
4 AFRIPAL Project – Logistics, People and Resources
AFRIPAL STATISTICS
27 specialists and support staff from the Tunisian team
30 specialists from the Polish team
54 days of fieldwork in 2018-2019 (4,320 man-hours spent in the field between 2018 and 2019)
119 days of fieldwork in 2021-2023 (22,848 man-hours spent in the field between 2021 and 2023)
106 km2 of land covered by remote sensing and archaeological surveys
20.4 ha of land covered by geophysical surveys
Trenches excavated 12
Buildings uncovered 2
Stratigraphical units registered c. 700
Architectural elements drawn c. 300
Survey units registered 176
Pottery fragments studied c. 40 000 weighing 1,800 kg
Drawn pottery fragments 2080
Bone fragments studied 5850
Botanical samples isolated 215 (1,065 kg of soil samples from 115 archaeological contexts were flotated)
Anthracological samples studied 36
Malacological samples studied 33
Inscriptions inventoried and studied 431
Samples sent for isotope analysis 150
Samples sent for C14 analyses 62
Samples sent for archaeometric analyses 63