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History of the project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first idea for a \u2018Project for a Historical Atlas of Ancient North Africa\u2019 was born in 2007-2008 by Claude Briand-Ponsart and Yves Mod\u00e9ran of the University of Caen Basse-Normandie – CRAHAM, with the aim of meeting scientific and educational needs through a work of around 200 pages, organised thematically, with a description of each map, and produced in partnership with the University of Sousse.
Another idea, the \u2018Salama Project, cartography of Roman Africa\u2019 by Luc Lapierre, at the time of the CNES Sports and Cultural Association, archaeology section, which became ACT (Arch\u00e9o-Cartographie Toulouse), was first considered at the end of 2007 with an ambitious Wikipedia-type operation. In 2009, it will take a much more reasonable form with the Salama_SIG project, which essentially consists of digitising the Salama map and linking it to a basic database, with a default topographical base map.
Jehan Desanges, as a member of Aouras, introduced Luc Lapierre to Yves Mod\u00e9ran, who wanted to see how the projects could converge. Regrettably, Yves Mod\u00e9ran died in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, following a number of previous exchanges, Claude Briand-Ponsart asked Luc Lapierre, at the Sousse archaeological conference, to set up a collaborative project to map ancient North Africa and the medieval Maghreb. The project was born under the name AFRICAE (Latin plural, because it includes two major periods) and its beginnings were presented at the 2017 Sousse symposium. During this conference, Azzedine Bechaouch asked that the project be limited to Antiquity. At his request, it then became the AFRICA project.
From 2020, the AFRICA project will gain new strength by bringing together specific applications developed with the Centre Camille Jullian (CCJ), on the initiative of Katia Sch\u00f6rle..
In 2022, thanks to Michel Dabas (AOrOc), the AFRICA project began to be implemented on the Chronocarto portal. The necessary IT developments were carried out by Yadh Riahi (Yebni\/AOrOc).
The project opens on Chronocarto in December 2024 and returns to its original name, AFRICAE, with the plural this time denoting all the Roman provinces of Africa covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project management<\/strong> : Luc Lapierre , Katia Sch\u00f6rle, Claude Briand-Ponsart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initialisation<\/strong>
Luc Lapierre has defined his architecture and initialized it with the maps published in 2010 by Brepols in the book by Jehan Desanges, No\u00ebl Duval, Claude Lepelley and Sophie Saint Amans, often referred to as the new Salama, supplemented for the area not covered in Algeria by the historical map by Pierre Salama. The initial work on ancient Morocco is being carried out in the same spirit. Other sites have already been included in the project as a result of collaborative surveys and studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The database<\/strong>
Structuring the database required a lot of discussion.
The first level provides a summary description of the entities. These are the primary tables. For example, for a site, we find : the list of ancient and contemporary names, the label displayed on the map next to its symbol, a short description, information about its position on the map (archaeological, approximate, according to which source, etc.), current geographical data (country, administrative structure), its existence on a traditional map (e.g. : Salama, new Salama). Roman roads are shown and often appear in red (indicative route) and only for a few today, with more precise routes as a hypothesis in purple or archaeological in green.
A second, much more detailed level consists of secondary tables. For sites, these will be the following : Ancient names, Ancient locations, Literary sources, Statutes, Institutional structures, Site buildings , Inscriptions , Economic activities, Religions, Historical elements, Presences. It is in these secondary tables that we find dating and presences. Presence is to be understood in the following sense : Numidian, Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, etc. Presences can be defined for a site, with their dates, if known, in a separate secondary table.
Then there are cross-tables : bibliography and documents, soon to include access to public data from NAHAN (North African Heritage Archives Network). Intermediate tables provide links to the various features represented on the map : sites, site buildings, milestones, track buildings, tracks and isolated buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFRICAE<\/strong>, a collaborative project contributing to the development of knowledge of ancient North Africa through two collaborative modes\u00a0: the Chronocarto portal and GIS. It makes extensive use of spatial imagery for historical studies and archaeological research, while providing them with a geographical context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partners<\/strong>
NAHAN (North African Heritage Archives Network) : https:\/\/nahan.huma-num.fr\/<\/a>
Arch\u00e9o-Cartographie Toulouse (ACT) : https:\/\/www.act-archeocartographie.org<\/a>
Centre Camille Jullian (CCJ) : https:\/\/ccj.cnrs.fr<\/a>
Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9tudes et de recherches sur l\u2019Aur\u00e8s antique (Aouras) : http:\/\/www.aouras.org<\/a>
Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Fran\u00e7aise de Photogramm\u00e9trie et de T\u00e9l\u00e9d\u00e9tection (SFPT) : https:\/\/www.sfpt.fr<\/a>
AOrOc : https:\/\/www.archeo.ens.fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Links<\/strong>
Luc Lapierre (ACT\/Aouras\/SFPT\/AOrOc) : https:\/\/www.archeo.ens.fr\/Lapierre-Luc.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibliography<\/summary>\n

Reference documents<\/strong><\/strong>
GSELL S., 1911, Atlas Arch\u00e9ologique de l\u2019Alg\u00e9rie\u00a0; Edition sp\u00e9ciale des cartes au 200.000e du Service G\u00e9ographique de l\u2019Arm\u00e9e avec un texte explicatif r\u00e9dig\u00e9 par S. Gsell, Adolphe Jourdan\u00a0; Fontemoing & Cie, Alger\u00a0; Paris.
BABELON E., CAGNAT R., REINACH S., CHABOT J.-B. (1940), 1892-1913, Atlas arch\u00e9ologique de la Tunisie au 1\/50 000, 60 cartes [pour le nord et le nord-est], Ernest Leroux, Paris\u00a0; in BCTH, 1938-1940, p. 709-728.
CAGNAT R., MERLIN A., 1914-1932, Atlas arch\u00e9ologique de la Tunisie au 1\/100 000, 16 cartes [pour le centre-ouest], Paris.
SALAMA P., 1951, Les voies romaines de l\u2019Afrique du Nord. Imprimerie officielle du Gouvernement G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019Alg\u00e9rie.
GOODSCHILD R. G. (\u00e9d.), 1954, Tabula Imperii Romani 1\/1 000 000. Sheet N, I, 33\u00a0: Lepcis Magna. Map of Roman Libya, West Sheet (Tripolitania), Oxford University Press.
BEN BAAZIZ S. (dir.), depuis 1998, CNSA (Carte nationale des sites arch\u00e9ologiques et des monuments historiques) au 1\/50 000, INP (publ.), Tunis.
SLIM H., TROUSSET P., PASKOFF R. et alii, 2004, Le littoral de la Tunisie. Etude g\u00e9oarch\u00e9ologique et historique. Paris\u00a0: \u00c9ditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
DESANGES J., DUVAL N., LEPELLEY C., SAINT-AMANS S., 2010, Carte des routes et des cit\u00e9s de l\u2019Est de l\u2019Africa \u00e0 la fin de l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9, d\u2019apr\u00e8s le trac\u00e9 de Pierre Salama. Brepols Publishers.
REBUFFAT R., LIMANE H., 2011 (vol. 1), AKERRAZ A., LIMANE H., REBUFFAT R., 2012 (vol. 2), AKERRAZ A., BROUQUIER-REDDE V., LENOIR E., REBUFFAT R., 2021 (vol. 3), Carte arch\u00e9ologique du Maroc antique, Le bassin du S\u00e9bou. Villes et sites arch\u00e9ologiques du Maroc (VESAM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initial Project\u00a0: Salama_SIG<\/strong><\/strong>
LAPIERRE L., 2010, \u00ab\u00a0Projet de cartographie de l\u2019Afrique antique sur Syst\u00e8me d\u2019Information G\u00e9ographique (SIG)\u00a0\u00bb, Aouras 6, p. 285-294.
LAPIERRE L., 2012, \u00ab\u00a0Initialisation du projet de cartographie de l\u2019Afrique antique sur Syst\u00e8me d\u2019Information G\u00e9ographique (SIG)\u00a0\u00bb, Aouras 7, p. 338-359.
LAPIERRE L., DECRAMER L., HILTON R., ALOUANI S., 2014, \u00ab\u00a0Projet de cartographie de l\u2019Afrique antique sur Syst\u00e8me d\u2019Information G\u00e9ographique (SIG). \u00c9tudes de voies dans leurs environnements antiques\u00a0\u00bb, Actes du premier colloque international de \u00ab\u00a0G\u00e9ographie historique du Maghreb antique et m\u00e9di\u00e9val\u00a0: \u00e9tat des lieux et perspectives de recherches\u00a0\u00bb, Sousse, du 14 au 16 mars 2014, p. 119-145.
LAPIERRE L., 2015, \u00ab\u00a0Projet de cartographie de l\u2019Afrique antique sur Syst\u00e8me d\u2019Information G\u00e9ographique (SIG). Des voies dans leurs environnements antiques\u00a0\u00bb, Arch\u00e9o 66, bulletin de l\u2019AAPO n\u00b030, 2015, p. 143-152.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project AFRICA<\/strong>
LAPIERRE L., BRIAND PONSART C., 2017, \u00ab\u00a0Projet collaboratif de cartographie de l\u2019Afrique du Nord AFRICA\u00a0\u00bb, Actes du quatri\u00e8me colloque international \u00ab\u00a0Vie et genres de vie au Maghreb, Antiquit\u00e9 et Moyen-\u00c2ge\u00a0\u00bb, Sousse (Tunisie), 5 au 6 mai 2017, p. 293-306.
LAPIERRE L., BRIAND PONSART C., PLAS A., 2018, \u00ab\u00a0AFRICA, projet collaboratif de cartographie de l\u2019Afrique du Nord antique\u00a0: structuration de la base de donn\u00e9es et perspectives\u00a0\u00bb, actes du cinqui\u00e8me colloque international \u00ab\u00a0Fronti\u00e8res, territoires et mobilit\u00e9s au Maghreb (Antiquit\u00e9 et Moyen-\u00c2ge)\u00a0\u00bb, Sousse, du 3 au 5 mai 2018, p. 371-389.
LAPIERRE L., BRIAND PONSART C., PLAS A., 2020, \u00ab\u00a0AFRICA, projet collaboratif de cartographie de l\u2019Afrique du Nord antique\u00a0: derni\u00e8res avanc\u00e9es ciblant les r\u00e9gions autour de l\u2019Aur\u00e8s\u00a0\u00bb, Aouras 10, p. 325-354.
BRIAND-PONSART C., LAPIERRE L., 2022, \u00ab\u00a0Le pass\u00e9 au futur\u00a0: le projet AFRICA et l\u2019imagerie spatiale au service de l\u2019arch\u00e9ologie\u00a0\u00bb, Mondes et Cultures. Bulletin de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences d\u2019Outre-Mer, p. 760-771.
LAPIERRE L., RIAHI Y., 2024, \u00ab\u00a0AFRICA\u00a0: \u00c9volution vers le mode collaboratif, un nouveau regard sur la r\u00e9gion des Aur\u00e8s dans l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, Aouras 11, p. 127-151.
LAPIERRE L., SCHORLE K., BRIAND-PONSART C., RIAHI Y., SUAREZ R., \u00ab\u00a0AFRICAE\u00a0: Projet de cartographie collaborative de l\u2019Afrique du Nord antique, d\u00e9fis et enjeux\u00a0\u00bb, Revue Fran\u00e7aise de Photogramm\u00e9trie et de T\u00e9l\u00e9d\u00e9tection (RFPT), \u00e0 para\u00eetre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Utilisation of AFRICAE<\/strong>
OUKAOUR A., LAPIERRE L., 2024, \u00ab\u00a0Recherche du trac\u00e9 pr\u00e9cis de la voie Ad Medias – Ad Majores au sud de l\u2019Aur\u00e8s et apport de l\u2019imagerie spatiale\u00a0\u00bb, Aouras 11, p. 249-269.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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