David Mattingly (author)

David John Mattingly ( born May 18, 1958 in Nottingham ) is a British provincial Roman archaeologist.

Mattingly studied history at the University of Manchester, where he was a PhD in Barri Jones with a thesis on Roman Tripolitania. Subsequently, he was from 1986 to 1989 British Academy Post doctoral fellow at Oxford. 1989 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Since December 1991 he has taught at the University of Leicester (1991 Lecturer, Reader 1995, 1998, Professor of Roman Archaeology ).

Since 1993, Mattingly member of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA ), since 2003, the British Academy ( FBA).

Mattinglys main area of ​​research is the Roman North Africa, particularly Libya and Tunisia. On the basis of numerous archaeological expeditions in Libya, especially in Tripolitania and Fezzan in, he is particularly concerned with rural settlement and economic forms, the Roman military frontier ( Limes Tripolitanus ) and indigenous peoples outside this limit. A second focus of his work is the archeology and history of Roman Britain.

Publications (selection)

  • With DJ Buck ( ed.): Town and Country in Roman Tripolitania. Papers in Honour of Olwen Hackett. Oxford 1985.
  • With J. A. Lloyd ( ed.): Libya. Research in Archaeology, Environment, History and Society from 1969 to 1989. London 1989.
  • With Barri Jones: An Atlas of Roman Britain. Blackwell, Oxford 1990. ISBN 0-631-13791-2.
  • Et al: Leptiminus ( Lamta ). A Roman port city in Tunisia. Vol 1-3. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series 4 41 87 Portsmouth, RI From 1992 to 2011.
  • Tripolitania. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1994, ISBN 0-472-10658-9 / Batsford, London 1995, ISBN 0-7134-5742-2.
  • Et al: Farming the Desert. The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Archaeological Survey. Vol 1-2. London 1996.
  • With David S. Potter ( Eds.): Life, Death, and Entertainment in Ancient Rome. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1999.
  • Et al: The Archaeology of Fazzan. Vol 1-3. London from 2003 to 2010.
  • An Imperial Possession. Britain in the Roman Empire. Penguin, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-14-014822-0.
  • Inter alia, (Ed.): The Libyan Desert. Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage. Society for Libyan Studies, London, 2006. ISBN 978-1-900971-04-1.
  • Imperialism, Power and Identity. Experiencing the Roman Empire. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2011, ISBN 978-0-691-14605-8.
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