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(Review)
"The book could be seen as merely a bundle of congress papers, but it has more to offer: it shows an appealing power to think off the beaten track of research and offers a multitude of new insights that can stimulate further research. It is therefore a must-have for those who are engaged in the study of the Roman house."
Von Richard de Kind
In: BABESCH 97 (2022), S. 255-256, doi: 10.2143/BAB.97.0.3290542
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"Even before one has read any of the contents, one will be suitably impressed by this monograph: a hardcover folio-sized volume weighing a hefty three kilograms, almost 600 double-column pages on glossy paper, with 4430 footnotes, and many illustrations and maps. (...) This is an incredibly wide-ranging book, considering it is a monograph with single authorship. But as already stated: though wide-ranging it is not a general history of Numidia or a general guide to the many Roman remains, it has a purpose, namely to say something about cultural change and its driving forces. This is a study that is obviously of importance to anybody interested in the development of Numidia (or all of Northern Africa, or the whole circum-Mediterranean) between Hellenistic and early imperial days. But it is also an impressiv contribution to the study of the mechanisms and modalities of culture contact and culture change."
By Frederick G. Naerebout
In: BABESCH 97 (2022), S. 242-244, doi: 10.2143/BAB.97.0.3290542
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"[...] in showing what is possible when moving beyond those problematic colonial conceptual categories that have shaped interpretations of archaeological finds across Numidia, Ardeleanu offers one of the first truly postcolonial paths forward for NorthAfrican studies. One can only hope that this monumental work will begin to shift the discourse for all who work in the region and serve as a model starting point for subsequent material histories of Rome's African provinces."
Von Matthew M. McCarty
In: American Journal of Archeology, Vol. 127, Nr. 1, 2023
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"[...] this is the most important contribution to Numidian studies for decades, and it will frame all future discussion."
Von Josephine Crawley Quinn
In: Journal of Roman Archaeology, Vol. 115, Nr 1-2, 2025
(Short description)
This volume presents for the first time a systematic study of the urban developments of pre-and early Roman Numidia. The author discusses both recent and older data from surveys and excavations. By means of autopsy, own fieldwork and the presentation of new diachronic city plans, the astonishingly early complexity of Numidia's cityscapes is visualized. Houses, workshops, sanctuaries, funerary habits and economic developments are analyzed according to their continuities, ruptures and innovations. Through the focus on microregional/local evidence and by breaking with the accepted bipolar acculturation models, a fundamental reevaluation of North Africa's so-called dark age and the identity discourses of that period is called for.
(Author portrait)
Stefan Ardeleanu studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Byzantine Archaeology from 2006 to 2010 in Heidelberg, Rome and Aix-en-Provence before completing his PhD in 2015 at the Humboldt University in Berlin on pre- and early Roman Numidia. In 2016/17 he was awarded the 'Reisestipendium' of the German Archaeological Institute. Since 2015 he has worked on a post-doctoral project on Late Antique epitaphs and funerary contexts at the SFB 933 'Materiale Textkulturen' in Heidelberg. His main research focuses are: North Africa (Hellenistic times until Late Antiquity), Roman funerary reliefs, Late Antique burial customs and the perception of antiquity in modern politics and culture.
