Sand, Stones, and Bones. The Archaeology of Death in The Wadi Tanezzuft Valley (5000-2000 bp), The Archaeology of Libyan Sahara Volume I

Foreword, Mario Liverani
Commentary, François Paris
Editorial Preface, Savino di Lernia and Giorgio Manzi
Acknowledgements

• The archaeology of death. Aspects, questions and problems in the Sahara, Savino di Lernia and Giorgio Manzi
• A territorial approach to the study area: landscape, geomorphology, and problems, Mauro Cremaschi and Savino di Lernia
• A historical background: mortuary archaeology in the Sahara between colonialism and modern research Sandra Sivilli
• A regional perspective: the surveys Savino di Lernia, Giovanni B. Bertolani, Roberto Castelli, Francesca Merighi and Augusto Palombini
• From regions to sites: the excavations Savino di Lernia, Francesca Merighi, Francesca Ricci and Sandra Sivilli
• Textiles and leather: raw materials and manufacture, Alfio Maspero, Silvia Bruni, Cristina Cattaneo and Annalisa Lovisolo
• Some information on archaeobotanical remains, Michela Cottini and Mauro Rottoli
• Archaeozoology of the funerary structures, Francesca Alhaique
• Stones, bones and other grave goods in a techno-functional perspective, Emanuela Cristiani and Cristina Lemorini
• The human skeletal remains: inventory and inferences, Francesca Ricci, Giorgio Manzi, Cinzia Fornai, Francesco Vecchi and Pietro Passarello
• Faces from the ancient Fezzan: a geometric morphometric approach, Emiliano Bruner, Francesca Ricci and Giorgio Manzi
• Skeletal markers of stress at Site 96/129, Belinda Arrighetti, Bruna Reale, Francesca Ricci and Silvana M. Borgognini Tarli
• Ancient DNA studies: first results, Carla Babalini, Cristina Martínez-Labarga, Jose Antonio Lorente, Miguel Lorente and Olga Rickards
• Cultural variability and human trajectories in later prehistory of the Wadi Tanezzuft, Savino di Lernia, Giorgio Manzi and Francesca Merighi
• Appendix I Description of the structures found during the Intensive Survey, Francesca Merighi, Roberto Castelli and Augusto Palombini
• Appendix II Photographic inventory of human remains

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