Modern technology creates ancient desert maps

Geographic information systems (GISs) and Earth observation (EO) have helped map human settlement over 5 000 years across a large area of the Sahara Desert.

Pastoral dispersion and settlement of indigenous peoples and nomadic tribes offers important insight into how communities grew and gave birth to collective identities. One case where this is true is in north Africa’s Sahara Desert, across which the Tuareg people had dispersed over the last few thousand years.

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