Diet and Vegetation at Ancient Carthage: The Archaeobotanical Evidence
At present little reminds one of the glorious past of Carthage. Remains of monumental architecture are scarce; most traces of ancient Carthage still preserved are buried beneath the surface. This should be no great surprise if one considers that in ancient times the city was more than once destroyed and that for centuries the ruins were used for quarrying building material.
Philip II, The Greeks, and The King 346-336 B.C.
The aim of this piece is to examine a congeries of diplomatic, political, and legal arrangements and obligations that linked the Greeks, Macedonians, and Persians in various complicated ways during Philip’s final years.
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC
Greece between 1500 and 500 BC is one of the best known examples of the phenomenon of the regeneration of complex society after a collapse. I review 10 core dimensions of this process (urbanism, tax and rent, monuments, elite power, information- recording systems, trade, crafts, military power, scale, and standards of living), and suggest that punctuated equilibrium models accommodate the data better than gradualist interpretations.
The maritime city in the Graeco-Roman perception. Carthage and Alexandria: two emblematic examples
In Ancient History, from the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages, the sea, especially the Mediterranean, was the main instrument of communication between civilizations. But it was also the place of their conflicting interactions.