Vivre, circuler et échanger sur la bordure septentrionale du Sahara

This book is the result of the second and third international symposium organized by the Partnership Hubert Curien Maghreb “DESERT: the Southern border of the Maghreb in Antiquity and Middle Ages, space of boundaries and territory of exchanges” (multi-year program of the Casa de Velázquez). Following the first volume resulting from the discussion initiated on the notion of border - political, climatic, ecological - on the southern edge of the pre-modern Maghreb, this collection proposes, in the continuity of the reflection, to take a new look at the specificities of human occupation on the borders of the pre-desert and the Sahara, questioning its implications both in terms of human settlement and exchanges, between Antiquity and modern times. Many gray areas still surround the development of human occupation on the borders of northern Africa and on the northern edge of the Sahara, and the induced exchanges between communities, across the Sahara. Studies published in this book, that cross the results of recent archaeological missions, from Morocco to Libya, and the rereading of textual data, confirm the necessary revision of old paradigms, and the opportunity of new investigations.