Farès Moussa
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Yes, good question.
And I think we probably need to rewind about 12,000 years to get a bit of context.
Don't worry, I'm not going to go through it step by step.
So we need to go to the end of the last ice age.
At that point, what seems to happen is that the Sahara Desert becomes this very, very fertile, savannah-like environment.
So you have to imagine lots of flora and fauna, and it's very abundant with springs and rivers and lakes.
a very abundant place where people also gathered following the flora and the fauna.
From about 6,500 years ago, you start to get this aridification, a gradual process which brings us to about 3,000 years ago when it brings us more or less to the kind of almost the level of hyper-aridity that we now know in the Sahara Desert.
And so during that process, during that time, people shrink fast.
from the various zones of the Sahara into those sorts of pockets which still remain relatively humid, like the Fezzan area or the Wadi al-Jal, as we call it, this area where the Garamantes ended up.
Kind of a broad, sort of dried-out riverbed.
To the north of that, you have a large sand sea.
And to the south of that, you have this high escarpment, sandstone escarpment, which rises quickly about 300 metres.
So it's a kind of a process of, if you like, refugia or people getting condensed into niches.
throughout the Sahara region.
And the Garamantes end up in this particular zone, about 200 kilometres in length, east to west.
Well, as you can imagine, doing archaeology in such a hostile environment, even today, presents its own challenges.
Once we're there, we normally have an idea about areas we want to target.
And after having done some remote sensing, using satellite images or whatever, about areas we want to target, we will normally...
do surveys on the ground.
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