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Ethnoarchaeological Suggestions for a Review of the Last 3,000 Years in the Tadrart Acacus

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This brief chapter looks at a slightly deeper time frame, one not alien to the current climate of the Tadrart Acacus, and aims at paving the way for an ethnoarchaeologically informed review of the historical landscape of the Tadrart Acacus.

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Biagetti, S. (2014). Ethnoarchaeological Suggestions for a Review of the Last 3,000 Years in the Tadrart Acacus. In: Ethnoarchaeology of the Kel Tadrart Tuareg. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08530-2_7

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