Pastoral nomadism encompasses an array of specialized knowledge concerned with the
daily rhythms and long-term tempos of caring for herd animals in order to extract subsistence …

Almost a century of systematic anthropological research on pastoral nomads has produced
significant data and theory for understanding these mobile societies. Substantially less …

Nearly four decades have passed since an independent North African centre for cattle
domestication was first proposed in 1980, based on the Combined Prehistoric Expedition's …

Food production originated in various ways in different parts of the world. Plant
domestication with the adoption of agriculture has been successful in some areas, but not in …

New zoogeomorphological features discovered in dryland landscapes of Northern Africa
reflect human-animal agency since prehistory, and attest to complex, networked activities …

The purpose of this paper is to review the state of the environmental sciences in the Sahara
and to consider their wider relevance in a variety of contexts. In particular we focus on the …

The excavation at Takarkori rock shelter is part of a long-term study of Holocene cultural
dynamics in southwest Libya begun in the early 1990s. With a rich Holocene occupation, the …

Abstract Early Holocene foragers in North Africa provide unique responses to adaptational
patterns of non-agricultural societies and they can offer intriguing answers to questions …

The date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, has been a cornerstone of Middle Eastern and North
African agriculture for millennia. It was first domesticated in the Persian Gulf, and its …

We present preliminary results of an Earth observation approach for the study of past human
occupation and landscape reconstruction in the Central Sahara. This region includes a …