Beschreibung
Agricultural work processes and the know-how belonging to them testify to the ancient roots that the material culture of sedentary groups in the Tassili n’Ajjer may have. Close links between these groups and the Garamantes on the one hand and the Mediterranean civilizations on the other are becoming increasingly probable. Two central ideas can always be retrieved: firstly, it is significant that this knowledge and know-how is very old and deeply rooted in the local. Secondly, there is a striking similarity in the way ownership of land and political power are both passed down through the female line. Both ideas have a strong connection to the local, a concept that will is central to this research.
This publication is part of the project `An African History of Knowledge and Science beyond Academic Conventions’, which was carried out at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science from 2022 to 2024. See: https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/african-history-knowledge-and-science-beyond-academic-conventions