Ethnoarchaeology of the Kel Tadrart Tuareg Pastoralism and Resilience in Central Sahara /

• Main Author: Biagetti, Stefano (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, 6
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

This book focuses on the issues of resilience and variability of desert pastoralists, explicitly challenging a set of traditional topics of the discourse around pastoralism in arid lands of the Old World. Based on a field research carried out on the Kel Tadrart Tuareg in Libya, various facets of a s...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Research Objectives, Materials and Methods
• Chapter 2: The Environment
• Chapter 3: The Kel Tadrart Tuareg: ethnohistorical and ethnographic background
• Chapter 4: The Regional Level of Analysis
• Chapter 5: Site Specific Analysis: Composition and Layout
• Chapter 6: The abandoned Campsites in the Tadrart Acacus
• Chapter 7: Ethnoarchaeological suggestions for a review of the last 3,000 years in the Tadrart Acacus
• Chapter 8: Conclusions.