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SUMMARY:The Trans-Sahara Project. State Formation\, Migration and Trade in
  the Central Sahara (1000 BC – AD 1500) - Dr. Ronika Power
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CONTACT:Dr Katherine Bowers
DESCRIPTION:The *Trans-Sahara Project* seeks to explore questions of state
  formation\, migration and trade in the central Sahara (1000 BC - AD 1500)
 \, using the Garamantes civilisation as the research fulcrum. The Garamant
 es were renowned for their sophisticated methods of irrigated agriculture 
 and were a focal point in the pre-Islamic era for communication and trade 
 networks that linked the Nile\, Mediterranean and Maghreb with Sub-Saharan
  societies around Lake Chad and the Niger Bend. This presentation will det
 ail how the *Trans-Sahara Project* is exploring the degree of interconnect
 edness or comparative isolation of the Central Sahara with/from these neig
 hbouring regions\, especially concerning the movement of people\, ideas/kn
 owledge and material culture into and out of Fazzan in the pre-Islamic per
 iod. Using osteological\, craniomorphometrical and isotopic analyses\, a t
 eam of Cambridge scientists are examining the geographical affinity/ies of
  Garamantian society\, with a view to differentiating individuals who migr
 ated into the central Sahara during their own lifetimes from others of pot
 entially diverse ethnic composition who lived in the region for the durati
 on of the life course. We are also collaborating with colleagues at the Un
 iversity of Leicester to combine Garamantian biological and archaeological
  evidence to examine how these Saharan communities expressed their identit
 y through material culture\, burial ritual and funerary structures.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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