The Fezzan project: geoarchaeology of the Sahara

The Fezzan project: geoarchaeology of the Sahara
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~e118/Fezzan/fezzan_home.html

" This website describes the "Fezzan Project" - a
collaborative investigation of environmental change and
human occupation of the Fezzan region of the Sahara in
southwestern Libya. It involved archaeologists,
geomorphologists, experts in climatic and environmental
change and in remote sensing, who explored the town of
Old Germa, the capital town of the Garamantean
civilisation (500 BC to 500 AD). The site is easy to
navigate and is of interest to students of archaeology,
Libyan or North African studies or those interested in
geomorphology and climatic and environmental change.
The website is divided into sections according to
discipline. Areas are dedicated to Geomorphology
(Palaeolakes, duricrusts, sand seas and other features
are described here), Palaeoclimate and environment (from
Late Pleistocene to Late Holocene), the use of remote
sensing and recent environmental change. There is the
facility to email the project with questions and links are
provided to the home pages of the people involved in the
project. Professional photographs of the project greatly
enhance the site, and there is an excellent page of links
to Web Sites on: African rock art; Saharan archaeology;
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); funding bodies; and
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) among other subjects. "

[Intute 2003]


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