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Excavations

Call for volunteers to join the Western Sahara Project. See the details and contact Dr Nick Brooks at http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/%7Ee118/wsahara.htm.



Articles

Brass, M. 2003. Tracing the Origins of the Ancient Egyptian Cattle Cult. In Eyma, A. & Bennett, C. (eds.) A Delta-Man in Yebu: Occassional Volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum No. 1. Parkland: Universal Publishers, 101-110. (PDF onsite)

Wendorf, F. & Schild, R. 1994. Are the Early Holocene Cattle in the Eastern Sahara Domestic or Wild? Evolutionary Anthropology 3, 118-128.

Brooks, N., Di Lernia, S., Drake, N., Raffin, M. & Savage, T. 2003. The Geoarchaeology of Western Sahara. Preliminary results of the first Anglo-Italian expedition in the liberated zone. Sahara 14: pp. 63-80 (PDF offsite)

Brooks, N. 2006. Cultural responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity. Quaternary International (draft version, PDF offsite).

Brooks, N. 2004. Beyond collapse: the role of climatic desiccation in the emergence of complex societies in the middle Holocene. In Leroy, S. & Costa, P. (Eds.) Environmental Catastrophes in Mauritania, the Desert and the Coast. Abstract Volume and Field Guide. Mauritania, 4-18 January 2004. First Joint Meeting of ICSU Dark Nature and IGCP 490. (PDF offsite)

Anag, G., Di Lernia, S., Cremaschi, M. & Liverani, M. 2002. Environment, archaeology, and oil. The Messak Settafet Rescue Operation (Libyan Sahara). African Archaeological Review 19 (2): 67-73. (PDF offsite)

Cremaschi, M. & Di Lernia, S. 1999. Holocene climatic changes and cultural dynamics in Libyan Sahara. African Archaeological Review 16 (4): 211-238. (PDF offsite)

Cremaschi, M., Di Lernia, S. & Garcea, E. 1998. Some Insights on the Aterian in the Libyan Sahara: Chronology, Environment and Archaeology. African Archaeological Review 15 (4): 261-286. (PDF offsite)

Di Lernia, S. 2001. Dismantling dung: Delayed use of food resources among Early Holocene foragers of the Libyan Sahara. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19: 1-34. (PDF offsite)

Minozzi, S., Manzi, G., Ricci, F., di Lernia, S. & Borgognini Tarli, S.M. 2003. Nonalimentary tooth use in prehistory: an Example from Early Holocene in Central Sahara (Uan Muhuggiag, Tadrart Acacus, Libya). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 120: 225-232. (PDF offsite)



Other Saharan websites

The Western Sahara Project

* Volunteer opportunities
* Historical background and the Western Sahara conflict
* Scientific context - Saharan environmental change and human occupation
* Study area
* Past and present environments
* Funerary monuments
* Rock art
* Western Sahara Project links page
* Project team and contact details
* Photos from the recent expeditions

The Fezzan Project: Geoarchaeology of the Sahara

* Study area
* Archaeology
* Palaeoclimate and environment
* Geomorphology
* Remote sensing
* Recent environmental change

Italian-Libyan Archaeological Mission in the Acacus and Messak

* Overview: Presentation, history, aims, funding, partners and staff
* Fieldwork
* Conservation and protection: Tourism, oil drilling and development
* Photo album: Geoarchaeology, prehistoric archaeology, rock art, historic archaeology and landscapes
* Maps



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