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3 - Identity Markers in South-Western Fazzan

Were the People of the Wadi Tanzzuft/Tadrart Akakus Region Garamantes?

from Part I - Burial Practices in the Central Sahara

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2019

By
Maria Carmela Gatto ,
Lucia Mori  and
Andrea Zerboni
Edited by
M. C. Gatto ,
D. J. Mattingly ,
N. Ray  and
M. Sterry
M. C. Gatto
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
D. J. Mattingly
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
N. Ray
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
M. Sterry
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

According to Herodotus’s Histories, the people living a ten day’s journey to the west of the Garamantes was the AtarantesAs suggested by Liverani,if the Garamantes are to be placed in the Wadi al-Ajal around Jarma/Garama, this would likely locate the Atarantes in the Wadi Tanzzuft/Tadrart Akakus region Fig. 3.1). Archaeological research over the last two decades has considerably improved our knowledge of Saharan civilisations that developed from the early first millennium BC to the late first millennium AD. It is now possible to get a deeper insight on how the people living in the Wadi Tanzzuft/Tadrart Akakus region expressed their identity through material culture and behaviour and their relation to trajectories in Garamantian culture.

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Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond , pp. 108 - 133
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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