Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

About

Martin Sterry is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Durham. His research on the archaeology of the Sahara and North Africa makes particular use of GIS and remote sensing. He has undertaken fieldwork on various projects in Italy Britain Libya and most recently southern Morocco where he is co-director of the Middle Draa Project. He has published many articles on the Libyan Fazzan Saharan trade urbanisation and oasis settlements. David J. Mattingly is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Leicester. He has worked in the Sahara for forty years and is the author of many books and articles related to Saharan archaeology such as Farming the Desert (2 volumes 1996) which won the James R. Wiseman book award of the American Institute of Archaeology and The Archaeology of Fazzan series (4 volumes 20032013). He was the principal investigator of the European Research Council-funded Trans-SAHARA Project (20112017) which created the groundwork for this volume and he is the overall series editor of Trans-Saharan Archaeology in which this is the third of four projected volumes.