Etnoarcheologia: pensieri e prospettive dal Sahara

This paper aims at developing some themes related to a new vision of the discipline, focussing on the Sahara. A concise introduction provides an overview of some challenging issues of ethnoarchaeology, with special reference to the African one. Two paths are therein discussed. Oriented toward the intangible and tangible aspects of the ethnographic present, they belong to the same perspective, i.e. the realization of a more stable and effective ethnoarchaeology. This method can offer an actual support to the archaeological and anthropological sciences. By this approach ethnoarchaeology can enter the domain of development strategies elaborated for the Sahara and the arid zones, almost ruled by a reductionist and rationalist view, based upon biophysical sciences.