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Table des matières
- Preface
- 1: The Desert, the Rivers and the Ocean
- 2: The Long Beginning
- 3: Domesticating the Land: 6500-1000 BC
- 4: Creating Connectivities: 1000-140 BC
- 5: The Impact of Empire: 140 BC-AD 400
- 6: An End and a Beginning: AD 400- 760
- 7: Emerging States: AD 760-1150
- 8: Widening Horizons: AD 1150-1400
- 9: Africa and the World: AD1400-1600
- 10: Retrospect and Prospect
A propos de l'auteur
Barry Cunliffe taught archaeology in the Universities of Bristol and Southampton and was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2008, thereafter becoming Emeritus Professor. He has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne, Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) and in the Channel Islands, Brittany, and Spain, and has been President of the Council for British Archaeology and of the Society of Antiquaries, a Governor of the Museum of London, and a Trustee of the British Museum. He was a Commissioner of English Heritage from 2005 to 2013. His many publications include The Ancient Celts (1997, second edition 2018), Facing the Ocean (2001), The Druids: A Very Short Introduction (2010), Britain Begins (2012), By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean (2015), and The Scythians (2019) all published by Oxford University Press. He received a knighthood in 2006.
Résumé
Northern Africa is dominated now by the Sahara Desert, stretching across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This book is about the people who lived around the edges of the Desert and the different ways in which they responded to its challenges, establishing networks of communication across its expanse.
Texte suppl.
A masterful account of the desert and the peoples both to the north and to the south.
