Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

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Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 14 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • 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 ...

Syllabus
    • 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