Old Tuareg Earrings - Tanit - Mali / Niger

Description

Old Tuareg Earrings
– Tanit -
Algeria
1970'
- Silver, glass beads gr. 14,0
(0
.49 oz
); cm. 6,5 high x cm. 4,4 width (2.56" x 1.73").
The Tuareg people inhabit a large area, covering almost all the middle and western
Sahara
and the north-central
Sahel
. They are probably descended from the ancient Libyan people of the kingdom of the
Garamantes
, described by
Herodotus
.
Tuareg are mostly nomads. For over two millennia, they operated the
trans-Saharan caravan trade
connecting the great cities on the southern edge of the Sahara via five desert trade routes to the northern coast of Africa (Mediterranean).
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