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17 - Concluding Discussion

from Part VI - Linguistic Aspects of Migration and Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2019

By
Martin Sterry ,
David J. Mattingly ,
Maria Carmela Gatto  and
Nick Ray
Edited by
M. C. Gatto ,
D. J. Mattingly ,
N. Ray  and
M. Sterry
M. C. Gatto
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
D. J. Mattingly
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
N. Ray
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
M. Sterry
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

At the start of this volume, we outlined three main themes: burial archaeology, migration and identity. In this concluding chapter, we revisit these themes in light of the varied case studies and examples explored in this book.

We believe this volume illustrates that there is irrefutable evidence of links and connections that serve to define a Trans-Saharan zone at an early date. Migration and mobility created networks of connectivity and elements of a shared culture (koine).

Berber languages are still spoken across large swathes of the Sahara today and Ehret and Blench in their chapters both argue that this was even more pronounced in the past, albeit they propose quite different reconstructions as to when and how Berber migration occurred.Ehret’s analysis of the family of Berber languages and his ordering of these in relative chronology, in terms of degrees of similarity and difference, is an important contribution.

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Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond , pp. 525 - 548
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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