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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Most frequently in English language usage, the term Sahrawi ("Saharaui") is usually used in reference to populations from the disputed Western Sahara territory, sometimes with a nationalist connotation.The term Moor can refer to a collection of Hassaniya Arabic speaking tribes, of Arab-Berber and pure Berber/Tuareg heritage, mainly living in southern Morocco, Mauritania, western Algeria, Mali (ca. 100,000)and surrounding territories. These tribes are, in English speaking countries, sometimes called Moors and share the same population characteristics: Hassaniya-speaking and to a large extent descendants of nomad Arabic speaking Bedouins mixed with the historical Berber populations. They form a large, but not the only, part of the population of countries in the area of the Western Sahara. ... Read more

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The Eastern Sahara is a truly fascinating place to studyprehistory; despite the impression of a hostile environment,widespread and abundant archaelogical evidence suggest that the areawas not always a lifeless desert. This monumental volume deals withthe Halocene stratigraphy and archaeology of Nabta Playa, perhaps thelargest of the deflaltional basins found in the region and oneespecially rich in archaeological remains documenting past humanpresence. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Exerpt of review from Journal of Anthropological Research
`[...] contains a marvelous range of information on many aspects of life in the Holocene of the eastern Sahara. The publication is of a very high standard - well finishes and proofread - and should grace the shelves of Saharanists, as well as any university library where African history is taught.'

Journal of Anthropological Research, 59 (2003)

Review from Antiquity, 77:297 (September 2003)
`[...] it is important to stress the objective contribution that these volumes make to the prehistory of the eastern Sahara. They are extremely well produced, with ample illustrations and statistics, and no detail is spared in the description of habitation sites and small finds. Volumes 1 and 2 of Nabta Playa are a superb addition to the prehistory of the eastern Sahara.'

Antiquity, 77:297 (September 2003)

Review from The Holocene, 13:2 (2003)
`The Archaeology of Nabta Playa is truly an opus magnus; it is not a casual read, and it will be cited for years to come. As a valuable reference work written for interested experts, it will be of most interest to those who share similar regional and topical foci. This book is thorougly and unequivocally recommended for students of African prehistory... In terms of value for money, however, this work speaks volumes.' ... Read more

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“Islam and the Muslim World” will help people understand the fastest growing religion in the United States and the dominant religion in a wide area of the rest of the world. This informative and interesting new encyclopedia explores an increasingly important force in the modern world, looking at Islam's role in the modern world, in the context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries, and contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, and more, filling a need in this key area of religious studies and serving as a resource for those eager to become better informed.

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The ceramic assemblages from the Nabta Playa and Bir Kiseiba area have played an important role in recognizing and defining the cultural sequence in the Egyptian Western desert. The exploration of the desert sites has yielded a ceramic chronology for the area that reaches back 6000 years to the earliest discovered pottery.
By taking a comprehensive approach to ceramic analysis, researchers were able to categorize pottery by scheme, construction, and distribution. This methodology allows for:

• describing the types of pottery uncovered;
• discussing the attempts at sourcing pottery;
• highlighting new methods of identifying types of pottery; and
• detailing the distribution of the various types from that region.