Ben Lazreg, L. Stirling, and J. P. Moore, eds. 2021. Leptiminus (Lamta) Report no. 4: The East Cemetery: Stratigraphy, ceramics, non-ceramic finds and bio-archaeological studies (JRA Suppl. 110; Portsmouth RI).

The site monograph for joint Tunisian-Canadian excavations at the East Cemetery at Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia) has just been published in the supplementary series of the Journal of Roman Archaeology. Jennifer Moore at Trent University and Lea Stirling are co-editors, along with Tunisian co-director, Nejib Ben Lazreg. 

Leptiminus 4 presents a comprehensive suite of artifacts, ecofacts, and stratigraphy largely from the ‘pagan’ sector of the cemetery (mostly 2^nd-3^rd c.), supplemented by a report on the exquisite tomb mosaics of the Christian sector (4th and 5th c.). Moreover, extensive synthesis ties the findings into broader social and archaeological issues and situates the burial practices at this cemetery within Roman North Africa on a comprehensive scale. What emerges is a multi-faceted image of ordinary people who were very much tied into both their own region and the broader Roman empire, all the while developing distinctive ways of responding to death.

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