Martin Sterry

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that without the development of trans-Saharan trade, these complex oasis communities would have been unsustainable, and their subsequent economic fortunes were directly linked to the fluctuating scale and direction of that trade.

TL;DR: The Desert Migrations Project as mentioned in this paper is a new interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional collaborative project between the Society for Libyan Studies and the Department of Antiquities to address the theme of migration in the broadest sense, encompassing the movement of people, ideas/knowledge and material culture into and out of Fazzan.

TL;DR: The Burials and Identity team of the Desert Migrations Project carried out two main excavations in the 2009 season, at the monumental Garamantian cemeteries of TAG001 and TAG012, by the Taqallit headland.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used satellite imagery and historic aerial photographs to discover and interpret archaeological sites and created an open access database of archaeological records that provides basic information so that the sites can be better understood and preserved in the future.

TL;DR: A detailed consideration of the relevant historical and archaeological data, together with new AMS radiocarbon dates from several key monuments at Zuwīla in southwestern Libya is presented in this paper.