barbara E barich

Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Faculty Member

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“The painted desert. the rock art caves of Wadi Sura, Gilf Kebir, Egypt”

Presentazione die risultati del progetto interdisciplinare di studi delle Grotte di Wadi Sura, Egitt

Cultural adaptations in Libya From Upper Pleistocene to Early Holocene – Chronology and Stratigraphy from littoral to desert

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks, Oct 6, 2022

Within the huge Saharan territory, Libya represents a privileged observatory of the environmental... more Within the huge Saharan territory, Libya represents a privileged observatory of the environmental changes that have affected human occupation over millennia, both in the Pleistocene and in the Holocene. The available data also show the presence of different climatic trends between the southern Libyan territory in the Saharan area, and the coast overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. This paper considers the most recent data coming from the three main geographical and cultural contexts of Libya. First it describes the sequence reconstructed for the Tripolitanian plateau – the Jebel Gharbi – by the Sapienza University of Rome, and then compares it with the sequence from Haua Fteah, in the Jebel Akhdar, Cyrenaica, on the basis of the revision recently made by the Cambridge University’s investigation. The concordances between the two regions become most evident in the final Pleistocene and early Holocene with the Later Stone Age occupation, characterized by microlithic industry. This last phase allows us to extend the observation to the Saharan region, the Tadrart Akakus massif in particular, which has also been the subject of a long investigation by the Sapienza University of Rome. This region, which had experienced a long phase of abandonment due to the recurrent arid phases of the Pleistocene (MIS 4 and MIS 2), was reoccupied at the beginning of the Holocene (ca 11,500 cal. BP) with the re-establishment of the monsoon circulation, and witnessed an important cultural flowering. It is evident that the reoccupation of the Saharan area is due to successive arrivals of groups of different provenance. However, two main paths can be identified: a movement of populations from the north towards the previously deserted areas can be detected; an alternative idea is to focus on the movement of groups from the Saharo-Sudanese belt from the east (or southeast).

La missione archeologica italiana nell'oasi di Farafra : realtà e ruolo del deserto occidentale tra VII e VI millennio a.C

La missione archeologica italiana nell'oasi di Farafra : realtà e ruolo del deserto occidentale tra VII e VI millennio a.C., 2011

Libye préhistorique

Encyclopédie berbère, 2008

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“Dictionary on Saharan Prehistory”, organizzato nel contesto del Congresso Internazionale di Preistoria e protostoria, Forlì

Gli ultimi cacciatori e l'origine dei siti pastorali nel Jebel Gharbi (Libia)

Gli ultimi cacciatori e l'origine dei siti pastorali nel Jebel Gharbi (Libia), 2005

Atti della Giornata di studio Tra Il Sahara e il Mediterraneo. Il Jebel Gharbi (Libia) e l’archeo... more

“Cultural Heritage Management and Field-work methods in Africa”. III Workshop del Forum for African Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Roma 3-5 Dicembre, Università “La Sapienza”

International Journal of Conservation Science Preservation and Restoration of the Wadi Sura Caves in the Framework of the "Gilf Kebir National Park", Egypt

In 2010 the Italian-Egyptian Environmental Cooperation launched a safeguarding project for the pr... more In 2010 the Italian-Egyptian Environmental Cooperation launched a safeguarding project for the preservation of the caves with prehistoric rock art located in the Gilf Kebir plateau in southwestern Egypt. The project was part of the cooperation program developed to establish the Egyptian Gilf Kebir National Park (GKNP) protected area. Given their bad state of preservation, the Italian conservation project focused on the Caves of Swimmers and Archers, located along the Wadi Sura. Although only very few studies of this kind have been carried out in the Saharan region, our work in the Gilf Kebir can be considered a pilot study, the results of which should be evaluated in the long term. Results obtained to date and reported in this paper provide analytical petrographic studies of the bedrock, a complete photographic and geodetic survey of the two sites, data from climate monitoring, along with a preliminary consolidation of some of the most at-risk areas of the two caves. Finally, labora...

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Missione Archeologica Italiana Nell'Oasi DI Farafra (Egitto)

La Missione Archeologica dell'Università di Roma La Sapienza, co-diretta da B.E. Barich e Giu... more La Missione Archeologica dell'Università di Roma La Sapienza, co-diretta da B.E. Barich e Giulio Lucarini, attualmente l'unica missione preistorica italiana in Egitto, ha iniziato ad operare nell'Oasi di Farafra nel 1987 e, attraverso diciotto campagne sul terreno, ha offerto importanti contributi al tema delle relazioni tra le culture del Deserto e la Valle del Nilo. Farafra è, insieme a Bahariya, Dakhla e Kharga, una delle oasi che caratterizzano il Deserto Occidentale Egiziano. La ricostruzione del processo economico che si compì nel territorio dell'oasi, con la trasformazione fondamentale da un modello di caccia-raccolta verso prime forme di orticoltura e di domesticazione animale, rappresenta il tema centrale della missione. I dati della ricerca sul campo vengono studiati in riferimento alle società nilotiche che svilupparono le prime forme di agricoltura durante le fasi culturali di Badari e Naqada (V-IV millennio a.C.)