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This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.
Author : Martin Sterry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108494447
This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.
Author : D. J. Mattingly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108195407
Saharan trade has been much debated in modern times, but the main focus of interest remains the medieval and early modern periods, for which more abundant written sources survive. The pre-Islamic origins of Trans-Saharan trade have been hotly contested over the years, mainly due to a lack of evidence. Many of the key commodities of trade are largely invisible archaeologically, being either of high value like gold and ivory, or organic like slaves and textiles or consumable commodities like salt. However, new research on the Libyan people known as the Garamantes and on their trading partners in the Sudan and Mediterranean Africa requires us to revise our views substantially. In this volume experts re-assess the evidence for a range of goods, including beads, textiles, metalwork and glass, and use it to paint a much more dynamic picture, demonstrating that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought.
Author : M. C. Gatto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 110847408X
Places burial traditions at the centre of Saharan migrations and identity debate, with new technical data and methodological analysis.
Author : C. N. Duckworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1108830544
Examines key technological innovations, knowledge transfer, connectivity and social meaning in the ancient and Medieval Sahara.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004414363
Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of large parts of the Roman Empire. In accounting for region-specific urban patterns it uses a combination of diachronic and synchronic approaches.
Author : Francesca Fulminante
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107030358
An original and unprecedented analysis of urbanization and state formation in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era.
Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199589534
In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time. Written by leading scholar, this is the first detailed survey of the world's cities and towns from ancient times to the present day.
Author : C. N. Duckworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 110890484X
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.
Author : D. J. Mattingly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110719699X
Demonstrates that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought, with trade an essential linking element.
Author : Frank Raymond Allchin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 1995-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521376952
A study of the cities and states of South Asia between c.800BC and AD 250.