Il Sahara centro-orientale Dalla Preistoria ai tempi dei nomadi Tubu / The Central-Oriental Sahara. From Prehistory to the times of the nomadic Tubus

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The Tubus are a diversified pastoral nomadic people who speak two very similar dialects and form a single cultural community, extending from the Fezzan and the Kufra oasis in Southern Lybia, to the Tibesti and Ennedi mountains, to other Saharan and Sahelian territories of the Republic of Tchad, and to the eastern part of the Republic of Niger. The Tubus are now present in territories where Neolithic people left – for many thousands of years – an important number of traces of their life: tools, wall engravings and paintings, and stone monuments of the sort generally defined as 'pre-Islamic'. This study investigates the background, history and culture of these people from their origins to the present day. with English summaries and photographs by Harry Proto. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph INDICE - INDEX 1 – INTRODUZIONE / FOREWORD 2 – DOCUMENTI DELLA PREISTORIA DEL TERRITORIO TUBU /PREHISTORY 3 – LE NOTIZIE STORICHE E LE TRADIZIONI /HISTORY AND TRADITIONS 4 – I LUOGHI E GLI ABITANTI / REGIONS AND INHABITANTS 5 – L’INDIVIDUO E LA VITA MATERIALE – MATERIAL LIFE 6 – LA VITA FAMIGLIARE / FAMILY LIFE 7 – LA VITA SOCIALE – SOCIAL LIFE 8 – LE STRUTTURE DELLA SOCIETÀ / THE SOCIETY 9 – SITUAZIONI LOCALI ED OCCUPAZIONE COLONIALE /LOCAL SITUATIONS, COLONIAL OCCUPATION, RECENT HISTORY 10 – CONCLUSIONI: LE ORIGINI E IL FUTURO /CONCLUSIONS: ORIGINS AND FUTURE BIBLIOGRAFIA / BIBLIOGRAPHY CAMBRIDGE MONOGRAPHS IN AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY