2:30 - 3:00pm
Symposium
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The Sahara in ancient written sources from the Phoenician and Greek periods (up to 650 CE)

The Sahara in ancient written sources (up to 650 CE)

Mohamed Tahar
History of the Sahara (to 650 CE)
2:30 - 3:00pm
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Abstract

    This presentation will examine Greek sources relating to accounts of Phoenician, Persian and Greek circumnavigations around the African continent and the Sahara desert. By contrasting the written sources with archaeological documentation on the coastal settlements of Morocco, it will ask what the ancients' experience and knowledge of the Sahara was. Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus in particular will be examined.

    Speaker(s)

    Mohamed Tahar

    University of Tunis, Tunisia

    Events

    History of the Sahara up to 650 AD - Presentation
    François-Xavier Fauvelle, Jean-Loïc Le Quellec et Ghislaine Lydon

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:05am
    Not recorded

    The Sahara : a paleo-environmental setting
    Aziz Ballouche

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:15am
    Not recorded

    Saharan rock art : state of the art
    Frédérique Duquesnoy

    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:15am
    Not recorded

    Physical anthropology : a critical review
    Scott MacEachern

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:15pm
    Not recorded

    Lithic monuments from the Sahara and Sahel (4th-1st millennium BC)
    Yves Gauthier

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm
    Not recorded

    Protohistoric and medieval tumuli and megaliths in the Sahel region
    Hamady Bocoum

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm
    Not recorded

    Prehistoric cultures in the Sahara as seen through mineral artefacts
    Latifa Sari

    Symposium
    3:15 - 3:45pm
    Not recorded

    Archaeology of material cultures : ceramics
    Friederike Jesse

    Symposium
    3:45 - 4:15pm
    Not recorded

    Zoological history of the Sahara
    Joséphine Lesur

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:15am
    Not recorded

    Floristic history of the Sahara
    Anne-Marie Lézine

    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:15am
    Not recorded

    Linguistic history of the Sahara
    Lameen Souag

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:15pm
    Not recorded

    Re-population in the early Holocene (12 000-5 000 AEC)
    Barbara E. Barich

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:45pm
    Not recorded

    The Sahara as a pastoral and agrarian space (from 5 000 to 1 500 BC)
    Jean-Loïc Le Quellec

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:45pm
    Not recorded

    Protohistory in the Sahara : chariots and metal
    Yves Gauthier

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:15am
    Not recorded

    The Sahara : an inscribed landscape
    Dominique Casajus

    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:15am
    Not recorded

    Oasis systems, mobility and trade in and across the Sahara (800 B.C.-650 A.D.)
    David Mattingly

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:15pm
    Not recorded

    The Egyptians and the Sahara : at the crossroads of sources
    Dominique Farout et Vincent Morel

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm
    Not recorded

    The Sahara in ancient written sources from the Phoenician and Greek periods (up to 650 CE)
    Mohamed Tahar

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm
    Not recorded

    The image of the Sahara in Roman artworks
    Thouraya Belkahia

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm
    Not recorded

    See also

    François-Xavier Fauvelle, chair History and Archaeology of African Worlds
    History of the Sahara (to 650 CE)