Looking West

Part IV - Looking West

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2019

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N. Ray and

M. C. Gatto: Affiliation:
University of Leicester
D. J. Mattingly: Affiliation:
University of Leicester
N. Ray: Affiliation:
University of Oxford
M. Sterry: Affiliation:
University of Durham

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Despite more than 150 years of archaeological research in the Maghrib and the Sahara, it is still difficult to establish a universally accepted chronological framework for Moroccan protohistory. While it is generally agreed that its beginning corresponds with the appearance of metal objects around the start of the third millennium BC, its end is much more imprecise, vague and uncertain. The Mediterranean littoral and its hinterland first entered written history around the eighth century BC, at the date of the earliest evidence for a Phoenician presence. However, the other continental regions of Morocco were not part of this schema. These areas were at the margins of ancient knowledge. During the centuries of the ‘Phoenician presence’, only the urban centres changed their character; the countryside, on the other hand, retained a protohistoric lifestyle.

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Information: Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond , pp. 313 - 372

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108634311 [Opens in a new window]

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