David Mattingly

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

Mattingly studied history at the University of Manchester and received his doctorate there with Barri Jones with a thesis on Roman Tripolitania. He was then a British Academy Post doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford from 1986 to 1989 . From 1989 to 1991 he was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . Since December 1991 he has been teaching at the University of Leicester (1991 Lecturer , 1995 Reader , 1998 Professor of Roman Archeology).

Mattingly has been a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) since 1993 and of the British Academy (FBA) since 2003 . In 2013 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

Mattingly's main area of ​​research is Roman North Africa, especially Libya and Tunisia . Starting from numerous archaeological expeditions in Libya, especially in Tripolitania and in Fessan , he deals in particular with rural settlement and economic forms, the Roman military border ( Limes Tripolitanus ) and indigenous peoples outside this border. 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 Honor of Olwen Hackett. Oxford 1985.
  • with JA Lloyd (Ed.): Libya. Research in Archeology, Environment, History and Society 1969-1989. London 1989.
  • with Barri Jones: An Atlas of Roman Britain. Blackwell, Oxford 1990. ISBN 0-631-13791-2 .
  • u. a .: Leptiminus (Lamta). A Roman port city in Tunisia. Vol. 1-3. Journal of Roman Archeology, Supplementary Series 4. 41. 87. Portsmouth, RI 1992-2011.
  • Tripolitania. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1994, ISBN 0-472-10658-9 / Batsford, London 1995, ISBN 0-7134-5742-2 .
  • u. a .: Farming the Desert. The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Archaeological Survey. Vol. 1-2. London 1996.
  • with David S. Potter (Ed.): Life, Death, and Entertainment in Ancient Rome. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1999.
  • u. a .: The Archeology of Fazzān. Vol. 1-3. London 2003-2010.
  • To Imperial Possession. Britain in the Roman Empire. Penguin, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-14-014822-0 .
  • u. a. (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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: David John Mattingly. Academia Europaea, accessed January 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mattingly, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mattingly, David John (full name); Mattingly, David J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Provincial Roman Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham