Demonstrates that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought, with trade an essential linking element.

Examines key technological innovations, knowledge transfer, connectivity and social meaning in the ancient and Medieval Sahara.

This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.

The ancient Sahara has often been treated as a periphery or barrier, but this agenda-setting book – the final volume of the Trans-Saharan Archaeology Series �

Places burial traditions at the centre of Saharan migrations and identity debate, with new technical data and methodological analysis.