Places burial traditions at the centre of Saharan migrations and identity debate, with new technical data and methodological analysis.

Preface David J. Mattingly; 1. Burials, migration and identity: the view from the Sahara David J. Mattingly, Maria Carmela Gatto, Martin Sterry and Nick Ray; Part I. Burial Practices in the Central Sahara: 2. Dying to be Garamantian: burial, migration and identity in Fazzan David J. Mattingly, Martin Sterry and Nicholas Ray; 3. Identity markers in the South-Western Fazzan: were the people of the Tanezuft/Tadrart Akakus region Garamantes? Maria Carmela Gatto, Lucia Mori and Andrea Zerboni; 4. Human mobility and identity: variation, diet and migration in relation to the Garamantes of Fazzan Ronika K. Power, Efthymia Nikita, David J. Mattingly, Marta Mirazón Lahr and Tamsin C. O'Connell; 5. The Garamantes from Fewet (Ghat, Fazzan, Libya): a skeletal perspective Francesca Ricci, Mary Anne Tafuri, Francesca Castorina, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Lucia Mori and Giorgio Manzi; Part II. Looking East: 6. Between the Nile and the Sahara: some comparative perspectives David N. Edwards; 7. Isotopic approaches to mobility in Northern Africa: a bioarchaeological examination of Egyptian/Nubian interaction in the Nile Valley Michele R. Buzon, Sarah A. Schrader and Gabriel J. Bowen; Part III. Looking North: 8. Numidian burial practices Joan Sanmartí, Irene Cruz Folch, Jordi Campillo and David Montanero; 9. Revisiting first Millennium BC graves in North-West Morocco Emanuele Papi; Part IV. Looking West: 10. Protohistoric and pre-Islamic funerary archaeology in the Moroccan pre-Sahara Youssef Bokbot; 11. Burial practices in Western Sahara Joanne Clarke and Nick Brooks; Part V. Looking South: 12. Burial and society at Kissi, Burkina Faso Sonja Magnavita; 13. Burial practices, settlement and regional connections around the Southern Lake Chad Basin, 1500 BC-AD 1500 Scott MacEachern; Part VI. Linguistic Aspects of Migration and Identity: 14. The linguistic prehistory of the Sahara Roger Blench; 15. Berber peoples in the Sahara and North Africa: linguistic historical proposals Christopher Ehret; 16. The archaeological and genetic correlates of Amazight linguistics Elizabeth Fentress; 17. Concluding discussion Martin Sterry, David J. Mattingly, Maria Carmela Gatto and Nick Ray.