Recherche par auteur > Fenwick Corisande

Excavations in between 2000 and 2005, and from 2018 by the INSAP-UCL Volubilis Project, part of the ERC-funded ‘EverydayIslam' Project, have brought to light a large number of houses of greater and lesser complexity that allow us to reflect on the change in domestic architecture in the period after Roman imperial control. Although several of these were published by Fentress and Limane in Volubilis Après Rome: Les fouilles UCL-INSAP 2000-2005, the new excavations have revealed numerous structure, both within and outside the city walls, that shed new light on settlement and domestic architecture. Above all, there seems to be an intense imbrication of domestic and artisan activities. Within the walls we find spaces for livestock, as well as a large atelier for the production of coinage and, perhaps, glass, and kilns for pottery production. Outside the walls a dense complex of buildings shows evidence for metal work, glass manufacture, and, possibly, tanning or dying. Coins, pottery and radiocarbon place the houses inside the walls in the seventh and eighth centuries, while those on the exterior seem to range between the seventh and the ninth centuries. It may be that we are seeing two different communities, one the older Berber population of the town, the other new arrivals.