Book Review of Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond, edited by Martin Sterry and David J. Mattingly

Abstract

In the third and longest of four hefty volumes of the Trans-Saharan Archaeology project, an outgrowth and expansion of the work undertaken by Mattingly and his collaborators in the Garamantian Fazzan, Sterry, Mattingly, and 25 other contributors explore the history of urbanization in the broader Saharan region.