event · evt_althiburos_early_mixed_farming
Early mixed farming at Althiburos
Plant, animal, and dung evidence indicates crop cultivation, cattle, caprines, pigs, and integrated husbandry at the inland settlement.
What is the evidence?
observation
Plant, animal, and dung evidence indicates crop cultivation, cattle, caprines, pigs, and integrated husbandry at the inland settlement.Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1000 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: range
moderateThis assertion records the event’s preferred range without suppressing narrower samples, phase uncertainty, or competing chronology noted elsewhere in the record.
- informs · dates
Domestic patterns in the Numidian site of Althiburos (northern Tunisia): The results from a combined study of animal bones, dung and plant remains — Portillo, Marta, Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia, Albert, Rosa M. (2012)Provides the mixed farming evidence and chronology.
Locator: pp. 84–96; samples, phases, and synthesis
Interpretation and caveats
Althiburos demonstrates indigenous inland agricultural development and continuity close to the period of early Phoenician coastal settlement.
Event context
Classification
Event type: agricultural system development
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Althiburos
Why it matters to the timeline
This event directly documents the North African research scope in Tunisia and central Maghreb. It is included for its regional evidence rather than merely because it is contemporary.
Research notes
- Provides the mixed farming evidence and chronology. Role: provides archaeological observation. Locator: pp. 84–96; samples, phases, and synthesis.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Domestic patterns in the Numidian site of Althiburos (northern Tunisia): The results from a combined study of animal bones, dung and plant remains — Portillo, Marta, Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia, Albert, Rosa M. (2012)Provides the mixed farming evidence and chronology.
Locator: pp. 84–96; samples, phases, and synthesis
Referenced records
- Althiburos · entity