Mobile technologies in the ancient Sahara and beyond:

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 c...

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Other Authors: Duckworth, Chloë ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor), Cuénod, Aurélie 1985- (Editor), Mattingly, D. J. 1958- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020
Series:Trans-saharan archaeology
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Summary: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
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Sep 2020)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 511 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108908047
DOI:10.1017/9781108908047

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