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The Archaeology of Western Sahara - A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009 (Hardcover)
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The Archaeology of Western Sahara - A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009 (Hardcover)
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Contrary to much perceived wisdom, the Sahara is a rich and varied
tapestry of diverse environments that sustain an array of
ecosystems. Throughout its history, the Sahara has been a stage for
human evolution, with human habitation, movement and lifeways
shaped by a dynamic environment of successive phases of relative
humidity and aridity driven by wider global climatic changes. The
nature of human utilization of the landscape has undergone many
changes, from the ephemeral and ill-defined lithic scatters of the
Early Holocene to the dense and complex funerary landscapes of Late
Holocene Pastoral period. Generally speaking, the living have left
very little trace of their existence while funerary monuments
endure, stamping the landscape with a cultural timelessness that
marks certain regions of the desert as "special". During the last
ten years, the Western Sahara Project has undertaken large scale
archaeological and environmental research that has begun to address
the gaps in our knowledge of the archaeology and palaeoenvironments
of Western Sahara, and to develop narratives of prehistoric
cultural adaptation and change from the end of the Pleistocene to
the Late Holocene and place it within its wider Saharan context. A
detailed discussion of past environmental change and a presentation
of results from the environmental component of the extensive survey
work are provided. A typology of built stone features - monuments
and funerary architecture is presented together with the results of
the archaeological component of the extensive survey work, focusing
on stone features, but also including discussion of ceramics and
rock art and the analysis of lithic assemblages. Chapters focusing
on intensive survey work in key study areas consider the landscape
contexts of monuments and the results of excavation of burial
cairns and artefact scatters.
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