Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-vfjqv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T01:15:43.976Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

DMP IX: Summary Report on the Fourth Season of Excavations of the Burials and Identity team

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

David Mattingly ,
Hafed Abduli ,
Hamza Aburgheba ,
Muftah Ahmed ,
Misbah Ali Ahmed Esmaia ,
Steve Baker ,
Franca Cole ,
Corisande Fenwick ,
Mireya Gonzalez Rodriguez  and
Matthew Hobson
...Show all authors
David Mattingly
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Hafed Abduli
Affiliation:
Université de Sousse, Tunisia
Hamza Aburgheba
Affiliation:
Department of Antiquities, Tripoli, Libya
Muftah Ahmed
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK Department of Antiquities, Tripoli, Libya
Misbah Ali Ahmed Esmaia
Affiliation:
Department of Antiquities, Tripoli, Libya
Steve Baker
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Franca Cole
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, UK
Corisande Fenwick
Affiliation:
Stanford University, USA
Mireya Gonzalez Rodriguez
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Matthew Hobson
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Nadia Khalaf
Affiliation:
Oxford Archaeology, UK
Marta Lahr
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, UK
Victoria Leitch
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, UK
Farès Moussa
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, UK
Efthymia Nikita
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, UK
David Parker
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Anita Radini
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Nick Ray
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Toby Savage
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Martin Sterry
Affiliation:
aSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK
Katia Schörle
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, UK
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The fourth season of the Burials and Identity component of the Desert Migrations Project in 2010 focused on completion of excavation work at two main cemeteries (TAG001 and TAG012) and smaller-scale sampling work at a number of nearby cemeteries. The investigation of a number of burials in a semi-nucleated escarpment cemetery TAG063 produced interesting new information on Proto-Urban Garamantian funerary rites, dating to the latter centuries BC. The excavations at TAG001 were extended to two areas of the cemetery characterised by different burial types to the stepped tombs that were excavated in 2009. A second type of fairly monumental burial was identified, but these had been heavily robbed and it was not possible to demonstrate conclusively that these pre-dated the stepped tombs. Most of the other burials excavated were simple shaft burials and were relatively sparsely furnished with imported goods, in comparison with the larger tombs, though quite a lot of organic material was identified (matting, wood, gourds, textiles and leather). At TAG012, a series of additional mudbrick tombs was emptied. All had been robbed, but pockets of the original fill and associated finds survived intact, yielding some interesting assemblages. The majority of these tombs appear to be Late Garamantian, though some contained artefacts from much earlier times.

Type
Archaeological Reports
Information
Libyan Studies , Volume 41 , 2010 , pp. 89 - 104
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Buikstra, J.E. and Ubelaker, D.H. 1994. Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains. Arkansas Archaeological Survey Report Number 44. Fayetteville, Arkansas.Google Scholar
Mattingly, D.J. 2003 = Mattingly, D.J., Daniels, C.M., Dore, J.N., Edwards, D. and Hawthorne, J., The Archaeology of Fazzān, Volume 1, Synthesis. (princ. ed. Mattingly, D.J.). Department of Antiquities, Tripoli and Society for Libyan Studies, London.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mattingly, D.J. 2007 = Mattingly, D.J., Daniels, C. M., Dore, J.N., Edwards, D. and Hawthorne, J., The Archaeology of Fazzān. Volume 2, Gazetteer, Pottery and Other Finds. Department of Antiquities, Tripoli and Society for Libyan Studies, London.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mattingly, D.J. 2010 = Mattingly, D.J., Daniels, C.M., Dore, J.N., Edwards, D. and Hawthorne, J., The Archaeology of Fazzān. Volume 3, Excavations of C. M. Daniels. Department of Antiquities, Tripoli and Society for Libyan Studies, London.Google Scholar
Mattingly, D.J., Lahr, M., Armitage, S., Barton, H., Dore, J., Drake, N., Foley, R., Merlo, S., Salem, M., Stock, J. and White, K. 2007. Desert Migrations: people, environment and culture in the Libyan Sahara. Libyan Studies 38: 115–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mattingly, D.J., Dore, J. and Lahr, M. (with contributions by others). 2008. DMP II: 2008 fieldwork on burials and identity in the Wādī al-Ajāl. Libyan Studies 39: 223–62.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mattingly, D.J., Lahr, M. and Wilson, A., with contributions by others, 2009. DMP V: Investigations in 2009 of Cemeteries and Related Sites on the West Side of the Tāqallit Promontory. Libyan Studies 40: 95–131.CrossRefGoogle Scholar