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Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
  • Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
  • Edited by C. N. Duckworth, A. Cuénod, D. J. Mattingly
  • Published online: 18 September 2020
  • Print publication: 03 September 2020
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    The ancient Sahara has often been treated as a periphery or barrier, but this agenda-setting book – the final volume of the Trans-Saharan Archaeology Series – demonstrates that it was teeming with technological innovations, knowledge transfer, and trade from long before the Islamic period. In each chapter, expert authors present important syntheses, and new evidence for technologies from oasis farming and irrigation, animal husbandry and textile weaving, to pottery, glass and metal making by groups inhabiting the Sahara and contiguous zones. Scientific analysis is brought together with anthropology and archaeology. The resultant picture of transformations in technologies between the third millennium BC and the second millennium AD is rich and detailed, including analysis of the relationship between the different materials and techniques discussed, and demonstrating the significance of the Sahara both in its own right and in telling the stories of neighbouring regions.
  • Part III - Looking North
  • Edited by M. C. Gatto, University of Leicester, D. J. Mattingly, University of Leicester, N. Ray, University of Oxford, M. Sterry, University of Durham
  • Book: Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
  • Published online: 21 June 2019
  • Print publication: 14 February 2019, pp 247-312
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    Summary

    The Maghrib has a rich tradition of archaeological studies. However, this research has been biased from the chronological and cultural points of view. This is due to different reasons, relating to both the nature of the archaeological record and the ideological and political circumstances that developed successively under colonial rule and, from the mid-twentieth century, in the modern independent states of the area.

    In general, comparatively little attention has been paid to the indigenous cultures of the pre-Roman period, in particular as regards dwelling sites, which generally underlie thick stratigraphic deposits of later periods. The situation is somewhat different with regard to funerary archaeology, as North Africa, especially its eastern portion, is characterised by the existence of a surprising number and diversity of pre-Roman sepulchral monuments.

  • Part I - Burial Practices in the Central Sahara
  • Edited by M. C. Gatto, University of Leicester, D. J. Mattingly, University of Leicester, N. Ray, University of Oxford, M. Sterry, University of Durham
  • Book: Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
  • Published online: 21 June 2019
  • Print publication: 14 February 2019, pp 51-192
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    Summary

    The previous chapter introduced the Garamantes, an ancient Saharan people, whose story can be traced archaeologically through the first millennium BC and first millennium AD (see also Figs 1.1and 1.2 for location maps). This chapter presents evidence on the funerary practices of the Garamantian heartlands in the Wadi al-Ajal in the Libyan Fazzan (Central Sahara). The Wadi al-Ajal is a long and thin oasis depression running for c.150 km from al-Abyad (to the south-west of Fazzan’s modern capital at Sabha) to Ubari. Our work has been particularly focused on the area around Jarma (ancient Garama, the Garamantian capital about 40 km east of Ubari). The burials in these Garamantian heartlands differ in certain significant ways from those recorded by the Italian mission at Aghram Nadharif and Fewet, and an interesting aspect of the discussion we shall develop below seeks to explain this difference.

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