BELIEFS AND CURIOSITIES · 02

Houses, food and repairs

Seeds, hearths and pottery allow knowledge of the food and tasks of houses and fields.

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Contextual detail of Wheat, barley, dates, vine and fig before the major system, associated with the card Houses, food and repair — **DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS**
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Declared visual reconstruction; not a photograph of the original nor documentary evidence.

History and context

Houses, seeds, pottery and canals bring repeated activities closer that classical sources barely describe.

Urban and agricultural life coexisted with regional mobility; no single house or diet represents the entire Fezzan population.

Evidence and interpretation

Documented fact: Excavated contexts at Zinchecra, Jarma and Saniat Jibril preserve domestic installations, plant remains and vessels. Interpretation and caution: Do not fill the gaps with a Roman domestic scene nor assume that imported goods dominated everyday consumption.

Catalogue facts

Scope: Houses, food and repairs
Culture: Garamantes of Fezzan
Reference part: Wheat, barley, dates, vines and figs before the great system
Reading: Fact and interpretation are presented on separate layers

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: September 5, 2026.

Processing a harvest leaves different residues

The archaeobotanical study of Jarma investigates not only what crops existed, but how they were processed, used and discarded. The remains of cereals, fruits and fibre plants come from a sequence of carbonised and desiccated materials. These categories allow approaching tasks distinct from sowing: separating usable parts, preparing products and removing residues. An accumulation of seeds gains meaning when related to its place of deposit and with other plants in the assemblage. Thus, daily life can be studied through small differences that a species inventory alone does not explain.

Research · Ruth Pelling · Garamantian agriculture: the plant remains from Jarma, Fazzan (2008)Access recorded: September 5, 2026.

Location and territory

REGIONAL AREA

Fezzan Oases and trans-Saharan corridors; changing network, not fixed frontierFezzan Oases and trans-Saharan corridors; changing network, not fixed frontier. The footprint indicates the orientative centre of the area, not a frontier nor an exact point.

Sources and references

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