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- Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
- Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Burials, Migration and Identity
- Part I Burial Practices in the Central Sahara
- Part II Looking East
- Part III Looking North
- Part IV Looking West
- Part V Looking South
- Part VI Linguistic Aspects of Migration and Identity
- Index
- References
Part I - Burial Practices in the Central Sahara
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2019
- Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
- Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Burials, Migration and Identity
- Part I Burial Practices in the Central Sahara
- Part II Looking East
- Part III Looking North
- Part IV Looking West
- Part V Looking South
- Part VI Linguistic Aspects of Migration and Identity
- Index
- References
Summary
Theprevious chapterintroduced the Garamantes, an ancient Saharan people, whose story can be traced archaeologically through the first millennium BC and first millennium AD (see also Figs 1.1and1.2 for location maps). This chapter presents evidence on the funerary practices of the Garamantian heartlands in the Wadi al-Ajal in the Libyan Fazzan (Central Sahara). The Wadi al-Ajal is a long and thin oasis depression running for c.150 km from al-Abyad (to the south-west of Fazzan’s modern capital at Sabha) to Ubari. Our work has been particularly focused on the area around Jarma (ancient Garama, the Garamantian capital about 40 km east of Ubari). The burials in these Garamantian heartlands differ in certain significant ways from those recorded by the Italian mission at Aghram Nadharif and Fewet, and an interesting aspect of the discussion we shall develop below seeks to explain this difference.
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