Sahara centro-orientale Dalla Prehistoria ai tempi dei nomadi Tubus [Paperback]

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. In Italian with English summaries.This volume provides an overview of the prehistory and history of the East-Central Sahara, an area of desert comprising parts of southern Libya, Chad and Niger. Prehistoric finds from the region consist of a range of lithic finds, and there are more than 25,000 examples of rock-art. The region is also home to numerous pre-Islamic stone structures.