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Crowfoot, Elisabeth

doi:10.1177/030751337906500112

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“…The greatest concentration of remains occurs in the period dated stratigraphically between the second and ninth centuries AD. In Africa cotton is first reliably identified in the Nubian Nile Valley. Several finds of Roman or Meroitic Nubian cotton cloth have been reported, from Karanog and Meroë (Crowfoot and Griffiths 1934); Qasr Ibrim (Crowfoot 1979;Crowfoot et al 1977), and several cemetery sites (Bergman 1975;Mayer-Thurman and Williams 1979). Cloth, seeds and capsules, some of which have been provisionally identified as G. herbaceum, have been recovered from Qasr Ibrm (Clapham and Rowley-Conwy 2007).…”

Section: Cottonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Garamantian agriculture: the plant remains from Jarma, Fazzan

Pelling¹

2008

Libyan stud.

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Excavations at Jarma, associated with the ancient capital of the Garamantes, Garama, in the Fazzan, southern Libya, have recovered a long sequence of charred and desiccated plant remains. The archaeobotanical analysis of the samples have provided an insight into the crop plants cultivated by the Garamantian period occupants of Jarma, and the nature of crop processing activities, plant use and disposal. A broad range of cereal, fruit and fibre crops have been identified which demonstrate both winter and summer season cultivation in the region from the end of the first millennium BC. A sophisticated arable regime relying on foggara irrigation was practised.

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Section: Cottonmentioning

confidence: 99%