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Forum: Environment, Archaeology, and Oil: The Messak Settafet Rescue Operation (Libyan Sahara)

Forum: Environment, Archaeology, and Oil: The Messak Settafet Rescue Operation (Libyan Sahara) P1: GDX/LCT P2: GCR/GCY QC: African Archaeological Review [aar] pp480-aarr-373029 May 1, 2002 10:19 Style file version Nov. 19th, 1999 ° C African Archaeological Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2002 ( 2002) Forum Environment, Archaeology, and Oil: The Messak Settafet Rescue Operation (Libyan Sahara) 1 2 3;4 Giuma Anag, Mauro Cremaschi, Savino di Lernia, and Mario Liverani THE MESSAK SETTAFET PLATEAU, AN ENDLESS MINE FOR HUMAN ACTIVITIES Looking at the satellite images of Central Sahara, anyone would be amazed by a large, heavily black region: it is the Messak (or Amsach, in Tamasheq) Settafet Plateau, part of the Hamada of Murzuq (Fig. 1). Unfortunately, insuffi- cient knowledge of this area exists in the archaeological literature. The region was already well known in the mid-nineteenth century, when Heinrich Barth crossed wadi Mathendousc, in the southern fringes of the plateau, and discovered the first rock engravings of the area (Barth, 1857). Decades after that pioneering and isolated journey, this rugged landscape was closely studied by rock art scholars (e.g., Graziosi, 1942; Le Quelleq, 1998; Lutz and Lutz, 1995; Van Albada and Van Albada, 2000), but little attention has been paid to the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological features of the region (e.g., http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Archaeological Review Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2002 by Plenum Publishing Corporation
Subject
Social Sciences; Archaeology; Anthropology; Regional and Cultural Studies
ISSN
0263-0338
eISSN
1572-9842
DOI
10.1023/A:1015473709731
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P1: GDX/LCT P2: GCR/GCY QC: African Archaeological Review [aar] pp480-aarr-373029 May 1, 2002 10:19 Style file version Nov. 19th, 1999 ° C African Archaeological Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2002 ( 2002) Forum Environment, Archaeology, and Oil: The Messak Settafet Rescue Operation (Libyan Sahara) 1 2 3;4 Giuma Anag, Mauro Cremaschi, Savino di Lernia, and Mario Liverani THE MESSAK SETTAFET PLATEAU, AN ENDLESS MINE FOR HUMAN ACTIVITIES Looking at the satellite images of Central Sahara, anyone would be amazed by a large, heavily black region: it is the Messak (or Amsach, in Tamasheq) Settafet Plateau, part of the Hamada of Murzuq (Fig. 1). Unfortunately, insuffi- cient knowledge of this area exists in the archaeological literature. The region was already well known in the mid-nineteenth century, when Heinrich Barth crossed wadi Mathendousc, in the southern fringes of the plateau, and discovered the first rock engravings of the area (Barth, 1857). Decades after that pioneering and isolated journey, this rugged landscape was closely studied by rock art scholars (e.g., Graziosi, 1942; Le Quelleq, 1998; Lutz and Lutz, 1995; Van Albada and Van Albada, 2000), but little attention has been paid to the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological features of the region (e.g.,

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