M Sterry Editor

M. C. Gatto is an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the University of Leicester specialising in the prehistoric and historic archaeology of the Nile Valley and the Sahara. D. J. Mattingly is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Leicester. He has worked in the Sahara for almost forty years and is the author of many books and articles related to Saharan archaeology, such as Farming the Desert (2 vols, 1996), which won the James R. Wiseman book award of the American Institute of Archaeology, and The Archaeology of Fazzan series (4 volumes, 2003–13). He was the PI of the European Research Council-funded Trans-Sahara Project (2011–17) which lies behind this volume and is overall series editor of Trans-Saharan Archaeology, in which it is the second of four projected volumes. N. Ray is an archaeologist who specialises in the Roman economy, consumption, and funerary archaeology in North Africa. He is the Assistant Director of the Oxford Roman Economy Project at the University of Oxford and previously worked as a Research Associate on the Trans-Sahara Project at the University of Leicester. He has co-edited several books, including De Africa Romaque (2016). M. Sterry is Assistant Professor in Roman Landscape Archaeology and GIS at the University of Durham. His research on the archaeology of the Sahara and North Africa makes particular use of GIS and remote sensing. He has undertaken fieldwork on various projects in Italy, Britain, Libya, and most recently southern Morocco, where he is co-director of the Middle Draa Project. He has published many articles on the Libyan Fazzan, Saharan trade, urbanization, and oasis settlements.