Broodbank, Cyprian;
Lucarini, Giulio;
Bokbot, Youssef;
Benattia, Hamza;
Bigoulimen, Aicha;
Farr, Lucy;
Garcia-Molsosa, Arnau;
... Wilkinson, Toby; + view all
(2024)
Oued Beht, Morocco: a complex early farming society in north-west Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory.
Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology
10.15184/aqy.2024.101.
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Abstract
The Maghreb (north-west Africa) played an important role during the Palaeolithic and later in connecting the western Mediterranean from the Phoenician to Islamic periods. Yet, knowledge of its later prehistory is limited, particularly between c. 4000 and 1000 BC. Here, the authors present the first results of investigations at Oued Beht, Morocco, revealing a hitherto unknown farming society dated to c. 3400-2900 BC. This is currently the earliest and largest agricultural complex in Africa beyond the Nile corridor. Pottery and lithics, together with numerous pits, point to a community that brings the Maghreb into dialogue with contemporaneous wider western Mediterranean developments.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Oued Beht, Morocco: a complex early farming society in north-west Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2024.101 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.101 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Antiquity 2024 page 1 of 20 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.101 |
Keywords: | Anthropology, Archaeology, connectivity, farming, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Maghreb, Mediterranean, Neolithic, Science & Technology, Social Sciences, storage pits |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197664 |
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