Desert Solitude: The Evolution of Ideologies Among Pastoralists and Hunter-Gatherers in Arid North Africa

Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 261-275

  Smith, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cultural properties; Desert solitude; Hoggar mountains; Middle pastoral period; Saharan nomads

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655168793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774632.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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