Böcker i Trans-Saharan Archaeology-serien

The Sahara was a more connected space in the pre-Islamic period than hitherto believed, with trade an essential linking element. A team of experts examine new evidence pertaining to the earliest trade contacts across this vast desert landscape, highlighting the importance of textiles alongside gold, slaves and salt.

An agenda-setting volume providing a new base-line of knowledge and understanding of the related processes of sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara and its neighbouring regions. Calls into question older views about limited pre-Islamic oasis development and scepticism about the existence of towns and states.