Despite a range of literary and archaeological evidence for the importance of forests in Roman Africa, these marginal lands and their marginalised populations have been almost entirely ignored or downplayed by modern scholarship, leading to tortured interpretations of a range of material. This article asks two questions, one historical, the other historiographic: what role did the forests of Africa Proconsularis play in the economies and productive imaginaries of the region's inhabitants? And why have the products, labour and labourers of sylvan industries been largely written out of modern accounts? After drawing together evidence and proxies for the centrality of Africa's pine forests to a range of lifeways, cultural practices and economies — including their fundamental (and overlooked) role in providing the pitch that lined the exported amphorae that drove North Africa's economic boom — I argue that French colonial practices around forests led to their erasure from histories of Roman Africa.

尽管有一系列文学和考古证据表明森林在罗马非洲的重要性，但这些边缘土地及其边缘化人口几乎完全被现代学术忽视或淡化，导致对一系列材料的折磨解释。本文提出了两个问题，一个是历史问题，另一个是历史问题：Africa Proconsularis 的森林在该地区居民的经济和生产想象中扮演什么角色？为什么森林工业的产品、劳动力和劳动者在很大程度上被现代账户所掩盖？在收集了非洲松林在一系列生活方式中的中心地位的证据和代理后，