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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Old Doctore: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundjata: [qb] Alternatively, can it be ruled out that this could be related to a segment of the Garamante/Turareg living in fortified towns to repel marauding nomads? It's entertainable (sic) but given the nomadic nature of the Tuareg themselves and the history of sedentism among the Kanuri, as well as a traceable continuity in statecraft among the Kanuri after the abandonment of Djado, I prefer to see them as likely being responsible for this. [/qb][/QUOTE]Is there any concrete evidence that the Tuareg are directly descended from the Garamente of the Libyan Fezzan? Tuaregs are relatively recent to the region (Western Sudan). Being the descendants of Berber speaking southern Moroccans that migrated south and southwest. The Western Saharan and Mauritanian "Moors" are descended from the same Berber speaking population. Only difference being that the latter group was eventually Arabnized. These two Berber groups would have had then absorbed the indigenous Niger-Kordofanian and Nilo-Saharan populations in the region. Tuaregs are also only found along the Algerian border of Libya. http://www1.american.edu/ted/ice/images4/tuareg_map.gif The traditional inhabitants of the Fezzan and southern Libya in general are Toubou/Nilo-Saharan speaking. The Toubou currently make-up of 18% of the Libyan population. So logically imo, it's the Toubou and other similar groups that share a link with the ancient Garamente. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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