van Dommelen & Bellard/Rural Landscapes, 1. Defining the Punic World and its Rural Contexts

The objectives of the book are highlighted in this chapter as two-fold: creating a comprehensive overview of this developing field by bringing together from across the Punic world the evidence for rural settlement and organisation that has largely been discovered in recent years, and reviewing this evidence critically and to compareing its characteristics across the various regions of the Punic world. Moreover, the chapter provides a definition for the Punic World, its scope and context.