DMP X

Survey and Landscape Conservation Issues around the Tāqallit headland

Bibliographic Data

ID9309510
AuthorsDavid Mattingly (0000-0003-1862-8392, University of Leicester, corresponding author), Salah al-Aghab (University of Tripoli), Muftah Ahmed (University of Tripoli), Farès Moussa (0009-0001-3587-3210, University of Edinburgh), Martin Sterry (0000-0002-4863-7735, University of Leicester), Andrew Wilson (0000-0002-9814-5966, University of Oxford), Franca Cole (University of Cambridge), Victoria Leitch (University of Oxford), Anita Radini (0000-0002-2099-2639, University of Leicester), Toby Savage (University of Leicester), Katia Schörle (0000-0001-7741-0233, Oxford Archaeology), Djuke Veldhuis (0000-0001-9430-5750, University of Cambridge)
Year2010
Volume41
Pages105-132
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLibyan Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7189 • E-ISSN: 2052-6148
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0263718900000297
OpenAlexW2206720379
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited8

Survey by the DMP Burials and Identity team around the Tāqallit headland in 2009–2010 has revealed in exceptional detail a well-preserved Garamantian landscape, comprising extensive cemeteries, foggara irrigation systems and numerous oasis settlements. However, this remarkable survival of the Garamantian landscape was found in 2010 to be under direct and imminent threat of destruction. This report describes the landscape features recorded and the steps taken to try to preserve the evidence from obliteration in the face of modern agricultural development. Important new information was recorded about the date and furnishing of some key types of Proto-Urban tombs, linking with a refined view of the relationship of these cemeteries to contemporary foggara construction and the creation of pioneer farming settlement in the Tāqallit region. Significant additional details of the foggara systems were recorded through a combination of satellite image interpretation, surface observation and selective descent into rock-cut shafts. The discovery of an unexpected number of ancient settlements and structures of Garamantian date represents another major achievement of the work. The composite picture of the Garamantian landscape encompassing cemeteries, foggaras and settlements is arguably the most complete yet recorded in the FP/DMP work

Archaeology · Geography · Headland · Human settlement · Interpretation (philosophy · Settlement (finance · Shore · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Computer Science · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Geology