = Roman dominance and end of African traits (assimilation)
• 2.2.2 Model 2: African + Roman= African traits continue to dominate and Roman traits fail to become established (rejection)
• 2.2.3 Model 3: African + Roman = African persistence and no evidence of Roman traits dominating (separation)
• 2.2.4 Model 4: African + Roman = Afro-Roman cultural mixing (fusion)
• 2.3 The building of Thugga
• 2.4 African Red Slip ware
• 2.5 African mosaics: things Roman and things African?
• 2.6 Houses at Carthage, Bulla Regia and Thugga
• 2.7 Reconsideration of the models and their suitability
• 2.7.1 The building of Thugga
• 2.7.2 African Red Slip ware
• 2.7.3 Mosaics
• 2.7.4 Houses
• Conclusion
• Keep on learning
• References
• Acknowledgements