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Oued Beht, Morocco: a complex early farming society in north-west Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory

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. Green open access

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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
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
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197664
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