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Research Objectives, Materials and Methods

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The purpose of this chapter is to outline the goals of this project, its research questions and its theoretical foundation. In this section, I address some theoretical and methodological issues related to pastoralism and to the archaeology of nomadism in arid lands.

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Biagetti, S. (2014). Research Objectives, Materials and Methods. In: Ethnoarchaeology of the Kel Tadrart Tuareg. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08530-2_1

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