Garamantes
General entry on the Garamantes, which underlines their role in developing the earliest state formation in the heart of the Libyan Sahara, from the 1st millennium BCE to the 5th century AD.
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Identity markers in South-Western Fazzan. Where the people of the Wadi Tanezzuft/Tadrart Akakus region Garamantes?
The chapter presents Garamantian mortuary landscapes of Southern Fazzan (Libyan Sahara), in comparison with data from Karma, in order to investigate the similarities and differences form the two areas. The identity of the ancient Garamantes are discussed on the bases of the most recent archaeological data.
Searching for the Garamantian emerald. Reconsidering the green-colored stone beads trade in the ancient Sahara
In the current literature, Saharan green-colored stone beads are identified with the term ´emeraude garamantique, while
several archaeological investigations on Garamantian contexts referred to them as amazonite. Moreover, according to the
hypothesis proposed by Monod, authors identify the only source of amazonite to be the pegmatite swarm at Eghei Zuma