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ULVS XX: First Report on the Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

J.N. Dore
J.N. Dore*
Affiliation:
Newcastle upon Tyne
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This report deals only with the fine pottery since it is this material which provides, in the first instance, the dating for the sites in the survey area. A full report on all the pottery is in preparation.

The fifth season of the UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey was completed at the end of October 1989. The work of the first three seasons resulted in the development of a model for the socio-economic hierarchy in the area of the Valleys. Two particular types of site (the Farms known as Opus Africanum farms and the Gsur) were considered to be the sites which dominated this hierarchy during different periods of the history of the area. On the basis of the pottery evidence, we established that the Opus Africanum farms were associated with the early period and the Gsur with the later period; there was some indication of decline from around the end of the fourth century.

The aim of the two most recent seasons was to examine particular examples of these two types of site. In 1984 an Opus Africanum farm was examined situated in Wadi el Amud; its occupation began in the second half of the first century AD. Most recently, in 1989, two areas were examined, and these were chosen for research because of the possibility that they were only occupied in the late period: firstly, Wadi Buzra which flows into Wadi Mimoun and secondly Wadi Umm el Kharab which flows into Wadi Nafad.

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Research Article
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Libyan Studies , Volume 21 , 1990 , pp. 9 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1990

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