Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gatto, M. C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking volume explores a series of inter-related key themes in Saharan archaeology and history. Migration and identity formation can both be approached from the perspective of funerary archaeology, using the combined evidence of burial structures, specific rites and funerary material culture, and integrated methods of skeletal analysis including morphometrics, palaeopathology and isotopes. Burial traditions from various parts of the Sahara are compared and contrasted with those of the Nile Valley, the Maghreb and West Africa. Several chapters deal with the related evidence of human migration derived from linguistic study. The volume presents the state of the field of funerary archaeology in the Sahara and its neighbouring regions and sets the agenda for future research on mobility, migration and identity. It will be a seminal reference point for Mediterranean and African archaeologists, historians and anthropologists as well as archaeologists interested in burial and migration more broadly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108577458
• Artikelnr.: 62738319

Inhaltsangabe

Preface David J. Mattingly; 1. Burials, migration and identity: the view
from the Sahara David J. Mattingly, Maria Carmela Gatto, Martin Sterry and
Nick Ray; Part I. Burial Practices in the Central Sahara: 2. Dying to be
Garamantian: burial, migration and identity in Fazzan David J. Mattingly,
Martin Sterry and Nicholas Ray; 3. Identity markers in the South-Western
Fazzan: were the people of the Tanezuft/Tadrart Akakus region Garamantes?
Maria Carmela Gatto, Lucia Mori and Andrea Zerboni; 4. Human mobility and
identity: variation, diet and migration in relation to the Garamantes of
Fazzan Ronika K. Power, Efthymia Nikita, David J. Mattingly, Marta Mirazón
Lahr and Tamsin C. O'Connell; 5. The Garamantes from Fewet (Ghat, Fazzan,
Libya): a skeletal perspective Francesca Ricci, Mary Anne Tafuri, Francesca
Castorina, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Lucia Mori and Giorgio Manzi; Part II.
Looking East: 6. Between the Nile and the Sahara: some comparative
perspectives David N. Edwards; 7. Isotopic approaches to mobility in
Northern Africa: a bioarchaeological examination of Egyptian/Nubian
interaction in the Nile Valley Michele R. Buzon, Sarah A. Schrader and
Gabriel J. Bowen; Part III. Looking North: 8. Numidian burial practices
Joan Sanmartí, Irene Cruz Folch, Jordi Campillo and David Montanero; 9.
Revisiting first Millennium BC graves in North-West Morocco Emanuele Papi;
Part IV. Looking West: 10. Protohistoric and pre-Islamic funerary
archaeology in the Moroccan pre-Sahara Youssef Bokbot; 11. Burial practices
in Western Sahara Joanne Clarke and Nick Brooks; Part V. Looking South: 12.
Burial and society at Kissi, Burkina Faso Sonja Magnavita; 13. Burial
practices, settlement and regional connections around the Southern Lake
Chad Basin, 1500 BC-AD 1500 Scott MacEachern; Part VI. Linguistic Aspects
of Migration and Identity: 14. The linguistic prehistory of the Sahara
Roger Blench; 15. Berber peoples in the Sahara and North Africa: linguistic
historical proposals Christopher Ehret; 16. The archaeological and genetic
correlates of Amazight linguistics Elizabeth Fentress; 17. Concluding
discussion Martin Sterry, David J. Mattingly, Maria Carmela Gatto and Nick
Ray.