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Call for volunteers to join the Western Sahara Project. See the details and contact Dr Nick Brooks at http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/%7Ee118/wsahara.htm.
Society of Africanist Archaeologists: Field schools and fieldwork opportunities
Brass, M. 2007. Reconsidering the emergence of social complexity in early Saharan pastoral societies, 5000 - 2500 BC. Sahara 18: 1-16
Brass, M. 2003. Tracing the Origins of the Ancient Egyptian Cattle Cult. In Eyma, A. & Bennett, C. (eds.) A Delta-Man in Yebu: Occassional Volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum No. 1. Parkland: Universal Publishers, 101-110. (PDF onsite)
Field reports from the Western Sahara Project for 2006, 2005 and 2002.
Brooks, N. Cultural heritage and conflict: The threatened archaeology of Western Sahara. The Journal of North African Studies 304, 413-439. (PDF offsite)
Brooks, N. 2006. Cultural responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity. Quaternary International (PDF offsite).
Brooks, N., Di Lernia, S., Drake, N. Chiapello, I., Legrand, M., Moulin, C. and Prospero, J. 2005. The environment-society nexus in the Sahara from prehistoric times to the present day. The Journal of North African Studies 304, 253-292. (PDF offsite)
Brooks, N. 2004. Drought in the African Sahel: long-term perspectives and future prospects. Tyndall Centre Working Paper No. 61. (PDF offsite)
Brooks, N. 2004. Beyond collapse: the role of climatic desiccation in the emergence of complex societies in the middle Holocene. In Leroy, S. & Costa, P. (Eds.) Environmental Catastrophes in Mauritania, the Desert and the Coast. Abstract Volume and Field Guide. Mauritania, 4-18 January 2004. First Joint Meeting of ICSU Dark Nature and IGCP 490. (PDF offsite)
Anag, G., Di Lernia, S., Cremaschi, M. & Liverani, M. 2002.
Environment, archaeology, and oil. The Messak Settafet Rescue Operation (Libyan Sahara). African Archaeological Review 19 (2): 67-73. (PDF offsite)
Cremaschi, M. & Di Lernia, S. 1999.
Holocene climatic changes and cultural dynamics in Libyan Sahara. African Archaeological Review 16 (4): 211-238. (PDF offsite)
Cremaschi, M., Di Lernia, S. & Garcea, E. 1998.
Some Insights on the Aterian in the Libyan Sahara: Chronology, Environment and Archaeology. African Archaeological Review 15 (4): 261-286. (PDF offsite)
Di Lernia, S. 2001.
Dismantling dung: Delayed use of food resources among Early Holocene foragers of the Libyan Sahara. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19: 1-34. (PDF offsite)
Minozzi, S., Manzi, G., Ricci, F., di Lernia, S. & Borgognini Tarli, S.M. 2003.
Nonalimentary tooth use in prehistory: an Example from Early Holocene in Central Sahara (Uan Muhuggiag, Tadrart Acacus, Libya). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 120: 225-232. (PDF offsite)
Wendorf, F. & Schild, R. 1994. Are the Early Holocene Cattle in the Eastern Sahara Domestic or Wild? Evolutionary Anthropology 3, 118-128.
The Western Sahara Project The Fezzan Project: Geoarchaeology of the Sahara Italian-Libyan Archaeological Mission in the Acacus and Messak Society of Africanist Archaeologists