a proposito di Libia...ILLUSTRAZIONE ITALIANA anno 2 numero 1 costo 7,90 .... ecco un po' di foto e chiacchiere di quando siamo andati in Libia nei primi anni del '900, ... curiosi anche i mezzi Fiat di quel tempo!!... be' un po' di storia a volte fa bene...
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Su National Geographic di Gennaio un articolo sulla depressione dell'Afar

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A rock-art representation of domesticated cattle is between 5,000 and 8,000 years old, from the Wadi Imha in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains of the Libyan Sahara. Similar images — some of which even include scenes of milking — are widely distributed in the region and suggest that cattle played a big part in the lives of ancient humans in the 'Green' Sahara during the Holocene. Rock art is notoriously difficult to date. However, using isotope analysis of absorbed food residues in pottery excavated from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Libyan Sahara by the Archaeological Mission of the Sapienza University of Rome, Julie Dunne and colleagues report the first unequivocal chemical evidence of dairying in the archaeological record, in prehistoric Africa in the fifth millennium BC. These findings confirm that domesticated cattle, and a dairying economy, were part of early Saharan pastoralism. (Photo: Roberto Ceccacci, Sapienza Univ.)