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| Title: | The Camel in Roman North Africa and the Sahara: history, biology, and human economy |
| Author: | Shaw, Brent D. |
| Year: | 1979 |
| Periodical: | Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Série B: Sciences humaines |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 663-721 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Northern Africa Sahara |
| Subject: | camels |
| Abstract: | Table of contents: Summary & résumé - The problematic - The historiographical origins of the introductionalist hypothesis - Origins of the camel: the dromedary in North African prehistory - The camel in history: the silence of the sources - Biology and history: the physiology of the Camelus dromedaris - The camel in war: military frontiers and the end of Roman Africa. Notes, fig., chart, app. |