Michel Bonifay’s research while affiliated with Aix-Marseille University and other places

... Publications that include osteological analysis of human remains from the Mediterranean region in the first millennia BC and AD are limited but some serve as useful comparisons for our data. At the tophet of Dougga in northern Tunisia, for example, no evidence of trauma was found in the cremated remains of infants (Aounallah et al. 2020). Adults from the nearby Roman site of Pupput had cribra orbitalia and joint disease was also observed in their vertebrae (Aïcha & Griesheimer 2004), while low frequencies of enamel hypoplasia, cribra orbitalia and possibly rickets were also found in adults at Leptiminus (Stirling et al. 2001), suggesting that health problems experienced at some Roman sites were of a sufficient degree to leave marks in the skeletons of some individuals, albeit in low frequencies. ...

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The life and death of cremated infants and children from the Neo-Punic tophet at Zita, Tunisia

... This bowl can be classified as African red slip ware (Hayes 1972), a specific form of terra sigillata that was produced from the 1st to the 7th century AD in what is modern day Tunisia. It can be further categorised as Hayes 99B, a pottery type with an estimated production start of around 530 AD (Cau et al. 2011). The burial itself dates to the second half of the 6th century based on typochronological evidence. ...

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A rune-like carving on a terra sigillata bowl from the early medieval cemetery of Deiningen, Bavaria

... The problem is that we do not have, prior to the first half of the fifth century, any archaeological evidence of joint transport of ARS and African amphorae. ARS cargoes of the second to fourth centuries are completely lacking, except for some complementary loading on ships with a heterogeneous cargo of Spanish and African amphorae, which are difficult to interpret (Bonifay and Tchernia 2012). Obviously ARS was mainly travelling with another commodity that archaeology is unable to identify. ...

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African economy: the ceramic evidence

... Nel primo caso esse sono anche piuttosto grossolane (fino a 1mm), costituite da quarzo (eolico nella frazione maggiore) associato a noduli di calcare e areniti/siltiti. L'impasto è quello caratteristico del tipo, come evidenziato anche dalla presenza di strie di argilla carbonatica mal mescolata (Bonifay, Capelli e Moliner 2011). Nel secondo caso il quarzo è generalmente angoloso, più abbondante e meno grossolano (<0.5mm). ...

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Osservazioni archeologiche ed archeometriche preliminari sui grandi trend dei prodotti africani nel porto di Neapolis/Napoli

... The tables in this paper provide datasets related to comprehensive pottery assemblage information, including the assessment of chronology. These tables also refer to established protocols for comparing pottery assemblages from other research projects conducted in various parts of the Mediterranean basin (Cau et al., 2011). Importantly, it is not necessary to apply correction indices to assemblages collected from surface surveys (NMI). ...

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The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb

... Also, the archaeological information must be considered and integrated with the archaeometric results; a number of archaeological studies on Tunisian workshops have been published so far (Peacock et al. 1989(Peacock et al. , 1990Stirling and Ben Lazreg 2001;Bonifay 2004;Bonifay et al. 2005;Mrabet and Ben Moussa 2007;Nacef 2007Nacef , 2010Dore 2011). In addition, some archaeometric studies on consumption centres (Gandolfi et al. 2010;Bonifay et al. 2011;Lemaître et al. 2011;Fantuzzi et al. 2015aFantuzzi et al. , 2015b have provided further evidence on the characterisation and provenance of Tunisian amphorae. ...

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Archaeometric analysis of Late Roman amphorae from Africa in the ancient city of Iluro (Mataró, Catalonia, Spain)

... Despite the morphological similarities with type Tripolitanian III, sample EMP338 seems to be a Tunisian product as well, since its fabric is not compatible with those related to that type (Peacock 1984;Bonifay 2004, 29;Bonifay et al. 2010a). On the contrary, fabric PF 16 (EMP341) matches the one found in type Benghazi LR7 (Bonifay et al. 2010b), dated to between the late fifth century and the first half of the sixth century. A Tripolitanian origin has been proposed for this type; however, no workshops are known to date. ...

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Archaeometric Characterization of Amphorae from the Late Antique City of Emporiae (Catalonia, Spain): Amphorae from the Late Antique city of Emporiae (Catalonia, Spain)

... Nel caso specifico delle anfore globulari altomedievali, la disarticolazione delle precedenti classificazioni tipologiche sta portando ad una ridefinizione sempre più approfondita ed evidence-based su base archeometrica delle produzioni regionali o sub-regionali di questi contenitori da trasporto, con la possibilità di delineare nuovi modelli interpretativi dell'economia agricola e degli assetti geo-economici mediterranei durante questa fase di transizione dal mondo antico a quello medievale (CAPELLI, BONIFAY 2007;EID. 2016;BONIFAY, CAPELLI 2018). ...

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Eonomia e scambi nel Mediterraneo tra la fine dell'Antichità e l'Altomedioevo: dall'ordine tipologico al 'Chaos' archeometrico

... go il litorale orientale nord africano, già attestata qualche decennio dopo a Neapolis con le anfore T-5.2.3.1. (Slim et al., 2007;Bonifay et al., 2010), di cui si tratterà di seguito (cfr. infra). ...

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SANNA IGNAZIO_APPRODI E TRAFFICI TRANSMARINI NELLA CAGLIARI PUNICA: I DATI DELLA RICERCA ARCHEOLOGICA SUBACQUEA

... Las primeras clasificaciones de Waagé (1948) y Lamboglia (1958;1963), junto con la de J.W. Hayes (1972) y los volúmenes I-IV de las publicaciones de las excavaciones de las termas del Nuotatore en Ostia, fueron recopiladas y fijadas en el Atlante I (1981) por A. Carandini, S. Tortorella y otros autores. Posteriormente, M. Bonifay ha ido actualizando y ampliando el panorama de estas producciones gracias al mejor conocimiento de los centros productores y a los análisis arqueométricos, llegando al estado actual de la cuestión (Bonifay 2004;Bonifay, Capelli y Brun 2012;Bonifay 2016). ...

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TUSET, J., RIPOLL, G., TUSET, F. & MESAS, I., La circulación de productos cerámicos entre los siglos II y III en Sant Hilari d’Abrera (Abrera, Baix Llobregat, Barcelona), in Los cursos fluviales en Hispania, vías de comercio cerámico, Actas del VI Congreso Internacional de la SECAH / Sociedad de Estudios de la Cerámica Antigua en Hispania (Zaragoza 2022), Monografías Ex Officina Hispana 6, 525-532.