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.
